Adventure Time!

Adventure Time!

I am super excited this morning headed to the airport with Ani.  We’re off to Jombang, East Java, for a long planned, three day, Training of Trainer Workshop in a part of Indonesia where ecobricks have been really taken off.  Our friends Shanti and Setio (who...
Ani and I

Ani and I

My work sharing ecobricks in Indonesia has been super charged this year through my partnership with Ani Himawati. A movement has been ignited in Jogjakarta which now has a life and unfolding of its own.  Tens of thousands of people, soon to be in the hundreds of...
Love is Acceptance

Love is Acceptance

Echarte Tolle writes that.  He talks about how Love works in relationships and how it means pure acceptance.  Loving somebody, means loving every part of them– the good and the bad. But wait.  That’s exactly the issue. Love doesn’t even see...
Non Violent Communication

Non Violent Communication

I just came across a brilliant lecture series on non-violent communication.  WOW.  Fantastic stuff. For those of you who haven’t heard of this approach to consciously using our language to make interactions life enriching, I highly suggest checking it out.  The...
A Year of Love, Trash and Transmutation

A Year of Love, Trash and Transmutation

It has been a year now, to the day, since I met my love Bianca.  It all began on a moonlit night on a stroll around the village Church.  A year later with this great gal and, boy, have we taken out the trash. It’s a funny thing to say, but it is true. My Dad...

Relaaaationships!

I once had a musician friend who would strum a chord on his guitar and sing a long and melancholically the word “Reeellaaaaationships!”The thought makes me smile. Relationships make me smile! I’ve been thinking about Relationsnips lately. Why not...