New and Improved Version of Me

First photo is from 1973-1974 University of Portland student body card. The USAF ROTC was unimpressed with my hair, even with my near record score on their academic AFOQT scholarship and entrance exam (I walked away from it all later in freshman year, though I spent six total years at Read more

GURU

Jim and Sharon,, I think we did much better for our lives, and for our Spirit, by not becoming yet another profit  centered ego passing as the latest minstrel of Truth, whether Western, or Eastern based in understanding. True guru’s know that no Teacher, no matter how popular, has any Read more

Football, and Family

FOOTBALL is everywhere, yet again.  It is the season to rally around our favorite teams, be they high school, college, or professional.  We tend to support the “home” teams (go Ducks, Beavers!)I never had a home professional team, being from Portland, Oregon, and growing up in the pre-Seattle Seahawks era. Read more

Final Notes On Book #8

No More Turning Away—Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence How can we see the big picture, when we put just our face, the face of our past, our family history, and the history of humankind, in the picture frame? Research for this book nearly cost me my life several times. My Read more

Final Trauma Narrative?

       I find myself sad, and a little tearful this morning.  I grieve for all the spinoffs, or exiles of self that I created, and sent off into the deep wilderness of my unexplored interior domain due to traumatic wounding.  And I grieve for the multitudes of family Read more

No More Turning Away

Photo taken by famous raconteur, African historian, conservationist, photographer, and tour guide, Russell Gammon. He caught me in a rare moment of serious observation of wildlife—-of fellow Road Scholars ‘at our amazing barbecue and picnic in the middle of the African bush. I had no idea that I looked like Read more