The Ageless Experiment

She walked through the garage not realizing that some joggers were going by and the garage door was still open. Throwing something out in the trash and then heading back into the house. Don't know her name or anything else really other than how she carried herself. Bent shoulders, shuffle in the walk. Not old […]

February 2: What happened to patience. When was it lost as a critical ingredient in a successful life.Maybe cellphone, instant messaging, emails have stripped us of the beauty and need in our lives of patience.Letting the day, the story,the moment unfold in a purposeful,meaningful manner as opposed to merely getting it over with.There is something […]

Sooner or later it is always high noon. Sooner or later you come face to face with the adversary…real or not, it presents itself to you. Gary Cooper in High Noon. There he was. Portraying the sheriff Will Kane walking down the dusty streets of Hadleyville as the noon train unloaded his enemy and threat […]

February 1: The great thing,among so many things,about children is that they permit us to see things for the first time again.To experience the sights and sounds of the world,to witness the beauty and awe of nature fresh is one of the gifts we receive from children. A simple blade of grass is amazing through […]

Some call it the hour of the wolf. Others have different names for it but it all refers to the same moment…2 a.m. or 3 a.m. when your eyes open, your heart is racing and the problem of the day is magnified to an exaggerated size. It is from that time till sunrise that the […]

January 29: It was at Tangeboche that I finally witnessed the power of silence. Our group had made its way up from Namche to the covered wooden bridge that permitted us to enter the grounds of the Buddhist monastery. As we crossed the bridge we were engulfed in The Silence. To the left of us […]

January 28: When the student is ready,the teacher will appear. So often the lesson is right in front of us yet we can not see it because we just are not ready. We are stuck in some old drama. We are recycling the old stuff in the same machine again and again. The teacher is […]

What if age did take a holiday. What if age decided to take a break from its daily routine. A person was frozen at the age when age takes this break. No matter the age there you were locked in it. Would you choose that or would you ask for an exception to the holiday […]

It was at Namche Bizarre that we first witnessed the cremation of the deceased villager. The horn and drum sounds broke the morning quiet as the precession made its way up the mountain slope. It was the Himalayas on a crisp May morning. As we worked our way up to Namche from the village of […]

January 27: The drumming in the Shaman circle was reaching its peak. The incense filled the room , the heart and head. The sounds and smells altered the reality so that the lessons could be learned and the voices of the ancestors could be heard.It had been a week already in the Shaman circle. The […]