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by Scott Kalechstein —  I am an entertainer. Performing for people is very fulfilling work, especially when I remember to get off the stage when the show is over. Becoming an entertainer was, in part, a strategy to overcompensate for the belief that simply being who I am was not enough. If I performed, my […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  I was strolling through San Francisco in a buoyant mood, lifted by the success of my just completed musical performance. Since my latest personal stretch was learning to be more liberal with myself financially, I decided to have dinner at a nice Japanese restaurant. I sat at the sushi bar, humming […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  Recently I presented a lecture and workshop on the healing power of music at a conference. It was a thriving New Age market, complete with Tarot readers and crystal salespeople offering their wares to shoppers looking for a little tweak in their reality. Guitar in hand, I would stroll around the […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  In 1996, I had a life-changing experience a week before my birthday. I was planning a big party — an evening of friends, celebration and music. An idea crossed my mind that made my heart skip a few beats. The idea was to invite my friends to gather in a circle, […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  We all know how harmful anger can be. Anger with the intent to hurt, project guilt and punish can easily cut and sever the delicate strands of connection in our relationships. But does that mean that all anger must be destructive? Can anger sometimes serve the purposes of healing, as well? […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  I  have a personal beauty secret to reveal, something that keeps both my skin and my heart youthful and baby soft. Here it is: I cry often. I cry when I’m sad, when I’m happy, when I’m touched by beauty. I cry when I let myself fully receive someone’s love. I […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  Recently, as I was telling a story at a Unity church service about my encounter with a woman 19 years ago, someone stood up and shouted, “That was me! I was that woman!” I was more than a little surprised, never having been interrupted like that in the middle of a […]

by Scott Kalechstein —  In the fall of 1996, I began feeling the urge to get my own place. At that point I had never lived alone before. I had gone from parents to college roommates to lovers to housemates and back to lovers, but never alone. Finding a place to live was always an […]

by Laura Orsini —  Here is a little challenge for you. The next time you are out somewhere in public — the mall, the grocery store, the post office — look around at the people. How many of them are smiling? How many of them look like they have cracked a smile even once this […]

by Scott Kalechstein Grace —  I have always been hooked on soulmates. By the time I saw the play “West Side Story” on Broadway, at age 8, I was already a hopeless romantic, captivated by how Tony and Maria fell in love at first sight. It was a love that transported them above and beyond […]

by Scott Kalechstein Grace —  I have harbored a fear and distrust of ordinary kinds of days for a very long time. I have created an epic life for myself, filled with dazzling highs and dramatic lows. With the work/play that I do in the world, peak experiences are quite commonplace. Often, though, a view […]