June 2025 As the pages of my diary flipped rapidly closer to June 2025, a song began running through my mind… a song I hadn't heard in years. It was from the Broadway musical of 1951, Paint Your Wagon, a Lerner and Loewe collaboration. It's not their most well-known or best...
(Euterpe oleracea) Family: Arecaceae
Also known as: Assai Palm, Pina Palm, Euterpe Palm or Cabbage Palm in some regions – but don’t confuse it with the Sabal Palmetto – called by that same name – which grows profusely throughout the Southeastern U.S. and parts of the Caribbean. Origin: Eastern Amazonia,...
"I would like you to distinguish between what you have to do and what you want to do.
You may believe that there are many things that you have to do. You have to go to work. You have to make money. You have to pay your bills. You have...
To my American friends—so many of you here in Puerto Vallarta, living with open hearts, fairness, and respect for all walks of life—this poem is for you. Crossing the Line is a tribute, a reflection, and a hope—for the soul of a country, and those still holding her hand. E.Z.
We crossed...
It's been mostly birds, a week of birds. Five bluebirds down the chimney into the cold wood stove, ashy and terrified. I got four out, two flying madly, miserably through the house (here's the routine: close all inside doors, open all outside doors, or try to gently catch them...
Also known as Macaw Fat TreeOrigin: Angola and GambiaAs discussed in my book The Civilized Jungle, Volume I"I am rather conflicted regarding this beautiful palm, as part of the terrible out–of–control deforestation of the magnificent (and critical to humanity's survival) South American Rain forest is being done to create...
Please share this with as many of you as you wish. It came on the morning of the 21st, and to me, this is the most important message for those who wish to follow a 'spiritual' life. S.B.
“There is so much joy contained in your Self, which you covered for eons playing...
by Paul GreenRepublished with permissionThere may come a moment — maybe slowly, maybe suddenly — when you realize the life you’ve been building doesn’t really feel like yours anymore.It’s not that anything is “wrong.”From the outside, maybe everything looks fine.But inside, you feel tired in a way that sleep...
In the heart of Puerto Vallarta, I’ve been graced by the presence of women who do not age quietly. They embody art in motion—laughing louder, loving deeper, and wearing each year like paint upon canvas. This tribute is for them and for all who dare to age like fire...
May 2025Has your heart become your internal compass? Has your heart set the orienting arrow for you to follow? Our hearts know only love—are you heading in that direction? With this month’s 14/5 frequency resonating in, around, and through us, a watershed moment in our personal growth and evolution...
