I am trying today, and if possible everyday for the rest of my life, to be more present. I am trying to notice myself, notice my feelings and thoughts. I am trying to be more aware and less reactive. I am trying to observe myself as if from a third person perspective. I am trying […]
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I am currently dealing with a chronic back problem that is flaring up as a significant acute roadblock to mobility. Just trying to pick up a bag of groceries this morning has derailed my day and maybe my week. I have friends who have lost limbs and others that are essentially having to learn to
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Who and what are we? We are definitely not just our body or our mind or our soul or experiences, fears, beliefs, and not even our scars. But we definitely are all those things. We are dynamic and growing and dying all the time, even as you read this. But the scars, the scars can
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It is a cold otherwise impersonal dark autumn morning in Seattle as I sit here held in Love by 1971 David Bowie. Why did I not more fully explore the depth of your catalog until after you died; 26 studio albums, were you mortal? Life on Mars is currently holding me tight. Its beauty allows
I simply had to stop what I was working on. I needed to write. Sometimes it is so obvious that the universe is trying to teach me something. Teach me something that I desperately need to know or relearn. The path is built as we walk on it either with our eyes open or closed.
Acceptance is difficult magic Read More »
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It is as simple as that. Want to be happier? Seems like a rhetorical question, but maybe not (masochists aside). Just unplug. Stop consuming, stop obsessing, stop scrolling, delete the apps, leave your cell phone on the kitchen counter more often, just get back to being human. There is a world of shades between modernity
On a road that once hummed with the thoughts of men, we find ourselves in the dawn of a new epoch, where the hum has turned to a metallic whir, a cold, sterile rhythm that has replaced the heartbeats of humanity. Jack would have hated it, the relentless march of progress, not the romantic kind,
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I am penny-wise and pound foolish. I take nearly everything personally. I am simultaneously too hard on myself (not enough grace) and too lenient (not enough discipline to finish things and take risks). Oh yeah, I am so over-the-top risk averse. I judge people all the time. I don’t place enough value on my time.
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Blog, Dark Clouds, Inspiring, It will be okay
I had just finished a beautiful and exhausting hike yesterday a little before 1PM. I was driving out from the trailhead beginning the five mile treacherous pot-hole dodging trek back down a forest road. Imagine if we actually allocated a few bucks from each of us to maintain the roads to access these national treasures?
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Blog, Dark Clouds, It will be okay, Travel With Me
The only thing holding us back from bliss is us! Let go of anger and expectation and regret and worry and everything else. It is like the feeling after completing your last test at the end of the semester, or walking out of school on the final day….exhale. I am looking at you in the
