First posted January 15, 2016. This morning, I awoke early to a spectacular, if delicate, art show outside my bedroom window. It only happens in the very early hours when the sun is low enough in the sky to be temporarily “caught” in the ethereal glisten of the spider webs hanging there. (We have an agreement, the spiders and I, that they can uninhibitedly indulge in their production of art to their heart’s content as long as it is on the outside of the screen. Both of us fa

First posted December 28, 2015. The Vespers by Sergei Rachmaninoff – written in 1915 – was first performed in Russia in 1915 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the first World War. Then communism came into power which banned sacred music and it was not again performed for 50 years. It is considered one of the world’s masterpieces. What a good example this is of how beliefs, especially political beliefs, can keep us from experiencing the beauty that our world has to off

First posted December 5, 2015. I have been talking about anger lately and have become clearer that I have always been uneasy with what seems to be a basic concept of AA that anger is “bad” for addicts and cannot be experienced under any circumstances. Having been raised in an Irish/Cherokee family, I have always found this idea of “anger being dangerous” not only confusing, it seems wrong to me. I have always seen anger as more like a celestial enema that periodically cleans