In case you’ve wondered how on God’s green earth someone goes from writing the biggest, loudest, most obnoxious car dealer ads in the history of big, loud obnoxious car dealer ads to writing a neo-spiritual-voodoo-curious epic poem in the style of Dr. Seuss, here’s the rest of the story. Listen in as I chat with Lindsay […]
Welcome to the Be Kind Club.Abiding in kindness for ourselves, for others, for the world around us. Join the club. The Be Kind Club aka The Coalition for Human Kindness publishes books, audio books, and a podcast showing how kindness can change everything. When you join the Be Kind Club, you’ll be helping us put more kindness out […]
The Spine Bookshop is having its 2nd Anniversary celebration this weekend. Dozens of local authors will be there telling their tales. We all know it’s Amazon’s ocean, but owner Lindsay Schultz and The Spine are a liferaft for Middle Tennessee’s local authors helping us get our words out into the real world one happy reader at a time. I’ll […]
Yesterday I watched two deer nap for an hour, held a tadpole in my bare hands & made up close and personal eye contact with an oddly curious squirrel all while sitting on my deck less than a mile from one of the busiest interstates in the southeastern US. Just a wee bit of kindness to […]
Here Come The Nothing Headswritten by Terry Lancaster narrated by Edoardo Ballerini published by the Coalition for Human Kindness An epic poem for children of all ages, Here Come The Nothing Heads tells the tale of Sneezy McSneezerson, Grouchy McGroucherson, and Fluffy McFlufferson who live in the fanciest pumpkin high atop Pumpkin Ridge until they are banished by […]
Signed copies of the best selling zen fairy tale Here Come The Nothing Heads are now available at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin, TN It just doesn’t get more Tennessee than this. Landmark Booksellers is housed in the oldest commercial building in Franklin, TN about twenty miles south of Nashville. Built circa 1808, The Old Factory Store […]
Tune in to these zen audiobooks and tune out the noise that keeps you from finding your way home Here Come The Nothing HeadsWritten by Terry Lancaster Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini Published by the Coalition for Human Kindness.Last year, I went down the zen audiobook rabbit hole. I mean all the way down. Up until then, the only audiobooks […]
These Zen children’s books can help your kids look at the world in a whole new, deeply connected way by introducing the seed concepts of the ancient philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen. Share 0 Share 0 Tweet 0 Here Come The Nothing HeadsIf Dr. Seuss, the Dalai Lama, and Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski walked […]
Meditation is the art of becoming intimately familiar with the present moment. That’s great when the present moment is like today’s sit was. Perfect 76 degrees. The sun shining. The birds chirping. My mind was happy to cooperate. It’s not always like that. Some days are cloudy. Chilly. Punctuated by random interruptions from mankind and machinery. And some […]
For years, I hated cleaning the pool. Hated it. It was frustrating. I was constantly thinking to myself and saying out loud to anyone who would listen. “Why am I the one cleaning the pool? I don’t even swim it!” I tried everything to get out of cleaning the pool. For a while we had […]
