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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