on the tracks
Depending on your perspective it can be hard to take flight Depending on the tracks your following it may be a long trip You can even be on the right track, but if you don’t move,the train will still run…
Month July 2025
~ I have seen my hometown in your eyes ~
Yes, I am an optimistic, idealistic, naturalistic, humanistic lover of life, but I am not alone, thank goodness! I must admit that my big lesson in this life was clearly spoken by one of my favorite comedians, Will Rogers, when…
Sustaining the Transformational Shift
An Invitation to Conscious Participation We welcome your comments, input, and sharing. The creation of meaningful content exists within a delicate ecosystem of interdependence. Writers, thinkers, and readers form an intricate web of exchange – ideas flowing outward, support flowing…
Nature’s Bandaid
What if the most powerful healing resource in your environment has been hiding in plain sight, disguised as a common weed? Plantain reveals nature's profound systemic intelligence – appearing exactly where soil disturbance occurs, concentrating its healing compounds in direct proportion to environmental stress, and demonstrating that abundance exists within interconnected networks all around us. This humble plant, growing beneath our feet in yards worldwide, offers a transformative lens for understanding how healing actually works: not through complex interventions, but through supporting the body's natural restoration networks. From wound healing to respiratory support, from digestive harmony to skin repair, plantain embodies the principle that the most elegant solutions emerge from recognizing and working with existing systems rather than against them. When we shift from seeing weeds to recognizing medicine, we're not just discovering a plant – we're awakening to our place within the living web of wellness that has always surrounded us, waiting for us to remember how to participate in the ancient dialogue between human need and nature's generous response.
This Journey We Share
As I travel on this journey I always try to ask myself these two foremost questions, prior to any action I may take.They are 1. Am I operating from the Creative Love my Spirit arises from? 2. Will it create…
Purslane and the Pattern of Overlooked Abundance
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea), commonly dismissed as a garden weed, represents one of nature's most profound examples of overlooked abundance—a humble succulent that contains more omega-3 fatty acids than most fish, exceptional levels of antioxidants, and remarkable healing compounds, yet grows freely in sidewalk cracks and disturbed soils worldwide. This nutritional powerhouse, studied for space missions and revered by traditional cultures for over 4,000 years, embodies what systems thinkers call a "hidden leverage point"—revealing how our modern culture has been conditioned to overlook free, abundant resources while pursuing expensive, processed alternatives. The plant's nine validated health benefits emerge not as isolated effects but as interconnected facets of whole-system optimization, demonstrating nature's principle of concentrating maximum nutritional value through minimal resource investment. Learning to recognize and utilize purslane becomes a doorway into "ecological intelligence," inviting a fundamental shift from scarcity-based thinking to abundance-based perception, where the solutions we seek are often already present in our immediate environment, waiting for us to develop the eyes to see them and the wisdom to work with natural systems rather than against them.