Lessons from NPR's/WBUR's podcast OnPoint, a great piece this week called "Is it time to abandon the "tough love" approach to addiction?"

A compelling new short film, Turkey, is dedicated to my brother’s memory. The why is a surprising story.

Community is a tool of transcendence, allowing us to feel belonging, security and joy. Place and space, argues a spiritual organization, is essential for building community.

It is encouraging to think that the elation we feel with an occurrence of awe may be a molecule of anatta, and is available to all of us in the simplest of life events.

A look at how stigma is inhibiting our response to the substance use crisis, generated based on reaction to Beth Macy’s Raising Lazarus, her follow-on to Dopesick.

A highly recommended book. Keltner identifies eight typologies of awe, delivers compelling conclusions, and I give my best understanding of the relationship between awe and transcendence

How do the ideas in the book Awe, by Dacher Keltner, overlap with Everyday Transcendence?

Few things in life feed our souls like friendship. Reconnecting with friends is an everyday transcendence.

Daniel Levinson identified stages in a man’s life in his 1978 book, and I map those onto Pete’s life.

I’ve always loved the word “paradox”, and hearing it on a recent podcast got me thinking about it.

On Pete’s birthday, I reflect on the year since I've embarked on the project to commemorate Pete's life in a book.

First lessons in transcendence through the written word, thanks to a writing workshop and Toni Morrison.

Putting this blog out there into the world requires overcoming fear - a transcendent moment.

My project to tell the story of my brother’s life requires research, and research requires uncomfortable tasks, like cold calling.

Today I found my brother’s pen, that I’d taken over forty years ago..

It was time to leave the working world and find my best life, by joining the Great Resignation. Part Three includes questions for readers to consider and to engage in the conversation.

It was time to leave the working world and find my best life, by joining the Great Resignation. Part 2 of 3 describes how the constraints of time became apparent, and that the topic of transcendence and substance misuse have become my missions.

In midlife, I found it time to leave the working world and find my life, by joining the Great Resignation.