by sandra | Jun 25, 2021 | 2021
“In the end, it doesn’t matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away.” Shing Xiong* I am currently staying at a home in the Berkeley Hills with an...
by sandra | May 19, 2021 | 2021
A dream come true has landed in my lap. A stunning north Berkeley home with an expansive, beautifully landscaped garden, has been gifted to me as a home base for a month. A month! It was exactly the vision I put out last year, then as part of my personal practice, I...
by sandra | Apr 14, 2021 | 2021
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” Woodrow...
by sandra | Mar 10, 2021 | 2021
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson As I’m writing this, it’s just past dawn and the cardinals are singing. There’s a myriad of things right in front of me where I could place my...
by sandra | Feb 10, 2021 | 2021
“The Art of Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook” William James One of the most powerful skills to learn is finding simplicity in the moment of overwhelm. My friend Abby references her Dad, a Miami contractor, stopping her when she used to begin spinning...
by sandra | Jan 15, 2021 | 2021
“I cannot but see you as myself.It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, “I Am That.” Although there still may be more violence in the days to come, this week we clearly saw the simmering anger, fear and...
