I am now getting close to ten years as a homeless person.  That’s not a fair  statement because I feel like I’m trivializing homelessness and I have great compassion for all of the truly homeless people out there.  It is true that I haven’t had “my own place” during this time but I haven’t really been homeless.  

In Sept, 2006 I moved out of my residence in Phoenix, having lived in that region for thirty years.  I never lived in that house again having rented it out during the ei...

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If you are an American (North or South), what comes to mind for you when you hear the phrase, “Africanized Killer Bees?”  I’m sure there has been a B-Movie (pardon the pun) made capitalizing on the fear that fills the body when hearing this term.  Visualizations of hundreds of bees swarming on tiny poodles, children in playgrounds and adults helplessly falling to the ground thrashing violently before finally succumbing to the inevitable.

Meanwhile, here in South Africa, I sit quietly o...

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Here, Now

There was a time, in the Colorado Rockies, when I stood and was transfixed by the sight of the Aspens, the glorious Aspens, shimmering in the wind.  There is that time of year when the leaves are just the right color when “shimmering” is just the right word for the magical display that happens in the breeze.

Here, now, in the veldt of South Africa, I watch the leaves of a tree blowing in the wind.  It is not an Aspen tree.  I don't even know the name that people have given to ...

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Finding Your Bliss

Let me give you an example of how this works.  I spent four years at Rutgers · The State University getting a degree in Electrical Engineering.   Mostly what I learned in my four years was how to play bridge and that I didn’t want to be an engineer.
 
So when companies sent representatives to conduct interviews to hire people so they could actually go from being poverty-stricken students to being well-respected, tax-paying employees, I didn’t go to any of them.  My mind ...
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If Home is where the heart is
Then may your Home be blessed
A shelter from the storms of Life
A place of rest,
And when each day is over
And toil put in its place
Your Home's dear warmth
Will bring its smile
To light the saddest face!

John McLeod

Just the word, “home” evokes a warm feeling in most of us.  But we certainly don’t all think of the same image.  For those of us who grew up in a home with loving parents and siblings, that scene may spring to mind.  For others, i...

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How many of us have thought we would have helped Moses change the world if we had been there when he brought down the 10 Commandments?  Or maybe you think you would have been a staunch disciple of Jesus.  Perhaps we wish we were there with Gandhi or Mother Theresa or Martin Luther King. 

Well – that opportunity is still available today.  In fact, it will always be available to every person who is willing to accept the Truth and express it in their living.  If you need a current role m...

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On Friday, around noon, Louise and I packed the car and headed off on an adventure.  It was “supposed” to be a weekend of hiking and considerations of A Course in Miracles at a property in the hills of the scenic KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. 

Then reality set in.  Along the way we had issues with phones, picking up a movie, getting lost and, just when we thought all of our challenges were behind us, we encountered a pot-hole strewn road that looked more like a minefield than a road.  We mana...

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