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.
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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
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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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
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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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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I have learned so much this week in Prague. I of course reflect fondly on the Prague of 1993. That was pure magic. That can never happen again. Then again I can never be 23 again anyway. Life is change. We need to ensure that it is good-change most of the time. If you try
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I am now home. I have now had the opportunity to sleep in my own bed and hug my wife. This trip was different for me. I have been privileged to be able to travel abroad for over a month at a stretch probably nine times or so. The fact that I can’t say if
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