I have been thinking about opportunity costs as a concept a lot over the last several years. I was amazed to find that I can’t find where I have written about it. It is a really powerful camouflaged threat to happiness that many don’t realize. I sure didn’t for most of my life. It may […]
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Sometimes I read or hear of an idea and it is like a lightning bolt. I can feel the neurons reorganizing; pruning the old rotting branches. I can see the new yellow-green buds forming and popping into life. Yesterday was one of those days. I have been thinking about boundaries all wrong. I suspect we
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I hiked a bit in college and really enjoyed it but somehow allowed most of the following twenty years to unfold largely hike-free. But once we moved to the Pacific Northwest when I was forty and I went on my first hike I was hooked. Hiking is sacred to me. It is the best of
Stay with me here. This may sound whiny or “get-off-my-lawn!” a bit, but I promise it isn’t. At least what is in my head right now, what I am going to try hard to get down on this computer isn’t that way. This is a bit of grieving loss, a really important activity to acknowledge
Didn’t I just write about letting go? Am I already back here again? I guess it must be pretty important to me now and likely so for many others in their middle to late mid-life. I remember recently learning of the term decumulation. That is the phase of life I’m entering into. It is a
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I have a monkey brain. It is unruly. It seldom slows down yet alone comes to a rest. I force it daily to do just that. For half my life I have practiced meditation. I have yet to be able to sit for more than a few minutes in a quiet empty presence. This is
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Great taste, no, less filling! Light is both a particle and a wave. We are just machines yet machines are evolving spirituality (and everything is Love). I understand more everyday and less at the same time! I want to live forever but also want to finally close my eyes. Nothing is important yet everything
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It really is that simple. Let go. I’m not going to look to see if I wrote about this before as I’m nearly positive that I have. But of course, my multi-year outpouring of free life lessons and pitfalls and learnings is about me and you and my daughter and the world in general. It
Sometimes the titles for my posts just leap forward and confidently shout “here I am, pick me!”, like an uninhibited toddler. Other times, like with this post, I write the entire post in my head, likely while I am sleeping or watching South Park, or some other important life activity and then struggle to
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Sometimes I just feel “blue-screen-of-death”. I feel as if I am so far off of what is normal for me, so far from my ideal self, from my daily routines that the only way to get back is to simply reboot. A few weeks back I decided to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. I’m just now coming back
