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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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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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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So, this is the first new city for me on this trip. I began this trip with eleven days in Rome, a city I have been to at least a dozen times in my life, even once on a business trip. I love Rome. I love how insignificant I feel there….how impermanent. The city is
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