“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom...

Fifty years have flown by at supersonic speed. I can flash back on memories of my childhood and adolescence and remember them clearly as...

In these troubling times, it seems like the world could go off a cliff at any moment. I remember what it was like in the nineteen-sixties...

This is the prologue to the new edition of “Three Days to Darkness.” I’ve extensively rewritten the original novel (first published in...

“Fields of Gold” is one of Sting’s most famous songs. It is a stunning and thoughtful track about the journey of commitment. The song...

I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...

A photographic interpretation of the Kate Wolf song “Muddy Roads.” Visit http://www.davidgittlin.net  for the full post titled “Through...

I choose to wander in sunlight to avoid the riptide of darkness threatening to engulf our world. I prefer to see and hear beauty. I...

Six years ago, I attended a seminar presented by Saniel Bonder titled “The Sun in Your Heart is Rising–Activating Your Embodied...

“The path forward may sometimes be unclear. And it may be messy. But the shared heart is calling, and we have an opportunity to make...

Go beyond the mundane mutterings of mind I tell myself Into a broader perspective Into a deeper reservoir of peace and love within Dive...

To say there is a lot going on these days is an understatement. To say most of it is very troubling will not shock anyone. To ask, “What...

I’m taking a ten-week online course about awakening to consciousness. One of the teachers in the course made some statements in a video...

I am constantly amazed that people wander around all day staring into their smart phones, as if these devices somehow magically fulfill...

Waiting for a connecting flight from San Francisco on my way home to Fort Lauderdale, I look around me at the faces of my fellow early...

What Do You Really Need? There are things in this world that promise satisfaction, and we launch into the quest to have these things...

Let the sky break open and burn a deep azure blue. Let the ripening fields explode in the warmth of the shimmering sun. Let God fall down...

To experience serenity, I think of the word “see.” To feel serene, I remember that a wise person sees the big picture. From this...

I don’t know anything anymore I don’t know up from down Or east from west Or happiness from sadness I don’t know anything It’s becoming...

Where is my playground now? I want to romp in sunlit fields. Like I did when I was younger. But there are no open fields now like there...