Walking with History, Watching the Shift

I am pretty lucky. We live in an amazing moment of planetary transition and I am bouncing around the globe witnessing it.I once wanted to be a journalist so that I could travel and witness the world like this. However, in fact my experience without a press pass is...

A Dream in the City of Love

Chilling here at a cafe in Manila, a looong way from Verona Italy, I reminisce. Here is a poem that I never posted.You never know when your moment together will end, so while you can love, full, and with all your being. There’s simply no more beautiful thing to...

At least I am alive.

Well… At least I am alive.Yep. I am Alive. Like really alive. As the city of Manila looms large around me I just found out from my disapointed parents that I didn’t get this big grant that I applied for through the Canada Council of the Arts.Fuck the...

Kyle, Mandalas & I

Last night, I headed downstairs with a mission. I was determined to find someone to invite out for dinner. But before I could even get out the door, the unthinkable happened– someone invited me out first!Kyle is a 19 year old college kid staying in my building....

I don’t understand

I wrote this a week or two ago, when I was a little down after Abby and I got back from the beach at Borocay, Philipines…—–How is that I can travel around the world and have such profound and soul touching experiences everywhere I go? My life is...

[1] A dozen faiths unite in Oneness in Manila

Here’s great portrait of several dozen folks being the new world of Oneness that is the joyful celebration we all want it to be! A dozen faith groups, from Tibetan to Batayan, from Mormons to Sihk, all got together in Manila for an Interfaith celebration. Each...

2.5 Million

2.5 Million or so.That is how many Philipinos were listening to us last night on the radio! When Irina asked me to join her on a talk radio show, for some reason I thought it was going to a little hobby affair based in someone’s basement.Nope. 9th floor of a...