Last night, I presented at Ignite 6 Portland. It’s an event for mostly the Portland Tech community, where people can talk about whatever they want for 5 minutes. You need to apply about 3 months beforehand, and competition is slightly fierce.
You get 20 slides, which appear on a big movie screen behind you. The slides move automatically at 15 seconds a pop.
Okay, so my slide presentation popped up on the screen, and people started cheering. 600 people cheered and clapped and I said, “Couldn’t you just do that for the …

I’m a little judgmental at times. I wish I could skip through life seeing the divine in everyone, but people are so damn irritating sometimes.
If someone is manifesting as an irritant in your life, it is because they and you are working something out. You are learning from them. They are learning from you.
When one of my kids plays the same bar of the same song over and over again on his guitar as I’m trying to work, I’m learning patience and grace.
He is learning something too, though he obviously …

Yesterday, I was listening to a class about money, and attracting money to one’s life.
The key thought from this class was “Think about how money makes you feel, and then bring about that feeling in your life.”
Money Equals Peace
To me, money equals peace. When I have a full coffer and can pay my bills and buy a little jewelry and some books and yarn, I am at peace.
Money is a simply a means to feel peace. So feel peace.
Ah! Okay, so feel peaceful! I can get there. I took a …

My dear smart child, Rubin, is 18. He loves physics. He loves philosophy.
He is a starving college student. I know, because he regularly locusts my kitchen.
If you spend time in Portland, you probably know him, because the kid knows EVERYBODY.
Anyway, the other day, we were at the Petite Provence on Alberta. He was eating French Onion Soup. I had a raspberry tart and a latte. We were feeling tres tres philosophical and a oui bit French.
He said this to me…
“Well, mom, imagine that there are countless numbers of universes, that …

The past few days have been difficult. I’ve been awash in the pain of others, which is causing a huge resonance within myself.
What does that mean? It means I’m seeing a lot of suffering in the world right now. I’m getting a first-hand look at the pain and anguish and fear that our collective consciousness is experiencing and creating.
(And with that, I’m going on my third day of a migraine. Plus waves of fear and sadness.)
And, on the other hand, I’m hearing this message that we can change it, that …

Everybody’s life has struggles in it. We’re not here to transcend the struggle. We’re not here to even fight against it. We’re here to work and play through it. Our bodies hold us down, yet they give structure to our creative impulse. So do broken toasters and stubbed toes and that plant that’s dying in my garden.

The bravery of receiving love is to let the love just exist on its own.

Here’s an interesting statistic: The gross domestic product of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people.
How and why does that imbalance exist?
Here are a few more poverty facts for your viewing displeasure: Poverty Facts at WorldCentric.org
Wow, you came here for advice about the bravery of receiving and here I am showing you all the lack.
Law of Attraction advocates say that those that live in poverty are either drawing their poverty to them, or chose a life of poverty to learn more …

Toast is more likely to fall butter-side down. That’s scientifically proven.
Why? Why would things be like this? Why not live in a world where everything is easy-peasy?
Life is not about struggle. I want to make that clear from the get-go. Even though life can have struggles in it, struggles that wear us down, life is not about struggling.
Life is about co-creation. Co-creation can be a little messy.
I’d like to tell you about Isaac Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic. He explained creation this way.
God took part of himself and made …