I feel the need for motion. The past seven months I have been fully engaged with work behind the walls of the corporate castle, and now I feel the need to spend time roaming urban…
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if-this-then-that
I thought this would be a good story to share because I often here people making their big life goals – the goals they claim they really want – conditional. They have the ‘someday’ mentality….
career advice from the Tao
In times of reflection I sometimes turn to the Tao Te Ching (the book of The Way), written by Lao-Tzu, for guidance. Over these past several days my thinking has taken several synchronistic turns and…
do you think that’s air you’re breathing?
My wife thinks I’m crazy. My friends shake their heads in bewilderment. Even the cats look at me funny. Why? Because I get up in the morning between 4:00 – 4:30am each day apart from…
relaxing in the hills
Many months have pasted since my last trip to the hills. My work schedule hasn’t been that permissible this year. It’s kind of a hard sell to the wife to be away all week only…
four of a kind
It amazes me the tiny towns literary festivals tend to pop up in. I spent the afternoon at the Woodstock Literary Festival. Woodstock, of course, conjures up in my mind thoughts of the Woodstock of…
who would you be if time, money, and resources were not an issue?
Create some space right here right now that you can step into right now and be who you want to be and do what that person would be doing right now…let go of any mind…
what the internet knows about you
We all love the Internet. Find out what the Internet knows about you. And if you’re feeling a bit voyeuristic, try typing this URL in your friends, coworkers, or enemies computer: http://www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/
things that make you go hmmm
Marc and Angel of Hack Life fame, have created a new website called Makes Me Think. If you are looking for a change in perspective about life, it’s worth a visit. Most of the entries,…
unlocking creativity
As a writer, I have often come up against the brick wall of creativity. And no matter how hard I bang my head against it, sometimes I just can’t seem to get the words to…
you know more than you think you know
A: “Why do you answer questions with questions?” B: “Perhaps because you ask questions to which you know the answers.” A: “Well if I knew the answers, why would I bother to ask?” B: “Because…
new horizons
I’ve come to far on my journey to slip back into old ways and travel familiar paths. Time to set my eyes on new horizons and follow new paths. I am more of a wanderer…
another birthday on the road
Hey! Another birthday has sneaked up on me. And once again, I am on the road, which has seemed to be the pattern over the past six or seven birthdays, bar one or two. This…
mind movies?!???
I’ve been recently reading Judy Reese’s blog. I met Julie a couple of years back, first online and then face to face during a presentation I was giving on using Mandalas as a coaching tool. …
my life story in 100 words
Crashed into the world, a product of two teenagers playing house. Inner city, big city, watched a man get shot, nearly lost my eye. Dragged to the suburbs to make a better life. Life sucked….
return from spanish holiday
I’m back in the UK after a week of pure R&R in Spain. We literally did nothing except hang out by the pool, hang out by the beach, eat, read, play PSP, and sleep. OK,…
two live wires
It isn’t nice to be naked. Two live wires, hot, exposed, to dangerous to touch together under the night sky. Dark, unyielding, no moon to light the way toward salvation and bliss. A kiss delivered…
on keeping a journal
Thomas Moreton said that there was no point in keeping a journal if your life didn’t change significantly each day. Well trying to write this journal daily highlights the fact that on a day to…
bleed
you opened my vein this morning and my soul poured out; now I can’t stop the bleeding.