"People ask what enables me to remain optimistic, considering all that has happened in my homeland, Tibet....I see the basic good in human beings and know that their mistaken actions occur not because they are evil people but because their afflictions overwhelm them." His Holiness the Dalai Lama

While your ire is focused on the Criminal in Chief, don't forget how sophisticated phishing has become. Phone call from "Fraud Department" at bank using the bank's spoofed phone # alerting me to fraud was actually a phishing scheme for personal info.

The Earth is Speaking. Now. Can you hear her?

I had my mid life crisis at 28. I ran away to a cabin on the ocean, far from the urban rat race, but the trauma of bearing witness to a culture of killing - each other, the planet - hit me hard one day. All the tears of the world welled up inside me. My heart was crushed. And then....

I visited the Hopi reservation in 1989. They told me that every morning they pray for the sun to rise. As long as there are Hopi people still praying for the sun to rise, it will. I don't take that message literally, just to mean that by the power of their practice, this world will stay in balance.

I am happy that so many of my friends are marking themselves safe from the recent storm. Though prompted to do likewise, I am still not safe from the violent storms of the unenlightened mind that keeps me revolving through endless lifetimes in samsara. Therefore, I must renounce these inner demons.

An image of a desert sunrise in Washington state, looking west across a might river canyon towards hills filled with windmills and dreams full of infinite possibilitieis.