UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Back to Nature: A spiritual gathering with Mark Stevens at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation
Location: Ward Pound Ridge Reservation
Meeting Place: Trailside Museum Parking Lot
Date: Saturday January 26, 2008
Time: 12 noon – 1pm
Ward Pound Ridge Reservation means something special to us all. It is a place that helps dreamer

One day a few years ago as I was being wheeled down to the Operating Room for major surgery, a nurse asked me to name my favorite prayer. With less than a second of thought, I said the 23rd psalm and in an instant we were reciting it together.

Many of us are dream chasers, like kites floating through the Western sky, the dreams captivate and drive us. Running after them, feeling the wind in our face, we are exhilarated. Intoxicated. If we can only catch the kite, grab hold of the dream, we will pass through to another dimension. We will understand [...]

We live our lives believing there are sharply defined and crystal clear moments of truth. Moments when we are struck with an epiphany and have to change something in our worlds. And myth has it that these earth shattering slices of time prompt us to dramatically change who and what we are.
But the fact is, [...]

I watched an interview with former world figure skating Dorothy Hamill, who I remember so well for her electric style and breezy great looks on the ice, now revealing the unknown story of a life pocked with depression. Yesterday, I watched old men sob, remembering vicious battlefields and the horrendous loss of buddies, all 19 [...]