Month: October 2014

Speed of Life

Speed of Life

The Slow Food movement began as an alternative to fast-food. It was a call for local ingredients, thoughtfully prepared and eaten with pleasure. Based on this wisdom, I’m advocating we start a Slow Life movement where the quality of life is determined by the depth…

The Age of Distraction

The Age of Distraction

Technology I have a conflicted relationship with technology. It creates community and dispenses information like never before. The problem is that human beings are wired to see the bright and shiny – making the medium that brings us most together, the one that potentially pulls…

Connecting for Survival

Connecting for Survival

We come into this world with a need for belonging and depend upon each other emotionally to survive. Loneliness is intolerable and can only be endured if we deny voice to our feelings. But when we cut off access to our emotions, we systematically and…

The L-Word

The L-Word

Being receptive to mini moments of love throughout the day is a rich, renewable source of happiness. In the end, what we call it matters little. More importantly is seeing the many chances to open ourselves up to the practice of love.