In the current purging series I’ve tried to help articulate why this (and projects like these) are so vital to our human wellbeing especially at this historical juncture in time.  

I know that some will skim read it. In so doing, chances are they won’t make the connection between a process like purging and it’s deeper purpose of helping to revitalize something far more critical to our human well being…personal creativity.  

Nevertheless, I wanted to put in the effort...

I started my own career, as a child prodigy so I was out in the big bad world well before it was probably healthy. It did however give me an early and profound understanding that we come her alone from who knows where and leave here alone to more parts just as unknown.  In short we are all total aliens to the miracle of human experience. 

We get no handbook.  Naked with no ability to communicate and without even the opportunity to name or explain our selves everyone on th...

If you’re like me, you’ve probably run through a ton of ideas of how to make your life better. By better I mean more manageable, more personally meaningful, more proactive and more self-contained.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be unencumbered enough to make your own choices, work hard at what you love and, in the end, know that the work you do, in some way, makes some kind of difference?

So many of us bungee cord from wanting to contribute in a meaningful way to wanting to escape si...

After Shout Out, OxyClean, bleach and a toothbrush, frayed at the collar though it may always now be, it was hot and blinding white once again and now lavender scented as I returned it back to the wooden peg next to the kiva fireplace in my bedroom.

There it was when I awoke this morning. Like an Andrew Wyeth still life, fresh and ceremonial and personal against the polished adobe plaster.

I greeted it like an old purified friend, ready to bundle me up for the blurry toddle to...