What do Mark Twain, John Lennon, Walt Whitman, Henry Ford, Thoreau, the Dalai Lama and 25% of Americans have in common? They all believe/believed in reincarnation – ‘After all, it is no more surprising to be born twice, than it is to be born once,’ – Voltaire ‘I have been born more times than anybody…
Tati
Laura was an art photographer (her work is collected by 4 New York museums). One of her favorite studies was of her dear friends and upstairs neighbors Marion and Sharon and their two baby girls Tati and Meg. She followed the family around for 5 years. ‘Laura was obsessed with Tati’ says Marion (one of…
Little Children
Laura loved taking pictures of very small children. When I asked her why, she said: ‘Because they are not yet formed human beings. They don’t censor themselves.’ Here are more of Laura’s comments – ‘It is a spiritual picture. She has got her arms outstretched. It looks like she is in awe in heaven.’ –…
Past Lives
On Friday I did a past life regression. I was curious if I would meet Laura again in a previous life. Beforehand my mind was full of Hollywood scenarios – what if we were Navajo Indians roaming the South West (as I die from a poisoned arrow, Laura comforts me in her arms); or concubines…
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you all for the little acts of kindness (and the really big ones too) that made the last 18 months bearable. I am so blessed to have had Laura by my side for 3 years and so blessed to have such extraordinary family and friends (old and new!). Last Thanksgiving was a…
Sail Away
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Multiple Sclerosis – A Recovery Story
When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2004, I felt like the sky had fallen on my head. But it solved a lifelong mystery. By my mid 40s I had spent over 5 years of my life in bed with bouts of extreme fatigue. When I was ill it felt like all the energy…
10 Years
These past 10 years have been the hardest of my life. Almost exactly a year ago, Laura’s CT scan came back with pages and pages of new cancer tumors. They poured out of the fax machine in what seemed to be a never ending stream, detailing tumors in her bones, and every organ except her…
A Love Affair
My love affair with the red rock, big sky country of the South West started in 1996 on a family vacation. We spent an exhilarating 2 weeks driving through Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, on a trail plotted out by a geology professor friend of my dad’s. In Jerome, a funky little mining town near…
When The Body Says No
Oh my goodness did my body put up a fight against coming back to New York. I was wracked with pains, hot flashes, headaches, intense itching all manner of mini plagues the minute I sat down on the plane back to New York. It was almost comic. ‘Alright,’ I said to myself. ‘I get the…
What is God?
Barbara Brown Taylor (an Episcopal priest)’s wonderfully simple and inspired answers to the profound questions what is God, Religion and what is Spirituality? God: Some, beyond my conception, divine consciousness. The space between the stars that is also the space between you and me that is liquid and alive with possibilities. Skin is kind of…
So Long Sedona
Taking this month for myself is one of the best things I’ve ever done. Every day I just get up and do whatever I want. In the past, I’ve travelled almost entirely for work or to meet up with family. But almost never for myself. I was so scared of booking this trip. I dithered…
Life After Life
Until this trip nearly all the spiritual stories I’d heard were told by women. Maybe it was sitting on a male energy vortex that changed things. Greg, a gay man and former catholic priest visiting the Christ in the Desert Monastery, laughed when I said I was a little spooked at first experiencing Laura’s spiritual…
Soul Love Forever 