merching band: Archive

the last post

So it’s been a bit over a year of Merching Band with many changes of the tide and over 30,000 page visits. This - the 700th post - is going to be the last. Marking a new era and looking ahead to embark on a new, big, fat and juicy project: A life of Service. MB wasn’t ever anything fancy or orginal but just a collection of moments and inspirations. I hope if nothing else there was...

May 25th

“We hear much discussion about the front lines of...

- Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International.

May 15th

Belief and Tolerance: "Lights Amidst the Darkness" →

May 15th

Apr 22nd

“As you ascend, your love will turn to ecstasy. Ecstasy is the final stage of...”

– Deepak Chopra.

Apr 22nd

connectivity

 The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it. 
 - A New Heaven and New Earth, Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, from New Thought for a New Millenium
 If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. 
 - Jonas Salk

Apr 22nd

fifty people one question →

Apr 22nd

Apr 21st

Apr 15th

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this...

.- Oprah Winfrey.

Apr 15th

a manifesto for conscious men

Dear Woman: I come to you today as a man committed to becoming more conscious in every way. I feel deep love, great respect and a growing sense of worship for the gifts of the feminine. I also feel deep sorrow about the destructive actions of the unconscious masculine in the past and present. I want to apologize to you and make amends for those actions, in order to bring forth a new era of...

Apr 15th

“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in...

— Sally Kempton.

Apr 8th

open book →

Apr 8th

Mar 25th

Woman is light of God, not just the beloved. It is...

- Rumi.

Mar 25th

turning tables.

Under haunted skies I see Where love is lost, your ghost is found I braved a hundred storms to leave you As hard as you try, no I will never be knocked down Next time I’ll be braver I’ll be my own savior When the thunder calls for me Next time I’ll be braver I’ll be my own savior Standing on my own two feet I won’t let you close enough to hurt me, no I won’t...

Mar 25th