What I’m Reading, Listening To, Watching, and Pondering

Books

Wired for Money by Michelle Masters (paperback and audiobook), peeling back more layers!

Despite the title, this book isn’t really about money. Money is the doorway, and what’s on the other side is us: our sense of worth, what we believe we deserve, and how safe we feel in our own skin.

I listened to Michelle’s conversation with Tami Simon, Michelle Masters: Rewiring Your Relationship with Money | Insights at the Edge. In it, she offered an alternative title for the book: Evolving the Brain to Catch Up with the Soul. That feels like a fitting title for what I’m getting out of it.

If money isn’t really about money, what might it be showing you about how you see yourself?

The Light Between Us by Laura Lynne Jackson

The Light Between Us by Laura Lynne Jackson is a profound reminder that love doesn't end… it continues to move toward us, like light finding its way through. The connections we form here are not temporary; they are woven into something far more enduring than we can see. This is a book that touched something deep in me, and left me sitting with a beautiful question: if the love and the bonds we share truly transcend this life, how then shall we live? The answer, I think, is with more intention, more tenderness, and a little less fear… reaching toward one another while we can, and trusting that the reaching never really stops.

Songs

Life on the Run by Brandi Carlile

Beauty in the Light by Hollow Coves

Let Me In by Dermot Kennedy

Pondering

Instructions Before Visiting Earth

In the event that you wake up
and find your soul separated from source
and manifest into material form, don’t panic.
Your condition is only temporary.

You have been selected for the opportunity
of human incarnation.

This 3D simulation is designed
to break up the monotony of eternity
by giving you a fully immersive experience
as a distinct ego identity.

Your body will serve
as your physical avatar
as you navigate a dense and dramatic reality.
There will be many distractions
causing you to forget your true nature and origin.
You will experience a range of emotions
from joy to loneliness to despair.

But remember – no matter
what trials and traumas you encounter,
your soul remains perfectly safe.

At times you may feel lost or afraid.
This is totally normal.
If you ever need guidance,
simply slow down your busy mind
and bring your awareness
to the quiet place
inside yourself.

On this planet, nothing is permanent.
People and things will come and go.
You will fall in love and form sentimental attachments
only to lose everything you hold dear.

So cling to nothing too tightly, even yourself,
and when it’s time to let go, let go with grace,
for nothing is owned, only borrowed.

As you walk among
the people on the planet,
try to be a good guest.
Tread lightly. Remember
that you are only visiting.
Don’t make a mess.
Listen more than you speak.
Give more than you take.

Don’t keep your soft heart
locked inside a glass cage,
protected from wear and tear.

You’ll never make it out alive
and time passes quickly.
So come back with some battle scars
and good stories to tell.