I participated in an hour long meditation journey this morning. It was a great chance to relax and reflect. Something that came to me was this poem that I've loved for years. I'm surprised I haven't written about it before because it's always in the back of my mind. Let me not to the marriage…
It’s just like Hamlet said: To thine own self be true. Uhh, Hamlet didn’t say that. I think I remember Hamlet accurately. Ha, well I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn’t say that. That Polonius guy did.– Clueless We talk a lot about being our true selves but what is your true self? For…
I haven't been able to blog much this year. With everything going on around us over the past year, I just couldn't do it. I'd think about it. I'd even plan on doing it but I just felt frozen. I needed to hide away, keep to myself and process the realities of a global pandemic.…
As we all move into lockdown mode and practice social distancing, I've seen a number of friends and acquaintances post about plans to move fitness, dance or other classes online. There are lots of solutions for this kind of setup but I'm going to write what I know and outline some easy ways to do…
I’m listening to a song that I listened to a million years ago. A song I felt so deeply. Its rhythms were the beat of my heart. Or so I thought. It touches some distant memory but it feels like nothing. A touch of nothing like a touch from me. It was nothing. It’s gone. It never…
Last year around this time, I created a playlist I called April Fool. It was building off the feelings I had in the midst of making foolish decisions, knowing it and offering myself up to the abyss of reckless decisions. I chose songs based on the feel of them, wanting them to enhance the sensation…
I have had a long time love for letter writing. I've been lucky enough to have written and received many letters despite the fact that many people reply to my interest in letter writing by informing me that the art of letter writing is dead. Letter writing is not dead, merely endangered. It reminds of this…
I've been thinking recently about the middle ground. It's so easy to focus on opposing options. Right or left, yin or yang. But, perhaps, the real magic in life is the infinite space between those two. I guide myself through life using a series of principles, quotes, ideas or goals but I often think of…
Some things just stick with you and I was thinking about one of those things today. In a classical studies course I took years ago, I was introduced to the idea of humanity's quest for immortality. According to my memory of the course, the ancient Greeks believed that this could be achieved in one of…
I love making things. But I’m not a perfectionist and if things don’t turn out 100% how I’d hoped, I usually just accept the results and happily use my new lovely creation (of course sometimes things turn out too poorly for even that 😜). I eat the runny pie and not-so-great waffles. I ate tons…
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