Open Your Heart
“Open Your Heart” © by Mitch Lewis Life as we know it. Or think that we do. Always changing. What we believe and might knew. Our time is so short. Still waters run deep. Mountains don’t move. But [...]
She Found Her Voice
Once Stifled and Suppressed, Susan Overland Finally Said Yes to Her Real Self Susan Freeman looked through the windshield of her “crappy brown Datsun” at the steady rain that had brought rush hour traffic to a standstill on a darkening [...]
An Irishman In The Jungle
Aidan Grimes Found His Purpose in a Bold Leap and a Long Journey I sat on a stone bench with my sons Jeremy and Nick as the moon rose over the mountains above Isurava, Papua New Guinea. We stared at [...]
No Missed Opportunities
When Her Dream Came Knocking, Robin Hauser Opened the Door Wayne Gretzky is famously quoted as saying “You miss 100% of the shots you never take”. In 2015, the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival premiered a documentary film called CODE: Debugging [...]
Music, Magic, and The Meaning Of Life
How Miha Pogacnik Helps Transform the World Through Music and Art Violinist Miha Pogacnik is a modern-day wizard. True, in recent decades, words like that have lost their meaning through misuse and marketing hyperbole. When anyone with something to sell [...]
Ode to Everest
Mitch Lewis Looking into the sky, What would I face? Would I only try? Or just try to keep pace? The icefall it rose, And tumbled and fell, As if in a pose, That looked all pell-mell. [...]
Ten Principles to Pursue our Purpose with Passion in the New Year
It’s that time of year again we all look forward to, or dread, making our New Year’s Resolutions. Rather than focusing on immediate things like weight or exercise, I try to also look at the longer-term goals of my life. [...]
The ABCs of Embracing Each Other (and the 2020 Holidays)
Four years ago, my wife and I took an eye-opening train trip from Lhasa (Tibet) to Wuhan (China); about 2,500 miles on the “Sky Road”. It is renowned as the highest railway in the world climbing to a height of [...]
Giving Gratitude in 2020
WE HAVE so much to be grateful for this year. We are more appreciative of our good health than any other year; awareness of our mortality has caused us to experience nature in a way we may never have before. [...]
Giving Thanks – Ten Years On
November 21, 2010 “Are you happy sir?” … I heard in what seemed to be a far off voice. I said, “What do you mean?” I’m walking through the slums of Soweto with my tour guide Life (his real [...]
