Rowdy Creator Jacob Nordby's wigwam of happy insanity

About this time last year I sat beneath the shade of a tree in my front yard and devoured Ray Bradbury’s long awaited Farewell Summer (sequel to his outrageously popular Dandelion Wine).  It is a beautiful book–an allegory about youth and aging, life and death, and the passing seasons. I...

Tao #28 Be aware of your masculine nature; But by keeping the feminine way, You shall be to the world like a canyon, Where the Virtue eternal abides, And go back to become as a child. Be aware of the white all around you; But rememb’ring the black that is there, You shall be to [...]

Tao Te Ching ~ 11 ~ Thirty spokes will converge In the hub of a wheel; But the use of the cart Will depend on the part Of the hub that is void. With a wall all around A clay bowl is molded; But the use of the bowl Will depend on the part Of [...]

I invited Matt Kahn to join me on the “Thank God It’s Friday” show this week.  Years ago someone gave me a cd of his program titled Earth Angels.  I have listened to it probably 100 times and have been deeply affected by the simple, powerful wisdom he shares. Matt is a mystic.  Tha...

Right-click on this picture & select “Save As” to download the MP3 of “TGIF” radio show from 7/29    My guest, Harmon Hathaway,  is a breath of fresh air.  He’s been helping people correct physical problems since the 1960′s.  He founded the American Yoga Found...

I was offered the host position for “Believe In The Moment’s” great Friday show titled: Thank God It’s Friday.  I accepted with pleasure! My first guest, Brian Johnson, author of Philosopher’s Notes, conscious entrepreneur, author, speaker, philosopher and world travele...

Do something.  Right now, close your eyes…take a deep breath.  Now, open them and look around.  Look up at your ceiling.  Notice the walls of the room in which you’re sitting.   Glance down at the tiles on the floor under your feet (you ARE reading this in your bathroom, aren’t you?).  Now look back...

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances…” ~ Shakespeare   My phone buzzed late last night.  It was a text message from a friend who knows I never watch TV news: Osama Bin Laden is dead! I was surprised by m...

The Spring A Parable Brown. Dry. The sky hung over the landscape heavily. Like a great sack of leaden balls ready to burst and rain down death. A very little light glowed from the earth and sky, but it was an unhealthy, rotten luminescence. Across the scorched plains a few animals could be seen. Sca...

I am sharing this beautiful, powerful meditation on life by Max Ehrmann with you.  Pass it on to anyone whose face comes up in the window of your heart as you read these words. Desiderata by Max Ehrmann Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As [...]