Lordflea and her consort, Carter I’m reading my first graphic novel: “Are You My Mother?” by Alison Bechdel and suddenly I’m wondering if I could do something as insightful, a...
I’m writing an ebook! “Nurturing Self, Nurturing Others” the time to nurture the world is NOW This post is an excerpt where I’m discussing how to the third of the only 3 Non-R...
Hi Everyone! Thought you’d enjoy this drawing that I’ll tell you about it after you look at it for a moment. identifying with the Teacher Within each of us is part of everyone and everyth...
nurturing Self, nurturing Others--then nurture the World In the process of nurturing, many positive patterns are developed in a human being. Think of the much-loved infant that gets constantly cuddle...
this essay was submitted to the contest run by the Ethicist column of the NYTimes magazine, about this question… Why it’s Ethical to Eat Meat we are ONE I’m always vocal when other yogis ...
Choose to Change—and start nurturing yourSELF right NOW! In the process of nurturing, many positive patterns are developed in a human being. Think of the much-loved infant that gets constantly cuddle...
What to do with Others Karmic Tugs and Pulls Following the ray of light that leads us to change, we often run into others’ problems or challenges that inadvertently affect our being able to fee...
Deciding to Change Your Life 1. Develop new, better habits Give yourself 90 days to learn how to: Eat better (educate yourself). Exercise more. Surround yourself with positive people and influe...
Everything is a CHOICE in life — how we let anything, anyone, any place affect us at least Everything begins with thought --- everything! Choice is thought in action Sometimes a person who is ...
Breaking out! Doing what we're meant to do ... Hi Friends, You might have noticed the last two posts are different in that I’m discussing how I came to marry a man who was a “single ...
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Dealing with what Is Sometimes the Universe presents us with what we think we can’t handle but — it happens anyway. (Note: dear Readers, I have made the switch to a Mac and am sprawled out on t...
In the next coming posts I will be sharing with you the ideas I want to record before I forget all I learned when i was actively raising my husband’s children, whom I referred to as “My A...
Hi friend who suffers from the doldrums, depression, or the deep dark of despair. I hope you get this, or a friend who cares sends it to you. I just wanted to reach out to you to tell you that I unde...
Down-Dog Nut High in the computer-free cloud forest of Costa Rica two weeks ago, another vacationing yoga teacher handed me the NY Times magazine article on by W. Broad with the dismaying title that ...
i’ m writing from perhaps the most beautiful place in the entire world; a tiny village on top of one of many high peaks in the cloud forest here, in Costa Rica. The pueblo is called La Florida,...
Traveling in paradise, literally, because Costa Rica is not only a beautiful jungle dream land but also a country that has no army, so therefore all its resources, economic and humanitarian, are devo...
Friends, Greetings of the season to all of you, no matter what (or maybe not) you celebrate this time of year. After speaking with a gorgeous blond female professor of philosophy last night at a Chri...
Hi friends! Writing from Manhattan, where I’ve come to visit good friends, play with them and others, see some shows, visit some museums, and — deliver my novel “Heart Island”...
Friends, Cutting to the chase for those short-attention-spanners looking to slim down: PLEASE do yourself a favor and check out my new friend Sierra Goodman’s website that is dedicated to helpi...
Hi friends, I’m thinking about why I write/illustrate/maintain Lordflea. This is what’s on my mind today and want to share with you some thoughts. from my Heart to yours A lot of blogs ar...
Dear friends, I’ve been thinking how to express that the Occupy movement is not only necessary, but inevitable. This is a test—for me a writer, as a thinker, as a spiritual warrior. As we...
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Years ago my consort Carter and I took a vacation down to Playa del Carmen, which in those days, had very few tourists. I challenged Carter to go to the nudie beach ...
A month now, it’s been since the OCCUPY demonstrators first gathered in New York City’s Wall Street, spreading quickly out into many other American cities, and now I hear, the movement is...
♫♪ ♪♫♪ It’s wintertime when I go on a short visit to friends in Florida. Equipped with my trusty neoprene wetsuit, I stop on the beach before entering the frigid Gulf of Mexico waters off Siesta Key ...
Why do you think the topic of willingness to change comes after Finding the Courage (see the previous Maya post, September 15) instead of before it? I’m asking that to help gather my thoughts. Origin...
17 years ago, I was attending Harvard’s Reunion with my husband (he’s class of ’68) that was held during the school’s regular commencement time in late spring. Among the guest...
(this is the 5th installment in “Maya’s Book of Change.” First installment began July 17, 2011) When I found myself at a certain stage of readiness to change, and had come to the en...
THIS kind of rap I dig! a lot! Be the change, my friends! The Gandhi Rap – be the change u want to see, posted with vodpod Filed under: Uncategorized
Maya says it all. There’s nothing more to add, really, except love. Love your own self and you will truly be human, and then you will see we are all One. I am a Human Being – Maya Angelou...
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