Next to plants and oceans and mountains, animals are one of the best things the planet has going on. I love animals; I am one myself. But as you know if you’ve read even a handful of my essays, I also love non-human animals – cats in particular, but really, they are all great. You… Continue reading Animal Lives
Life is way too short for thinking small thoughts. Work worries are small thoughts. Episodes of HGTV are small thoughts. Being depressed about what other people think of you – that’s a small thought. If you’re ever down, get into some science. If you’re ever in a place of losing perspective altogether, get into some… Continue reading Thinking Big Thoughts
Today during my meditation, I burst into tears. This is actually really common for me. When I sit down, and get quiet, and let whatever feelings arise that are there to feel, I’m usually overwhelmed emotionally in some way. Big feelings. Love for my cat. Gratitude for the kindness of a friend who wants to… Continue reading Solidity
What a gift DNA is. The spark of life is a great start, proteins that can replicate themselves. But without a way to change and evolve, there would be no douglas firs, or great white sharks, or dragonflies, just molecules copying…somehow. Maybe that’s what life looks like on other planets. But we, the species of… Continue reading Under Pressure
Think of the evolutionary miracle that is love. There was a time before love existed. Then, somehow, some critter was born with a love gene. Some wild mutation invented love where it had never existed before. Its loved-on offspring did better, and survived longer, and carried the love gene forward into future generations. From egg-laying… Continue reading Love Mutation
Let’s all give ourselves credit – those of us that survived COVID, we just lived through our World War II. An event so monumental, a moment in time so paradigm-shifting, that we will forever speak of a pre-COVID world, and a post-COVID world. Actually, it’s more like if WWII did it with the Industrial Revolution.… Continue reading If WWII Did It with the Industrial Revolution
We are all connected. This is not a new observation. But what connects us is what we all have in common, the plants, the animals, each and every individual on earth: Unique in the known universe, we have life. Each and every one of us is experiencing the unlikely confluence of events that is the… Continue reading Sharing Our Aliveness
