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A sense of authenticity is one of our deepest psychological needs, and people are more hungry for it than ever. Even so, being true to oneself is not for the faint of heart.

Recently, I found myself in the middle of a contentious debate on Larry King Live sandwiched between President Obama's longtime personal physician, Dr. David Scheiner, and Dr. Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican member of Congress from Texas.

While on internet radio last night I found a station playing "carnatic" music from India. Here's the description, it's lovely music. the station is on iTunes.

This is a good video

I just think this is a cute pic. Poor little bikey is all pooped out... ;)

Teaching and tramping the world over

Dwindling Southwest Water Resources - During the drought we have experienced over the past several years across much of the desert Southwest – including southern California, southern Nevada, southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas – our water tables have fallen, wetlands have diminished, stream flows have dwindled and lakes have contracted.   More...

In the Land of Relationship, there is nothing truer than the age-old adage that hindsight is 20/20. We invest enormous amounts of energy trying to figure out how fucked up the "other" person was. We are driven to look at what was wrong with the other person because it is a way of being self-protective, as in, "if I know what is wrong with him/her I won’t ever be with someone like that again. Oddly enough, relationships just don’t work like that. Knowing what was wrong with your former partner will not fix it so that you don’t get screwed over again. There is only one way to avoid that and it is by looking at yourself. In a nutshell, the question isn’t "what was wrong with "Ex"?". The vital question is " How the hell did I get so stupid?" If you are feeling a little squirmy and uncomfortable right now as you read those words, you just know you have some thinking to do.