Driver’s Seat
Last December, a small group of us decided to host a caroling event for Christmas Eve at Maple Street Dance Space. (This was the first glimmering of what was to blossom into Bosque Center for Spiritual Living). Man oh man,…
Baked Goods
Not long ago, my niece Mary introduced me to "The Great British Baking Show." There are four seasons on Netflix, so I guess it’s been around a while. I know I’d heard of it before, but I’d never been all…
It Had To Be Hafiz
14th-century Persian poet and mystic Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, known today primarily by his pen-name “Hafiz,” wrote about Divine Love as a lusty, wine-soaked, personal ecstasy. He took aim at any religious hypocrisy that held human life as separate…
What a Piece of Work
Last week Travis and I visited the NM Natural History Museum to see the special Leonardo da Vinci exhibit. Before Leonardo, we popped in to the Planetarium to see a presentation — it was called “From Earth to the Universe,”…
Dare to Prosper
by Travis Chapman When I was asked if I would like to give the talk this week at Bosque Center for Spiritual Living, I knew immediately what I would talk about. Prosperity is one of my favorite topics because it…
Look Both Ways
I encountered a Rumi quote this week: "Every moment contains a hundred messages from God. For every cry of ‘Oh, God,’ He answers a hundred times, ‘I am here.’" At first I thought: how lovely, how reassuring — always, no…
My Kind of Church
We’re almost six months into this beautiful new adventure called “Bosque Center for Spiritual Living.” And for six months, we’ve been intentionally opening up to the sheer possibility of it all, allowing a space for the Infinite to express into…
Long Strange Trip
Wow, life can be bouncy. Most of you know that I buried my brother this week. I’m packing up to return to Albuquerque today, and I’m really ready to be home, to get back into some of the routine of…
Free Association
Aw hell, friends… Some weeks I really don’t know what to say. Spiritual principles and noble truths sound like feeble lip-service. I can’t make sense of humanity’s inhumanity. I don’t know how to answer it. Yeah, I’ll share angry Facebook…
Where It All Happens
It’s pretty easy to get overwhelmed in our busy lives. We live with a ridiculous amount of stress and pressure every day. And most of us adopted at some point along the way the idea that if we want to…