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David’s Desk Archives
DAVID’S DESK #122 – BEING GAIA
David’s Desk is my opportunity to share thoughts and tools for the spiritual journey. These letters are my personal insights and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the sentiments or thoughts of any other person in Lorian or of Lorian as a whole. If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free Read more…
David’s Desk #121 – Thank You
David’s Desk is my opportunity to share thoughts and tools for the spiritual journey. These letters are my personal insights and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the sentiments or thoughts of any other person in Lorian or of Lorian as a whole. If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free Read more…
DAVID’S DESK #120 – PAPER
PAPER These days, at least twice daily, I stop whatever I’m doing and take a moment to stand in peace. It’s a simple thing to do. It’s certainly helpful to me, and given that we’re all part of an interconnected, interdependent world, I believe it’s helpful in the larger scheme of things. I would like Read more…
DAVID’S DESK #119 – DISCERNING NEWS
Since my last “David’s Desk”, a friend has died at the age of 117. We’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship for the past thirty-three years, but this past year, we’d gotten close again. The death came as a shock. What died is our local newspaper, the Issaquah Press, which first started business in 1900. It Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #118 – FLYOVER STATES
DAVIDS DESK #118 – FLYOVER STATES Back in the days when I was regularly traveling to give lectures and workshops, I always tried to drive to wherever I needed to go. If time were an issue, then I would take a plane, but otherwise, I loved road trips. I loved seeing the various parts of Read more…
DAVID’S DESK #117- ALTERNATIVE FACTS
David’s Desk is my opportunity to share thoughts and tools for the spiritual journey. These letters are my personal insights and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the sentiments or thoughts of any other person in Lorian or of Lorian as a whole. If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #116 – CHOICES
First and most importantly, let me wish you a very happy, prosperous, blessed, and healthy New Year as we welcome 2017 into our midst. New Year’s is always a special time filled with the promise of new possibilities. Of course, every day presents us with this same promise, but it’s more heartfelt at this Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #115 – TIS THE SEASON
David’s Desk is my opportunity to share thoughts and tools for the spiritual journey. These letters are my personal insights and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the sentiments or thoughts of any other person in Lorian or of Lorian as a whole. If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free Read more…
DAVID’S DESK #114 – ELECTION
For those of my readers who live in the United States, this month we will be electing a new President. A few days from when I write this, half the population will be relieved, hopeful and happy and the other half will be depressed, angry, and fearful. It’s been that kind of political campaign, Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #113 – SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOATS
DAVID’S DESK #113 – SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOATS I’ve been reading an interesting book this week in preparation for an online Forum that James Tousignant and I are doing this first week of October about the current electoral tumult and how to be a center of clarity and calm in the midst of it. Called The Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #112 – AGENCY
I just finished reading an excellent book, Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance. On the surface, it’s an account of the author’s childhood and young adulthood growing up as part of the hillbilly culture in Appalachia and southwestern Ohio. More deeply, it’s a look at a part of the population of the United States—the white working Read more…
DAVIDS DESK #111: SAFETY
As a teacher, one of my primary objectives in all of my classes over the years has been to create a safe environment. I have wanted the people who honor me with their time, money, and trust to feel safe when they put themselves into my educational hands. Not all spiritual teachers share this objective, Read more…
David’s Desk #110 – Brexit
DAVID’S DESK #110 – BREXIT It’s not often that one can say unequivocally that one is in the middle of a truly historic event. But with “Brexit,” the UK’s vote to sever its relationship with the European Union, such a moment is upon us. The effects are reverberating around the globe financially, politically, and socially, Read more…
David’s Desk #109 – In Memoriam
David’s Desk is my opportunity to share thoughts and tools for the spiritual journey. These letters are my personal insights and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the sentiments or thoughts of any other person in Lorian or of Lorian as a whole. If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free Read more…
DAVID’S DESK # 108 — BEING SUBTLE
As long-time readers of David’s Desk or any of my books know, for me the world is not simply the physical reality I perceive with my body’s senses. It also has a non-physical counterpart, a subtle world, that is as much a part of the Earth’s wholeness as the oceans or the sky, the forests Read more…
Davids Desk #107 – Collaboration
A GUEST COLUMN A theme I often return to in these essays is that of collaboration, the idea that together we can bring insights and actions into the world that complement and extend what we can do singly. For me, the individual in his or her uniqueness is one of God’s miracles; each person’s sovereignty Read more…