Today I watched Dr. Wayne Dyer’s PBS presentation called The Power of Intention with my family. My mother-in-law wrote down the “The Dyer Dozen” for reconnecting to Source. The Source he describes is that which people call God with any name they choose. His words are in bold below, with my own reflections under them.

Note: I wrote this in 1994 for my college newspaper. I found it again this morning and thought I would post it here. He sits at a small wooden table, eating ribs off a plastic plate with his hands. In between mouthfuls he takes a swallow of his water, looks up at Jeff (seeing how [...]

A few days ago I left my house, driving to work, and the world was full of bright sunshine and blue skies. Before I had driven a mile I was looking at a solid gray sky with fast moving, white wispy clouds, racing along beneath the gray. It was just starting to sprinkle and the [...]

I was watching people at lunch today, sitting alone in the corner at Taco Bueno, eating my bean burritos and thinking. There was a mom feeding her son a taco. He was laughing and having fun which was stressing his mother, but she continued to smile and tell him he was a good boy and [...]

I talk pretty big about compassion. I even try to live the talk, and I think I do a good job with almost every one I come across; but I fail with my family. Why is that? I have always hated the saying, “We hurt the ones we love” — it just seems like such [...]