Spiritual Haikus It’s been awhile since I’ve compiled some of my haikus. I continue to write them, though starting in late May, I have been sharing them less: I am considering putting them into a book or two. I have been on recent travels to sacred places...
Lots of Haikus to Inspire You Every so often, I compile posts of haikus because they resonate. After writing “20 Haikus to Inspire You,” I thought I’d start a little tradition of sharing haiku posts every so often. I continue to write daily haikus to...
We Often Encounter Challenging People In Our Day-to-Day Lives I often feel an innate need to be a light to others: to inspire them, to help them when they’re down. But I have my moments when I feel like it’s me against the world. I know there are so many...
Inspirational Haikus For while now, I have been writing haikus each morning and posting them over on my Twitter feed. I’m not entirely sure what exactly made me start doing this, but I can say that I honestly just love sharing uplifting, good things in a world...
Friends, September ended and I successfully completed a month of eating a vegan diet. I slipped up once: on 30 September: I bought a bag of Funyuns (you know, those onion-ring-flavored things) and started devouring them because I needed some carbs – stat. Looked...
Peaceful Hawk On Thursday, Sept. 21, the world will celebrate the International Day of Peace. This is the one day where I have the most hope that humans will choose peace – not arms, not war, not hatred. But instead, they will choose to put down their arms, they...
It’s been awhile since I wrote a poem and I’ve been needing to get into a groove of creativity: I’m feeling a need to paint or create, without a reason. Without it being a means to an end. The world we live in today has shown us that we humans have...
Journal Writing: Thoughts, Musings, Platitudes and Gratitudes Since I was quite young, I’ve kept diaries and journals. Some were for school-related requirements, such as when I went on a trip: I once wrote 30 notebook pages for a 4-day trip to the American...
Writing a Poem… As I get ready for the year-long LIFE project I’m about to embark upon, I thought it would be a nice change to spend some time writing a poem. This poem I crafted from thoughts that were milling in my heart – of learning about...
