i always post my blog on facebook and then copy/paste it onto here. i really don't like the formatting options on tribe (there are none) and i'm finding the process tedious, so i've decided to only post on facebook. to all who have read my blog and enjoy it, with all of your kind compliments and emails, thanks! .. and if you'd like to continue reading, you can look me up on facebook (swimmingtyger@gmail.com) and add me as a friend.

ciao!

it's funny, but you never really get something until you get it. you can have the tools in your pocket for years, you probably even understand on an intellectual level how to use them and why you should. but until you have that gut knowing that comes filtering down slow into your being like sand in an hourglass, filling you, perhaps you don't have the solidity, the density of being, to fully apply those things to your life and watch the miracles sprout up like seedlings.

when i was a kid,... read more

a few nights ago, as i was driving to school, i had an interesting experience.
i was on 75th, a four lane road, and i was in the left lane. i saw ahead of me that someone had slowed to a stop, and my instant perception was that he was taking a left, a common occurrence on that road; someone slows in the left lane and you get in the right and go around him. i did so, changing lanes, and as i was about to pass him i saw that there was a jogger on the opposite curb that he had stopped for. as ... read more

...that didn't even end in sex.

i've been busy busy busy these days. writing and revising papers, not even able to scratch out any writing of my own. getting out and meeting people, lured by the sun like an animal out of it's burrow. running many hours a week at this point in my training. getting up early to fit in my exercise regime and my spiritual practice. working, working, always working. keeping it all together.
i decided last week that i needed to be near the ocean, a place of heal... read more

i woke this morning with an intense desire to begin writing fiction again. when we use our imaginations, we create other worlds and the creatures who inhabit them, beings with personalities, desires, motives. they live in and are shaped by the people who read them; they exert a presence in the world that is sometimes more powerful and lasting than those of the living. when i woke today, i could feel those characters grasping at me from the great white abyss, the tendrils of their fingers wrap... read more