Nature Rx

Posted On Jun 9 2016 by

Enjoy these two fun videos.  They’re tongue-in-cheek spoofs of the omnipresent pharmaceutical ads on TV. Spoofs they are, but they advertise a real benefit that research incontrovertibly supports.  That’s cool but more importantly – your common sense will recognize the truth. Fact: Nature heals you.  Just like medicine, only  better. : ) My New Book in Progress I’m writing a book with the working title – Finding Home – How the Love of Place Restores You.  I’ll tell you more about this cool book in later posts. Note the on-screen text that zips by in these videos for more humor. …


Enjoy Postcards from Heaven

Posted On Jun 7 2016 by

I have started to play with Instagram as a way to deepen and share my connection to the Sacred Ordinary, Heaven in your back yard. As you know from my art books, I use drawing and sketching as a way to profoundly sweeten those connections.  My Instagram account will show my sketches and photos I take on my daily walks in beauty. I aim to inspire you to find magic on you daily journey.  It’s all about finding places you love, and appreciating the joy of the everyday wonders. I hope for you and for me that we can use …


What’s the Sound Track of Home?

Posted On Jun 1 2016 by

As I walked through the woods around my brother, John’s, house on Cape Cod, I listened to the sounds of home.  I heard Blue Jays, Robins, Cardinals, and Mourning Doves.  His woods are populated by many more birds, but those stuck out. Whenever I stepped outside the house where I grew up in northern Ohio, I heard those songs and calls.  They formed the sound track for home. My sound track for home now is quite different.  Love of place will always have a sound track.  When I was growing up, I didn’t know I had a sound track, but …


Deepen Your Topophilia – Find Heaven

Posted On May 12 2016 by

Deepen Your Topophilia & Find Heaven I love this small park, really, just this small section of the small park by the lake. I know the crows who visit, the squirrels that hop and zip, the robins singing and hunting, the sound of the waves gently lapping or crashing in winter storms, the low clouds zooming north along the lake, the sunrise peaking over the Cascades, the beaver chewed trees, the beavers passing through, the transcendent chirping of the widgeons, the honking I hear long before the Canada geese land, rippling through the water. I’ve watched the eagle spook the raft …


Get Good Answers, Fast – Read Books for Children

Posted On Apr 20 2016 by

Get Good Answers, Fast – Read Books for Children I’m working on my new book titled – I Know I’m Crazy.  Naturally, I will show ways for you to not be crazy and how to be enlightened, at least for moments. I have observed that people make up painful stories that hold little truth.  Even though the stories aren’t true, their bodies and minds and behavior all respond as if the stories were fact. Quick examples of painful stories – “I can’t do anything right.” “I’m such a failure.” “Nobody will ever love me.” “I have such ugly darkness in …


A Quintessential Seattle Sight

Posted On Apr 14 2016 by

A Quintessential Seattle Sight On my morning constitutional, I saw this heron standing on a post with the Space Needle in the background across Elliot Bay. Fun for me to see and draw – Iconic Seattle. In my book, Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child, I talk about making your own coloring book by inking in some outlines and then coloring in the rest of the image any way you want.  You can see I did just that here. Besides showing you a pretty picture, I want to point out that I colored it …


Can’t Get Back to Sleep?

Posted On Apr 5 2016 by

Can’t Get Back to Sleep? I rewrote, added to, fine tuned Foolproof Relaxation to make a more useful book for you –  Quiet Your Fear & Get Back to Sleep: Relax, Sleep Better, and Be at Ease Anytime, Anywhere You Want. Here’s a scenario – Three AM and the demons of worry are here.  “Groan!”  Toss and turn.  Get up.  Use the bathroom.  Get a drink of water.  Back in bed, the fears wait for you.  Still no sleep.  Thoughts racing and repeating… What to do? Obviously, you use the methods you will learn in this book, Quiet Your Fear …


Sabbatical Log

Posted On Mar 11 2016 by

Sabbatical Log People wonder what I do on my many sabbaticals.  Here’s what I did over the first two weeks in March. First, what is a sabbatical?  Sabbatical relates to Sabbath which in turn means rest.  The Sabbath and Sabbaticals set time aside so people can enjoy themselves and explore their connection to God.  For me, it’s about a period of time to connect to the Sacred more deeply. This doesn’t mean a time of solemn fasting and deprivation, but a time of joy and play.  Typically, I spend more time outdoors. As you may know, my most recent book, …


