Returning to Joy
At the end of the day, how can we be of the world and always return to Joy?
Of Halloween and personas…
Did you ever wonder why Halloween celebrations and all costumed parties are so popular and how people just love becoming a different version of themselves for a night? In our Western societies, we are taught early on to define ourselves, and how. Family, peers and culture are all about establishing a clear frame in which
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A tiny honey bee at a time
Today was a good day. Today I saved a honey bee that was drowning in the pool. She dried herself in the last of the sun, on my towel for a while, then she took off in the golden light of sunset and flew out of sight. It gave me joy. And it gave her
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Living as if we will never die
I read a quote from my dearest coach Steve Chandler, a while back: “When are you gonna stop living as if you’ll never die?”… You know sometimes you hear something and it has so much juice in it, you get a kind of mental electroshock? This sentence did exactly that for me. I’m still ruminating
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Human Service versus AI
In this technological age where AI pervades everything from imagery to fake news and customer service (“Your call is important to us…”), I just want to be in the Human Support field of work. There is information. Computation. Comparison. Projection. And all kinds of ginormous calculations.And it seems that we are rather well served by
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From struggling to flowing…
It’s just the flow of creating.
Reorganizing pieces already there, and seeing them in a completely new light, new form, new interaction… and getting a step further in the quest, no matter what it is.
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Fear, hatred and being human
We live in a world of contrast and clashing realities right now.We are also efficiently pushed in an on-going battle of opinions and belligerent perspectives that spin out of control in too many places. Hateful narratives and aggressive behaviors (fueled by media and by those who quietly really benefit from the chaos) leave little room
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Different but together
Recently, after brief conversations on social media where I defended what could be called liberal points of view, a couple of people chose to unfriend me or even block me. It made me pause and want to reaffirm my preference for togetherness over differences.These are highly emotional times where things tend to become more and
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How could I be happy when the world is in shambles?
How could I be happy when the world is in shambles? Is it selfish and heartless to dare being happy, to flaunt my joy to be alive when there is so much misery in this world? What about children dying of hunger, and war, and climate change? The first thing is that my being unhappy,
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A vector of peace
One can feel very powerless today in front of the many signs of unrest around us in the world.
From neighborhood to nations, from individuals to micro cultures, opinions and judgements, discriminations, ostracism and criticism, hate and division seem to contaminate every level of our humane existence on this planet.