Continuing my journey through the work of Pema Chodron, I started reading about the 6 paramitas of life and was thinking about how we could
Category: Reality
The reality of addiction
Yesterday evening, watching the news, I noticed a promo announcing a special report on drugs for the following day. Some of the “highlights” of this
From educating to learning
Everyone is sitting in this huge room, talking about how school MUST be re-invented, how schools were not made for learning, they were made of
The Games People Play
Traveling to San Francisco today I witnessed a fascinating strategy airlines employ to turn us from “the customer is always right” travelers into “OMG I
‘Tis the Season …
The amount of ads pushing messages of “jolly holidays” and happy families around the blissful Christmas tree or in front of scrumptious meals, the exponential
Mind Shift
When depression rolls around just like Harry Potter’s dementors, sucking all joy and light out of our souls, all the judges around us start assuming that you are displeased with your life. Truth is, it has nothing to do with that sometimes. Depression is an illness. It ebbs and flows. I wonder why when diabetes strikes people say “take your meds” and not “oh just think good thoughts and it will go away”
