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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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
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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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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To me, soup is a sacred, magical teacher. It is medicine. It is cost effective and healthy for body and spirit. It can be stretched if an extra person shows up for dinner. It is entirely possible that yesterday I made homemade chicken veggie soup and my daughter, back for the long weekend from college,
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I went to a small gathering recently and had a two hour discussion with four other people. It was my second time with this group, definitely two of the four were also at the first session I attended, one definitely not and one I am not sure of. The first time I went I left
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Trauma is inherited. You and I are still processing the pains of our forebearers. The pogroms and famines and wars and alcoholism and infidelity and sexual trauma and paper-cuts and bear attacks and everything else that everyone that came before you experienced is being processed in you and me as we type and read this.
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