What determines health? Of course there are our genes, our constitution, environmental factors, exercise, diet, and lifestyle, but there is more: what about beauty, art, and love? More specifically, as the subject of today’s blog: music. Project: Music Heals Us […]

Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest and most used medicines on the planet. Its philosophy and theories advocate living in harmony with the environment. When the seasons change, our bodies do this rather dramatic internal tango to realign with […]

The classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, begins with shedding light on the concept of this childlike attitude: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few”. According to this Zen Buddhist principal, anything can […]

As many of my readers know, I have been working on a memoir for a while. I wanted to share with you a snippet of the first chapter. The following is the beginning of my circuitous and revelatory route toward […]

When someone is 91, has no arthritis and laughs easily, we naturally want to know more about how they rode through almost a century of life and be healthier than many who are a lot younger. A good diet and […]

Before us we have as a huge gift, the months of July and August, in which we can gather the energy of the season. It is like a second chance at our New Year’s Resolutions, however, it is quite different […]

We have been given another year, another chance, and a brand new blank canvas to create a unique piece of art with our lives. Hopefully it will compel with its composition, balance, harmony and light. That is how I see […]

Sometimes we just need a little courage to take a gradual right, or even a sharp left, off of our pre-planned journeys in life. This may be how we find the place that most suits our highest and best purpose. […]

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear readers. Sending each of you some inspiration on this day that we celebrate LOVE! An uplifted spirit infuses the body/mind with vital life energy to help bring us back in balance.  Here are five words that […]

The festivities are over. Extreme socializing done. Now is the time put into effect the means to achieve the intentions that will find us  in better shape next year at this time–physically, economically, emotionally—any aspect of our lives that is […]

I took this photograph on a Saturday morning in a dorm at Yale University. Every week, undergraduates of various fields of study met to practice calligraphy. No one received ‘credit’ for the time spent there. Even toward the end of […]