The Summer Element In one sense, summer is the easiest season to write about. Its lessons and intentions are about joy and connection, laughter and exaltation. It’s about the full expression of our most authentic selves. Summer is the season when we are most open and...
“I do feel like there’s something special about hip-hop, though, that I’m always trying to get at in my music. And it’s not about a sound. To me it’s about how honestly and vulnerably I’m willing to tell my story in the music itself and...
This week I feel like a failure. In most measurable ways, my business is only limping along. My house is a mess. I stay at the very edges of rallies or marches if I go at all. Some days I’m too exhausted to have conversations with the people I love. I want to sit in a...
As summer unfurls with a lushness and sense of abandon, we are asked to find our interconnectedness and joy. Joy is the emotion associated with the fire element, early summer’s realm, and the fire’s energetic is to reach out, to connect with others. I find myself...
Years ago, when I was living in New Orleans and having a particularly difficult summer, I received a letter from my father. He had just been at a meditation retreat, where a friend told him about this question, “Where’s the joy?” In the midst of a difficult moment or...
