You know when you meet someone new, it's kind of programmed into us to pleasantly ask "what do you do?" meaning "what do you do for a living?"

So when I tell people I’m a “spiritual director, mentor and coach” they usually get the “mentor and coach” part, but follow up with “what’s a spiritual director?”

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” — Eckhart Tolle

Last week I learned of the passing of someone who had a big impact on my life, Hay House founder and author of You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay.

“As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would l learn to attain free fall, and float into Creator Spirit's deep embrace knowing no effort earns that all surrounding grace.” – Denise Levertov

Nine years ago today, September 15, 2017, it was official: my condo went on the market and two months later the sale closed, launching me into one of the most challenging experiences of my life — being “homeless,” jobless, and in the middle of a “dark night of the soul.”

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

Dear readers — I started writing this on the eve of my birthday at the start of October when fifty-three years ago, I was getting ready to enter this loud bright crazy beautiful world and would be born looking like, according to my mother, an “angry Eskimo.”

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.” – Mary Oliver

As I write this, there’s a full moon at my back, a super full moon rising in the eastern winter sky, reflecting light through one of my east-facing windows. I was catching up with an old friend on the phone as the moon rose, huge and bright, as we shared stories about our lives, how we’re completing 2017, and where our sights are focused in 2018. Both of us celebrated the recent winter solstice and the return of sunlight as the new year arrives.