Hi everyone: Well, I woke up this morning tired and hungry (or “hangry,” as my daughter says) and googled this phrase: “Ken Wapnick scarcity.” To my surprise, the first thing that came up was an interview I had originally done with Ken in 2012 entitled “Be Gentle with Yourself.” https://www.google.com/search?q=Ken+wapnick+scarcity&oq=Ken+wapnick+scarcity&aqs=chrome..69i57.5039j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Gentleness, especially with the puny […]
Being Normal in an Abnormal World
Hi everybody and a happy 2019 to all! My calendar and perennial To-Do list is already filled with so many tasks but fortunately our purpose remains the same: to make practicing true forgiveness the most important thing in our so-called lives! Our beloved teacher Ken Wapnick recommended this approach and elaborated on what he meant […]
The Quiet Center
I sat at my desk on yet another Monday morning of no apparent forward movement on selling our house. Struggling to embrace the holding pattern I found myself inexplicably locked into as a classroom in true forgiveness. Rather than yet another self-crafted prison of punishment for the forgotten crime of separation from our source, the […]
Homeless, the ego seeks
“You’ll need to remove everything that might offend someone,” the realtor said. “You mean lose the Obama,” I said. Referring to the life-sized, standup cardboard cutout of our former POTUS procured during the 2008 election. Headed in 2016 for the dumpster, truth be told, but saved by the unexpected outcome of that election. Consequently retained […]
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
(Hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from my book Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want, available on Amazon.) I did not grow up in a family or community that embraced poetry—I mean, how many American families or communities do? And yet I secretly wrote it as a child, and remain a closet poet to this day. My […]
On a wing (or two) and a prayer
As the Southwest 737 climbed through the dull clouds and ragged hills of San Diego the Captain explained Air Traffic Control had advised him that the skies throughout our flight path in California today were “out of sorts,” much like the reluctant flyer I still think I am. Our ascent would prove bumpier than usual; […]
Truth has rushed to meet you (in stealth mode; but still!)
I sat in my car outside the university fitness center I belong to after completing another lonely ride to nowhere on a stationary bike. Mindlessly perusing magazines like People and US reporting on matters of dire importance such as reader polls revealing which celebrity wore which designer outfit best. Even as my iphone continued to […]
See you in September
“Just put on the God-damn glasses,” I said. “I mean, who do you think you are, anyway? Icarus? A two-year old? The President of the United States?” My inner professor tossed back his head and laughed. “We’ve talked about this,” he said. But I was just trying to protect him, for God’s sake, and let’s […]
The (Eventually) Happy Learner
(Here’s another excerpt from my most recent collection of acim forgiveness essays, Forgiveness: the Key to Happiness—hope you enjoy!) The proverbial battlefield still smoldered above strewn, severed limbs as tangled as a Picasso painting, the sun a distant orb obscured by the bitter ash of betrayal. I lay writhing in pain in the middle of […]