The Winner Is …

Posted On Mar 4 2016 by

The Winner Is You may have voted on which would be the best book cover. Although I liked them both, this won. Get the book now – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child  And … As the title implies, using the easy ideas in the book, you can create more fun and happiness in your life.  You can connect more deeply to those things you love. And most importantly for me, you can stop your chattering mind that keeps making up painful stories of fear and shame. Go for it => Color the Sky …


Judge this Book Cover, Please

Posted On Feb 16 2016 by

Don’t judge a book by its cover?  We do judge books by their covers all the time.  Please, help me pick a good one. But first – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child will be my forth book on art.  This one focuses on having fun. Here’s Why When you make art, you engage a superb form of mindfulness meditation, which returns you to the Sacred present moment.  You reap the same benefits of any enlightened meditation practice.  – Willendorf. Living a life you love wholeheartedly means living creatively.    No-one can give you this …


Review My New Book

Posted On Feb 14 2016 by

I Want Your Help.  Please Review My New Book I’ve just published my newest book on Amazon – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child.  I think you’ll like it. Like most of my other books, this one helps people become enlightened.  Naturally, I want to live in a world where people are enlightened vs. a world dominated by fear and fear mongers. I want you to feel more enlightened and happier in your daily life. This book can help. To get Color the Sky Yellow into the most hands, I need Amazon reviews.  The …


Big Magic

Posted On Jan 12 2016 by

Big Magic I tried to read massive bestseller, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  I didn’t get very far.  So unless my friend, TA, hadn’t passionately recommended Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth G, I would have missed it. Further, TA recommended I listen to it as an audio book because Liz reads it.  It feels like an encouraging conversation with an intimate friend especially if she talks directly into your ears through ear buds. I have recommend Big Magic to many clients, my daughters, and Suzanne.  I’m on my second time through. First, the book is for …


Beautiful Gifts to Discover the Sacred

Posted On Dec 19 2015 by

Beautiful Gifts to Discover the Sacred Consider giving the print versions of these books at the holiday. Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey   Paper Back Version       Kindle version Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life   Paper Back Version    Kindle version They’re pretty and fun.  More, these books can connect people to the Sacred.  What better for the holydays? One or both of these books may be a perfect fit for someone you love. Blessings of the season, William


Book Giveaway – Make Your Holidays Holy

Posted On Dec 18 2015 by

Book Giveaway You can have a free copy of Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life by going here. You will find this book Quite useful for making the holidays more Holy. Enjoy it.  Pass it on. Book is available for free starting Dec. 19th ending at midnight on Dec. 22, 2015 Go for it => Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life May you walk in beauty, William P.S.  Can I ask a quick favor. If you enjoyed this …


Honest Fat Loss and Strength Training

Posted On Nov 5 2015 by

Honest, Healthy Fat Loss and Strength Training I have been working with fat loss and weight control for decades.  And I have worked with fitness even longer. I have coached people in those areas as well.  Mostly, I have referred people to great resources – books, healers, and coaches. Now, I send people here – Metabolic Effect. My doctor, Amy Hobson, went to school with Jade and Keoni Teta and suggested that I work with them.  I have been following their fitness and eating suggestions ever since.  And referred clients to their book.  (Read my experience with the Slim Jim …


Slim Jim Diet – Honest Fat Loss

Posted On Oct 29 2015 by

Slim Jim Diet My body and I gain weight, add fat really easily.  I am sensitive to carbohydrates.  Very.  And I eat emotionally sometimes.  This makes for a tough combination if I want to maintain my high school weight. When I travel, I get fatter.  I visited the beloved Lesley in Santa Fe.  She cooks beautifully.  I eat.  I gain 5 pounds that trip. I visit Sasha, our youngest daughter at Washington State University, we eat in good restaurants.  I gain another 5 pounds. Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t. What I’m doing doesn’t work.  Try …


