Gifts of Gratitude for your day of Thanksgiving

Want to catch you early, so tomorrow you can be with family, hopefully having a wonderful time. I want to share with you a couple of reasons to make every day a day of Thanksgiving, as well as every meal. This world we live in can sometimes be an intense place....

Grateful hearts gather and overflow

I’ve just returned home from a beautiful weekend retreat at the Shadhiliyya Sufi Center in Pope Valley, California – the center where the UOS classes are held. The weekend was intended to be a time to sit with our guide, Sidi, and say farewell before he leaves the US...

The Grateful Dead had it right too…

As we’re preparing for a new Year 1 class to begin, I was thinking about the weeks before my first school session. Of course there’s a story! It makes me smile and bow my heart in gratitude every time I think about it. At the time, I was working for IBM in...