Who and what are we? We are definitely not just our body or our mind or our soul or experiences, fears, beliefs, and not even our scars. But we definitely are all those things. We are dynamic and growing and dying all the time, even as you read this. But the scars, the scars can […]
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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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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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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
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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