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Steve by Jamey Stillings
Steve Roberts
serves fellow explorers
of life’s two most important questions:
What’s going on,
and what’s the healthiest action I can take in this moment?
To this end, Steve champions
the most fear-provoking point of view
the world has ever known:
Everything is a gift,
and the business of life is discovering how come.
He finds the spirit of the universe to be
playful, loving, deep.
Besides laughter and the sharing of experience,
his expressions of this spirit include
several hundred essays,
a novel, some 2000 drawings,
countless stone sculptures
built & photographed
on his Vermont mountainside
over a quarter century, and
a portfolio of professional communication
for clients who favor a collaborator
who aspires to write like a freight train
driven by Mother Teresa.

Awe Rather Than Judgment

It would seem that,  quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health  in any community  might well reside in our ability  to stand in awe at what folks have to carry  rather than in judgment of how they carry it. Greg Boyle, Jesuit priest, founder of Homeboy Industries   When I consider my life from this

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A Story from Swami Rama

Swami Rama is a kindred soul for those of us on the spiritual joyride. In one of his books, “Living With the Himalayan Masters,” he tells the story of a swami of his acquaintance.  The swami’s disciples felt he was very ill, so much so that death might very well be imminent.  They asked Swami

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Despair Helps Us Remember

It sounds funny, but among the keys to true happiness is despair. By despair I mean experiencing deeply the pain of choices we make that are harmful to ourselves and others.  Choices of belief.  Choices of rationalization.  Choices of denial.  Choices of judgment.  Any choice of us and them.  When we touch the core disharmony

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Just Who is “Thine Own Self”?

“To thine own self be true.”   Now that’s useful advice, even if it is impossible to follow.  At least it’s impossible for me, because I don’t know who my “own self” is.  Fortunately, my lack of understanding doesn’t get in the way of a rewarding life. I can tell you all sorts of things

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Deaths Are So Precious

It is said that every death awakens us to all the other deaths we have experienced, and in doing so encourages us to assess ever more deeply our commitment to our self.  Not just who will we be or die trying, but also how’s it going?  I find that to be the case, and in

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Enough Is Not Enough

On Facebook, in response to the story of one more inhumane acton by some soulless politician, a Facebook friend posted a single word: “ENOUGH!” What do you suppose my friend really meant?  What was the message?  I think she was saying: “In this moment, I’m not able to free the magnitude of pain I feel. 

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Death Wish

Do you ever think that every event in your life is designed to help you live your life purpose, the core reason you’re alive? Maybe it’s like hide and seek.  The universe embeds deep meaning in everything––licorice popcorn; the Serenity Prayer; or something really wacky: discovering that the stranger we met on a train can

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Tattoos on the Heart

❦ Sharing my discoveries and welcoming yours is the purpose of this little playground.  I hope you’ll add your voice when it feels right. If you’d like to explore working together, click on Q&A, or visit my other website, CoolMindWarmHeart.com

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