Book Giveaway This Month

Posted On Oct 2 2015 by

Book Giveaway This  Month I’m playing with the idea of giving two books away each month.  They will be available on the first two weekends of the month and the third Saturday.  Amazon lets me give books away on 5 days. The first one each month will be a bestseller.  The second, one of my lesser known books. This month, October, 2015, you can get and enjoy these two – Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and …


Book Giveaway This Month

Posted On Sep 3 2015 by

Book Giveaway This  Month I’m playing with the idea of giving two books away each month.  They will be available on the first two weekends of the month and the third Saturday.  Amazon lets me give books away on 5 days. The first one each month will be a bestseller.  The second, one of my lesser known books. This month, September, 2015, you can get and enjoy these two – Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace Foolproof Relaxation: How to Relax Your Mind Anytime, Anywhere  Consider writing a …


Drawing Cures Worry

Posted On Jul 30 2015 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 182) Everybody asks me what I’m think about when I’m dropping in.  You don’t hear anything.  You don’t think anything.  It just naturally happens. – Shaun White, Olympic Gold Medal Snowboarder You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Drawing Cures Worry I am a recovering worrywart.   Currently, I worry about my daughter, Zoe, who’s selling her …


Book Giveaway – Summer Fun

Posted On Jul 29 2015 by

Book Giveaway – Summer Fun Starting Saturday, August 1st, 2015 at 12:01 AM Pacific time and ending midnight on Sunday August 2nd I’ll be giving you the free Kindle version of Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life.     Why, because summer is a great time to start sketching? Why? Because you like to get outdoors, and sketching connects you to Nature and the Sacred in magical ways, sketching provides a wonderful channel to happiness. Enjoy this excerpt from the book – How Does Sketching and Writing Poetry Help You? You …


Happy Relationships – Free Book

Posted On Jul 17 2015 by

Happy Relationships – Free Book Starting 12:01 tomorrow, Saturday July 18, 2015 I will be giving away my Kindle book — Amazingly Content: How to Be in Love with All You See & Hear, And Be in Harmony with Family, Friends & Work Offer ends midnight Sunday, the 19th… Take advantage of this opportunity to make all your relationships more peaceful and happy. I use this simple science of reconciliation daily. It’s easy and fast. Joe Vitale introduced me to this Hawaiian method of Ho’oponopono by telling an amazing story that took place on a mental ward for the criminally …


Book Giveaway – Cool Summer Fun

Posted On Jul 10 2015 by

Book Giveaway – Cool Summer Fun When: Book giveaway starts July 11, 2015 at 12:01 PDT.  Ends Midnight July 14, 2015.   What: Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey Why Take Advantage of the Book Giveaway? ‘Cause it’s summer and drawing is a cool way to spend your time outdoors connecting with the Sacred. And, certainly, drawing or sketching can be one of the best and fastest ways to make love to the present moment.  Clearly, that will connect you with Heaven. Go for it => Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred …


What’s It Take to Live a Life You Love Wholeheartedly – Body and Soul?

Posted On Jun 2 2015 by

What’s It Take to Live a Life You Love Wholeheartedly – Body and Soul? Here’s the big life question: What’s It Take to Live a Life You Love Wholeheartedly – Body and Soul? Have you ever wanted your life to run more smoothly?  Have you ever felt you were missing an easier, more effective way to navigate life? Have you ever wished for help in figuring out your life? Clearly, my life coaching clients over the past 40 years have wanted to figure out their lives.  You want to figure out your life;  I want it, too. The fact that …


Wordlessness & Oneness – Heaven

Posted On Mar 11 2015 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington   You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Wordless Oneness – Heaven “Can it be that simple?” “Simpler…” she said, “it’s your native state after all.  You were born to spend most of your time …


Starved for Color? Feast on More Color

Posted On Feb 11 2015 by

Starved for Color?  Feast on More Color Winter serves up gray and dark in the northern latitudes.  I find I get starved for color and my attitude goes dark.  The solution?  Easy, consume more color.  Nay, feast on color. The last three winters, I have gotten a cold.  One of the causes may be not consuming enough color. If you live in the gray darkness, you know.  Enough suffering. To be happy, healthy and energetically creative, you might try feasting on color. Fun Ways to Get More Color Take field trips. Art museums and galleries. Conservatories.  The Volunteer Park Conservatory …


