We all need to start saying please and thank you more often. Yes I used the word need. And like so many things, it’s not that we’re doing it for others, we’re really doing it for ourselves in a couple of different ways. Starting first with the word please, it is foremost an acknowledgement that […]
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Resistance, resignation, acceptance. Round and round I go, day after day. I attempted to write this piece a few weeks ago when the idea first came to me, but I was still way too raw in the resistance phase and barely getting to the resignation stage of some of the challenges I’m facing right now.
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It all depends upon which way the wind blows. Am I really this fragile? Is my physical and mental health really so dependent upon which way the wind blows? No, really, I’m asking. I had a week of summer hiking planned, beginning with a Monday drive up to our cabin. We have a cabin. Can’t
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Life is a river (through a steep walled canyon). It is change. It moves and flows and grows and feeds and destroys and creates. It is a river that shares selflessly. When it destroys it is not evil, when it creates it is not more kind. It never runs dry until it runs dry. When
I can’t explain anything. Let’s just start right there. I do remember many many laps of the sun ago being taught how to work with quantum mechanics to set up the equations necessary to determine the electron orbitals of the hydrogen atom. Just stay with me here. I know that I plugged through many pages
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I learned recently that emotions are simply a fleeting cascade of chemical processes in the body that last for about a minute and a half. Ninety seconds to ripple ebb and flow through us. Yet, I can promise you that I seem to get stuck on a feeling quite often for what seems like an
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It seems humanity is moving monotonically towards red-flavored candy. I realize this is kind of an obtuse thing to say, but by this I mean it seems that we’re content just doing or experiencing the most obvious, bombastic, one-size-fits-all things. And yes, I realize that red is not actually a flavor but I bet you
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The perfect flower makes us pause. We stop and very possibly for the first time that day are present. We simultaneously want to share it with the world and keep it all to ourselves. Is it any less beautiful if it doesn’t smell sweet? Does it cease to be perfect if there are ants crawling
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Words are powerful. The human brain is powerful. Unconscious, semi-conscious, and conscious—all of these states house hidden omnipotence. We have learned that it is much more productive to phrase things in the affirmative rather than the negative, especially for self-work. It is better to strive to increase connection and calm than to try to minimize
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My blog posts often fall along a couple different themes in case you haven’t noticed. Maybe because they just naturally do that, and maybe because being a human I am always trying to find patterns (even when there are none). And on a practical note, I assign categories to each post which allows the reader
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