Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve been AWOL from blogging for almost two years, concentrating on our print magazine because, well, I happen to love magazines.

I love the feel of paper, the great art, the hard deadlines for sending files to the printer, the flow and feel of it all. And I love the fact that magazines have editors. Even as editor-in-chief, I have to (get to) run my words past other editors who tell me bluntly whether or not the words seem worth the sacrifice of the trees it takes to print them. We write, rewrite, and rewrite again before we print anything. It’s a team effort and the ideas are better for the workings of a great team.

But a blog… it seems so much a solo effort. A lonely effort. Throwing a bottle into an ocean already littered with too many bottles. With so little commitment on either side, why bother?

But of course a blog can also be a team effort – and that’s what I hope will happen here. After almost twelve years of editing this magazine, I know that we have come up with some great tools for transformation. We’ve learned so much about how to make lives better, and how to contribute to the wellbeing of our planet. We have special tools to share – and we’ve created some new web pages that may in fact be the best way to share them. We simply don’t know.

So please, check them out. See if they help. If only for a few minutes become a member of this team that is dedicated to figuring out what might best be called “reality based” spirituality. Join us in being willing to look at everything we believe and everything we think we know to become the best possible people we can. Share what you think is right, what you think is wrong. Whether or not you choose to join us for any period of time is of course up to you. But I for one will feel grateful to everyone who shares a moment to be an editor, a co creator. Maybe we can create a bigger and better team, something more fun even than the print business.

Best

Steve