Your Sketch Is Precious

Posted On Feb 1 2015 by

Your Sketch Is Precious Let me tell you a story.  You may know that my dad was a premier art museum director.  I grew up in a home with masterpieces everywhere, and the museum, which was Dad’s second home, displayed some of the world’s best art. My mom sketched.  She did it for love and never thought much of her skills.  Dad framed a small piece of hers.  Just one. As they aged, they moved to smaller homes, selling off art on the way.  Mom’s sketch made with colored markers remained even into the last and smallest apartment Dad lived …


Sketching & Poetry Kindle Book Giveaway – Now

Posted On Jan 31 2015 by

  Sketching & Poetry Kindle Book Giveaway – Now On January 31, 2015, I will commence a giveaway of the Kindle version of my well loved book, Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life   Print Version    Kindle version. Offer ends February 4th, 2015 midnight Seattle time. Sketching can bring you quickly and easily into your right brain.  And by now, you know that’s where you want to be if you want to be connected to the Sacred.  If you want to feel peaceful, happy, joyous. And as the title says, “A Magically …


Urban Sketching as Path to Oneness

Posted On Dec 17 2014 by

Urban Sketching as Path to Oneness Can you find the Sacred even in the city? Finding the Sacred in Nature can almost be automatic.  The study of awe tells us that when people are confronted by stunning beauty in nature, they go into awe.  Their inner chatter quiets.  Connection and reverence for all of Life arises. Just as sketching in Nature can feed your soul, urban sketching can be a wonderful way to connect to the Sacred everywhere.  Gabriel Campanario, a sketch artist for the Seattle Times, put the term Urban Sketching on the map.  I like it. I invite …


The Pleasure of Making an Altar

Posted On Dec 12 2014 by

The Pleasure of Making an Altar Building an altar can be simple, easy, and playful.  And in this case, communal. And sometimes, rule breaking. “Dad, a jade plant is not a Christmas tree,” she said. “I beg to differ.  Jade’s sprit works for me.” The stuffed mouse was added by Suzanne.  The photo has been moved by several people.  What you can’t tell is that it is an image of an opened mouth, whistling marmot.  One of my totemic creatures.  He was at the birth of Christ.  It’s documented. This altar clearly has roots in my Christian heritage.  Make ones …


A Fun Way to Honor Your Art or Your Child’s Art

Posted On Dec 11 2014 by

A Fun Way to Honor Your Art or Your Child’s Art Finally. I have decided I need a tablet computer, one with a keyboard.  Need.  Right.  It’s a toy that might have some delightful uses that I can use to justify my purchase.  By the way, I still don’t own a cell phone. The ASUS Transformer I settled on comes in Gray or gray.    But that can be fixed with a laptop skin, a protective material that adheres to its surface making it pretty. My daughter Sasha introduced me to skins at Nuvango.com.  They ask artists to create images for …


Kindle Book Giveaway – Altar Making for Happiness

Posted On Dec 4 2014 by

Can Making Your Own Altars and Shrines Make You Happier This Holiday Season?  Like you maybe, I suffer during the holidays.  I did until I stumbled onto making altars.  One snowy Christmas at my parents home in northern Ohio, an inspiration grabbed me – create a mobile with origami cranes made from this beautiful red wrapping paper and found twigs… Hang it in the stairwell.  Make it Big. I did.  It took hours to create, happy hours spent in my right brain.  Recall, the right brain is the place to be if you wish to feel oneness, peace, and harmony.  …


An Easy Way to a Peaceful Restful Sleep

Posted On Nov 25 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 403) Stop, where are you running to, Heaven is within you if you are looking for God elsewhere, you miss him entirely. – Angelus Silesius, 1624 – 1677 You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. An Easy Way to a Peaceful Restful Sleep She was more than ready for sleep even before she listened to …


Immersing in Oneness

Posted On Oct 28 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 310) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. – Stephen Leacock You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Immersing in Oneness I want to experience oneness all the time. I have many practices that help train me to do this which I have shared …


