The Poised Life

What Does a Poised Marriage Look Like? And How Does a Warrior Go About Marriage? Of  all of our relationships, marriage has the greatest potential for our emergence. Here are summaries of several recent articles I have written as a bi-monthly writer for the Hope After Divorce website with  a link to each article.  If [...]

As we learn to sustain our poise, our life story shrinks and then disappears. It’s a good thing. What is our life story? Our life story is our ego’s version of what our life is all about. It’s always a falsehood.  Here are some examples from the narrative I used to keep alive in my [...]

My heart has been wonderfully light for several months.  I’ve had the best stretch of light-heartedness in my life.  It’s been heavenly living in a state of sustained poise—present, connected, grateful, creative, and light-hearted. I have not been earnest for some time—until this week. Then, all in the space of a few days, the universe [...]

Soberly, we watch the explosions at the Boston Marathon on our TV screens.  Chaos.  Wounded men, women, and children hurried away on stretchers. Loss of limbs and loss of life. Police and medical responders.  Eye witness reports. Theories about which mad men plotted this massacre.  The President resolving to track down the culprits.  News analyses.  [...]

If you’re sustaining your poise these days, you’re feeling close to nature. Nature?  Yes, this beautiful earth from which all life has emerged, this Mother that provides all we need.  Nature, the breath we breathe, the plants and animals, the wind and sea, the rocks and dust, and the part of the immense universe we [...]