The hope is that this blog will be a supportive community for those seeking to more fully understand their lives. You are invited to share your own thoughts and experiences as you wish. Here are guidelines for participation:

  • Accept that we are all different in many complex ways.

  • Be respectful and compassionate with one another.

  • This is a forum for thoughtful discussion, questions, and sharing; not debate.

  • If you are left unsatisfied unless you think you have scored points, then perhaps this site is not for you.

  • Anyone who creates a hostile environment will be privately responded to in the first instance and blocked thereafter if the behavior does not change.

  • As my teacher, Dr. Jehangir Chubb, taught me: Be skeptical of everything. See the truth that is in a thing. Reject the rest.

“ It is so good to be simple, simply good-willed, to do the best one can, and in the best way possible; not to build anything very considerable but only to aspire for progress, for light, a peace full of goodwill, and let that which knows in the world decide for you what you will become and what you will have to do.” - The Mother

July 21, 1954, from “The Mother”, collected works, Volume 6, Questions and Answers 1954, p. 248, Collected Works of the Mother - Centenary Edition, copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1979, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press Pondicherry 605 002

Disclaimer: Please be informed that I am not smart enough to give any advice whatsoever. This includes medical, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual advice. I am competent enough to advise against sticking your hand in a fire, but that’s about it, and hopefully you already know that. So, if you are looking for someone to tell you what to do or how to live, please seek professional help. The purpose here is for me to share what I have learned in the course of my life and things that have supported me in my journey. I saw someone wearing message earrings that said “Be yourself.” As I told that individual, I am not competent enough to be anyone else, and sometimes I don’t feel so competent in my own life!