“It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift — your true self — is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs.” by Thomas Berry, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche open share / musings Kia ora...
3 months ago • 13 min read
“It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift — your true self — is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs.” by Thomas Berry, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche open share / musings Yesterday, I...
11 months ago • 10 min read
“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!” by Viktor E Frankl, in Yes To Life, In Spite Of Everything open share / musings Kia ora (greetings), friends and whānau (family), Thank you, Reader, for opening this newsletter and taking the time and curiosity to read what I put out to the world. I send you this compilation with care from Aotearoa New Zealand, for I am here. I am back in the land of the long white cloud, native to the Māori peoples. The feelings and emotions have...
about 1 year ago • 17 min read
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.” - Carl Rogers open share / musings Greetings, Reader Like most newsletters, this edition is written/created in chunks. At the moment I'm writing this, I'm sitting on a fallen cedar tree (I think) laying across Wildcat Creek on the Kitsap peninsula of western Washington state. The mid-afternoon sun is lighting up the tops of the canopy all around me, diffusing the summer sun into a soft glow here on the forest...
over 1 year ago • 14 min read
“I have made peace with the things I cannot change. I have the courage to change the things that I can.And I have the wisdom to know the difference.” - Serenity Prayer by Sah D'Simone open share / musings From the indigenous lands of the Shoshone, Bannock, Blackfoot, Crow, Flathead, Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce people, I send you, Reader, my warmest greetings. About a year ago, in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, an absolutely magical, memorable day was unfolding. I had begun that day well...
over 1 year ago • 14 min read
“Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.”- Osho open share / musings Good morning, afternoon, or evening, Reader! I wish to start with gratitude for you and 438(!) others who receive the subtledream newsletter. It is a humbling and radical feeling each time I craft this publication together. 2+ years into this practice, I can tell you the discipline, the devotion, the...
over 1 year ago • 14 min read
"When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears." by S.N. Goenka open share / musings Dear Reader and friends, It's official - México likes to shower me with excellent adventures, vibrant colours & radical art, culinary yumminess, new cultural & historical depths, and friendliness & warmth in ways that mainstream media has done no justice. My return to this wonderful and at times infamous country in December was immediately met by an agreeable climate,...
almost 2 years ago • 13 min read
"Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded." ~ Gabor Maté open share / musings From Oaxaca city, I send you, Reader, my warmest greetings. What a year this has been, for me, likely for you, and certainly for many all around the world. Time certainly doesn't feel linear the more years I live this life. And speaking of life, thank you for riding this journey with me. What a gift of your time and attention. What a privilege, truly, that you would...
almost 2 years ago • 14 min read
"Love is having. Desire is wanting. And you can want only what you don’t already have." Emily Nagoski open share Dear friends, 9 years ago today, I was cycling southbound on the Mendocino coast of California with my touring bicycle loaded with life necessities enroute for the Bay Area and reuniting with my friends Susan & Ken at their farm, Pasture 42. I stayed and worked with them for the busy month leading up to Thanksgiving, and it was my first experience slaughtering an animal for its...
about 2 years ago • 13 min read