Finding Your Own North Star – a Review

Posted On Oct 7 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 310) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. – Stephen Leacock You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Finding Your Own North Star – a Review Some books excite me. They resonate so deeply with me that I yearn to have each of my …


He Did Not Get It

Posted On Sep 29 2014 by

He Did Not Get It “The ‘sketches’ were not that great and not at all inspiring,” David Terry said in his Amazon review of my book – Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life. He didn’t get it. The sketches indeed are not great art – that’s the point.  This spiritual practice can be done by anyone, not just trained artists. When you sketch, even sketching with little skill, you can deeply enjoy the Sacred Present Moment. And the Present Moment can fill your heart with peace and joy.  Look to your …


Crazy No More –Three Practices That Always Work

Posted On Sep 25 2014 by

Three Practices That Always Work First, you suffer, I suffer all God’s children suffer – that is, we get caught in our mental habits of being right or wrong, making other people bad or better than us depending on the flavor of you craziness. Me? I’m just not good enough. Buddhism has a set of four vows, one of them says: The number of delusions are infinite. I vow to penetrate them all. When I feel crazy or delusions hit, these three practices always work to restore me to peace and wholeness. 1. Riding a bike – as long as …


The Power of Memoir

Posted On Sep 11 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 185) Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. –Roger von Oech You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. The Power of Memoir Children want to know their parents stories. They need those stories. I know there were stories my parents, aunts and uncles could have told me that I …


Powerfully Potent Way to Heaven

Posted On Aug 20 2014 by

  Powerfully Potent Way to Heaven You can get my latest book NOW: Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life. You’ll like the plethora of pictures and the premise of the book will inspire you.  Some wonderful friends contributed examples for you as well as my own sketches.  If we can do it, you can too. : ) How Does Sketching and Writing Poetry Help You? You could live a life you love.  You could learn to fall in love with your life. . Ultimately, you could fall in love with everything. …


Joyous Creativity

Posted On Jul 4 2014 by

Joyous Creativity It’s a delight to watch Linsey Pollak create a playing clarinet from a lovely orange carrot.  He’s infectious.  May you catch this joy. His shirt and hat make him a great role model for happiness. Walk in beauty, William


#1 Happiness Book Giveaway

Posted On Jun 29 2014 by

Do you want the #1 ranked Happiness book.  Or the #3 Stress Management book? Good news – it’s the same book. I’m giving away my book:  Finding Your Own Best Ideas- A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works Book 1) I’m doing this because I want to.  And to promote Book II: Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works) A favor, please pass this on.  They’re both good books filled with valuable coaching ideas. …


Book Giveaway

Posted On Jun 28 2014 by

Book Giveaway I’m giving away my book:  Finding Your Own Best Ideas- A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works Book 1) I’m doing this because I want to.  And to promote Book II: Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works) A favor, please pass this on.  They’re both good books filled with valuable coaching ideas. Oh, and please write a sterling review. : ) Walk in beauty, William P.S. Offer ends midnight PDT July …


Announcing a New Book and a Giveaway

Posted On Jun 26 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 23)    wake up neo… the matrix has you. You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Announcing a New Book and a Giveaway I have published Book II of the Do More of What Works Series.  Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life Naturally, …


Strong Women and the Sacred Ordinary

Posted On Jun 18 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 292) We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Teilhard de Chardin You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.    Strong Women and the Sacred Ordinary Rarely, do I want to watch a film again right after I have seen it.  I have two for …


Enough Money

Posted On Jun 10 2014 by

Enough Money Money doesn’t bring happiness except when it does. I have some friends and clients who do wonderful work, but are unemployed.  Or underemployed.  They’re not earning enough.  The lack of money may drive them to get jobs.  This would cause them to leave their holy calling.  The work they were born to do. I have been able to support my family doing unconventional work for four decades, but we burned through our savings when I started a new practice in Seattle.  Woof. By the way, I approve of the idea of ‘day jobs’ as long as it doesn’t …


A Trick to Free Your Spirit

Posted On Mar 27 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 309) If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha Our mind is like a clear glass of water.  If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water.  But originally the water is clear.  No thinking, no mind.  No mind, no problem. – Seung Sahn You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you …


