Note: This blog first appeared at www.souldegree.com/blog. Have you found that the Covid19 pandemic is allowing you to make progress on projects that you had stalled on? To complete things that had gone uncompleted? Perhaps to clean closets, empty boxes, review old papers and photos? We certainly are doing these things in our family. There is a process that I started at age 6 or at age 33--depending on how I think about it--that I’d like to move one step further on today in t

Note: This blog first appeared on www.SoulDegree.com/blog. It was one month ago--March 13--that my kids’ schools were shut down because of Coronavirus. When the announcement of the closure came, it was paired with the news that schools would reopen today, April 13. Well, you can guess...my kids are not in school today. At least not physically. Attendance at school here in Virginia has been canceled for the remainder of the year. In honor of this one month of being more or les

Note: This blog first appeared on www.SoulDegree.com/blog. My wife is a yoga teacher. The other day in her (online) class--which you can catch here--she talked about the miraculous fact that before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it literally liquefies inside its chrysalis and, from that liquid, goopy state, transforms itself into a beautiful butterfly. Nature has a billion miracles to share with us if we just take time to notice them. Surely the caterpillar’s metamorphosi