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...

There is beauty within us. There is beauty everywhere in the world. All we have to do is to want to feel it and see it. Even in the...

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...

“Lay me Down Easy” is technically a blues song. To me, the song sounds upbeat with a whisper of the blues in the background. And there’s...

I first heard “Cornflower Blue” as the opening song on Kate Wolf’s 1983 double album “Give Yourself to Love.” As I listened to the...

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.* I wonder what secrets they keep. The moon paints the leaves with a blood-red stain. If I go in...

“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...

Are you stuck in the land of sadness? Do you always come back to this all-too-familiar place, no matter what you do to get out?...

Here’s the jumpy title song from Jackson Brown’s album “I’m Alive” (1993). The song is about Brown’s breakup with his longtime...

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 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...

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...

“The Sun in Your Heart is Rising.” Saniel Bonder I’ve been working towards a spiritual awakening for most of my adult life, and it seems ...