Serene Giveaway

Posted On Feb 14 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington    You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Serene Giveaway Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST –  You can get Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly …


This Study Shocked Me

Posted On Feb 12 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 374) The way cannot be taught in detail, but it can be grasped intuitively. – Miyamoto Mushashi You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.   Can Standing Like Wonder Woman Trigger Your Power Hormones? Here’s the question: Can your posture encourage the release of your …


More of What Works

Posted On Jan 30 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 339) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power. Begin now. — Johann Wolfgang Goethe You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with …


Why I Recommend Poetry

Posted On Jan 23 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 132)    The Zen student asks the teacher, who am I?”  The teacher responds with, “Who’s asking.” The teacher responds with, “Who’s asking.” You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.  …


The Advantages of a Morning Constitutional

Posted On Jan 9 2014 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels chose and especially appropriate oracle quote for you today: 192) Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. – Voltaire You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.  Morning Constitutional I’ve just returned from my …


Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway

Posted On Dec 19 2013 by

Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway  A dear friend heads into heart surgery this morning, another friend’s adult daughter died leaving behind a husband and two kids, I successfully passed through my hip surgery and recovery unfolds well.  So what?  Prayer will transform all three situations.  And building an altar or a shrine puts muscle, creativity, and heart into your prayer as you put your mind and hands to work.  Saturday, December 21st is winter solstice when we welcome the return of the sun.  This celestial event lends itself to building a shrine for the coming light and the coming year.  …


Best Gifts

Posted On Dec 11 2013 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 212)  We painted like children in the face of nature. – Henri Matisse You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles.    The Best Gifts Mostly, I’m a Grinch about Christmas. …


Book Giveaway Is Live

Posted On Nov 22 2013 by

Book Giveaway Is Live If  You’re Reading This After 12:01 AM PST November 23, 2013 then you can get Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost… NOW.  Go for it => Altar Making You can read more about why you want to get the book HERE. Heads Up: The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013. Tell your friends.  Remember to let people know that they don’t need a Kindle to read Kindles, Amazon has software so you can read Kindles on anything. Walk in beauty, William P.S. You can …


Kindle Book Giveaway

Posted On Nov 21 2013 by

Can Making Your Own Altars and Shrines Make You Happier This Holiday Season?  Can creating them bring more sacredness into your life? You can find out for yourself. You can download Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost starting – November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST.  The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013. Go for it => Altar Making “Making an altar may not make all your wishes come true, but it can make you really happy and bring more peace into your holiday season,” …


Lighthearted & Free

Posted On Nov 12 2013 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:  338) If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you Then that which is within you Will destroy you.          – Gnostic Gospel You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little …


Why Make an Altar?

Posted On Oct 31 2013 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 260) The fastest way to become rich as to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to the become poor is to socialize with the rich. — Nassim Taleb You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.  Get the Wizard’s Handbook …


Relax, You’re Going to Die

Posted On Oct 9 2013 by

Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:  217) From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone. — Alice Walker Nov. 5, 2008 in a letter to Barak Obama. You can use my Potent …


Last Day Book Giveaway

Posted On Oct 8 2013 by

Last Day for Book Giveaway   This is the last day I will be giving away my Kindle book – Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey .  Ends at midnight PDT Wednesday, Oct. 9th, 2013. I love the book and its 39 paintings and drawings.  I reveal my heart and soul in each image. ·         If you like art, you might enjoy Drawing the Sacred.  ·         If you want to learn to draw, this book might inspire you. ·         If you want motivation to make pilgrimages to Sacred places, this will inspire you. ·         …


Kindle Invites You to Heaven

Posted On Oct 7 2013 by

  Here’s the press release for my book: Seattle, WA, USA.  “An invitation to step across a threshold into an unknown place that turned out to be heaven,” Dr. Alexandra Gayek, an early reviewer said.  William Wittmann’s newest Kindle book, Drawing the Sacred will be available for free download until 11:59 PM PST Oct. 9, 2013. “What does that mean?” I asked Wittmann. “This book shows people how to connect to the Sacred by using tricks that artist’s use.  And if you practice these ideas for a bit, you move into the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus and the Buddha …