I’ve started an exercise routine of swimming to the lighthouse and back. (Actually, it’s not really a lighthouse—it’s more of a light-tower.) It’s probably close to a kilometre away, and takes me about 45 minutes, depending on the wind,…

With all the breakdowns going on in our world today—financial, environmental, social, political—it’s real easy for us to fall into an “us and them” mindset (the perp’s and the victims).

Actually, scratch that. We’re already IN that mindset. And…

Except if I get stressed about it. Then,…

I’ve had a bit of a wake-up call.

I generally don’t watch the news—or listen to it on the radio, or read it on the internet. And I seldom participate in conversations about what’s going on in the world…

NOTE: Artist Sayaka Ganz sees a second life in discarded objects (i.e. garbage), as seen in the picture above.

Every morning here on the bay island of Utila, I walk to where our property meets the…

I was teaching my diving students the other day about buoyancy, and it occurred to me that it could be a great metaphor for moving through life.

When diving, we carry weights to take us down to where we…

Most of us have some fear or anxiety around diving in the open water.

And for obvious reasons—the sea is an inhospitable and dangerous environment; there are strange and vicious creatures lurking just out of view, waiting to maim…

In the movie Star Wars, Yoda said, “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

I think he said this to Luke Skywalker when Luke had to salvage his spaceship from the bog it had sunk into. Luke…

I was moved, today, as I pondered Richard Bach’s quote, “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” But not for the reason you might think.

It’s such an apt metaphor for our…