David Daniel's Blog, page 15

The Joy of Kindling

As the winter nights while away and the dawn of spring approaches, I am left feeling contemplative.  The world’s wonderment lays before my eyes and I fundamentally understand that both beauty and chaos can be perceived by those very eyes.  I have come to understand it is I that must seek the very beauty that […]

This Too Shall Pass

I remember a time many years ago when I was much younger and far more prone to allow the outside world to affect me that I came to my father with something that was troubling me.  In hindsight, for the life of me, I cannot remember what was troubling me at the time however I […]

Be the Lighthouse

“Remaining steady and constant, a lighthouse never moves for a ship; instead, it shines its eternally light, waiting for the ship in distress to arrive.” A lighthouse is a tower, building, or another type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots […]

Snow Day

Snow fell on Texas.  This isn’t a common occurrence and when it does happen it seems time stops just a little bit for those that are graced with its semi-annual presence.  Usually, in alternating years snow will sneak up on North Texas and give us a light dusting that becomes the talk of the community.  […]

The Wisdom Series

“Build a Covenant.” Messages come during Sadhana.  It’s inevitable that when we quiet the mind nuggets of inspiration break through the silence demanding action. “Build a covenant.” This message poured into my soul and I wasn’t even certain exactly what it meant.  If truth be told, I had to look up the word “covenant” to […]

The Age of Aquarius

The link between destruction and transformation is incredibly thin.  Oftentimes, it is simply perspective that defines that line and one person’s destruction truly is another person’s transformation.  The year 2020 was certainly that test for many of us.  A year that started with similar hopes as previous years was quickly replaced by a moment in […]

Who Am I?

Such a profound question with seemingly a myriad of answers.  There are some sages who dug much deeper than the externals of the question and came away with answers that could very well break the code of the mysteries of the Universe.  The masters asked questions few of us consider however if we can understand […]

Dr. Doolittle Calling…

(For my father on his birthday, may you forever Rest In Peace.) Adi and I have moved back to Mansfield, Texas.  We are living on her family’s 5-acre property and although I proclaimed vociferously that I would never leave the city 2020 has shattered all norms and made all of us adapt into something we […]

The Art of Burning

There is an incredible amount of healing that can manifest through the art of burning wood.  I have often maintained that trees are the masters among us.  Trees sit in perfect being-ness never allowing outside environmental circumstances to ever alter their state of peace.  Surely, trees do have to sway and bend from time to […]

Next Right Step

My faith deepened.  I was pushed so far out of my comfort zone that the only thing I could do was surrender.  This was 2020.  A year when metaphorically we were meant to see clearer, instead we were left to investigate our lives in an entirely different manner.  All things that no longer served us […]