Dear Friend,
It has been a long time since I’ve sent out a newsletter, but I have a great excuse… I’ve been finishing a new book!
It is being printed now and should be out by the end of September… I will keep you posted!
I haven’t been very active on social media this year either; with my private clients in my soul-oriented psychotherapy practice, and with the warm weather finding me meeting up more with those around me, rather than with my online buddies, I feel blessed that through my newsletter and social media, I can once more be in touch with many of my old mates.
Having good friends is so very important. In fact, I see it as a spiritual vitamin and feel our health will suffer if we don’t make enough effort in this direction!
And so…
My good mate Steve Taylor and I have recently started a podcast – he’s the brains and I’m the waffle – and we’ve had six issues thus far, alternating weeks with a dialogue between ourselves and the interviewing of an interesting person.
We’ve named our Podcast Fierce Grace!
Thus far, on the interesting person’s side, we’ve chatted with Philip Carr-Gong who for many years was head of the Druids, and my old friend from my 20’s, Susan Campbell, an eminent professor of psychology, author of many books, including ones on change, conflict and community.
Our last podcast featured a talk between Steve and myself hypothesizing over what we might expect to happen throughout the rest of this century… It would be great to read your thoughts on this topic in the comments section.
You can watch these and all upcoming podcasts on my You Tube channel as well as on Steve’s.
I am also creating a series of short lectures…
Here’s the first one, recently uploaded to my YouTube channel called “The Trouble with Billionaires” and am planning another on “What Constitutes Good Work”. Please feel free to share them with your friends.
In closing…
I feel moved to share a little piece that I wrote in my memoir Amazing Grace, which came out three years ago. I was looking back over my whole life, pondering on this:
I wish I could be like an eagle soaring in the sky and as I look down, I would be able to see the totality of my life in all its many stages, spread out and existing right now, and I could swoop down and with the ‘me’ that I am today, re-enter any story that I wanted to. If it were possible, I feel I could not only extract so much more meaning out of the moment, but I could contribute so much more as well… I would be able to re-do some of those many mistakes I made because I wasn’t then wise enough then to have known better…
Have you ever felt this way? Ain’t life a mystery!
As the Buddah said…
Blessed be to all of us,
May we all be happy,
May we all be free!
Love,
