Recently I’ve been playing with an exciting new approach to manifestation, as outlined in the book Scripting the Life You Want, by Royce Christyn. It involves a daily practice of writing down your intentions for the day ahead, including things you hope will happen along with others that you absolutely know will happen. This engages your brain’s reticular activating system … [Read more...]

By the early 1950s, Frank Sinatra’s career had hit a low ebb. No one wanted him as a singer or an actor. Yet when he read the book From Here to Eternity, which was about to be made into a movie, Sinatra knew he was born to play the part of Maggio. So he contacted the producer, Harry Cohn, offering to test for the part. Cohn turned him down flat. But then the actor they’d cast … [Read more...]

Our beautiful green planet just marked a shocking new milestone – enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat. Every single month from June 2023 to May 2024 was the world’s hottest such month on record, and this alarming trend appears likely to continue. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, who are about to mark the beginning of summer, this is sobering news. … [Read more...]

It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of us (like me) who spent our summer vacations haunting the local library and devouring adventure novels, but many U.S. kids have no library near where they live – and thus no access to books. Three years ago, this fact became apparent to Baltimore resident Araba Maze. As she was reading a book to her niece on the front stoop of her … [Read more...]

A butterfly is a delicate, ephemeral creature. So, the Zuni Butterfly Dance, which took place off a dusty, remote New Mexico road, came as a shock to many. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes it in Women Who Run with the Wolves, the dancer, Maria Lujan, was a large, elderly native woman with long, gray hair wearing a one-shouldered, red-and-black blanket dress and sporting … [Read more...]