We all have Sacred Vows that we have made with God, with others, or with ourselves. Some are current, and some were made at a very early age. Sometimes these vows are organic, and somehow they get formalized over time, and sometimes these Vows are declarations that become sinew and evolve into an essential part…
Lessons in life are hard-fought. There is no easy road to redemption, and/or evolution. It’s a battle against a new order of things, it’s a battle against the fear of what you might lose, it’s a battle against what has held you fast, and it’s always a battle with uncertainty, the unknown. One knows what they…
Even though we are saying goodbye to 2020, there are those who are holding on to 2020 with a death grip. Maybe it’s because you won’t be able to ride on Airforce 1, or maybe because your need for attention is gasping for every last breath. Or maybe it’s because you don’t have the option of…
It has been a hell of a year. That is not to say that we are not still on “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride”, it is just to mark the last 12 months.What we expected in December of last year and what occurred in the ensuing months were very freaking different. Adaptation, assimilation, innovation, and contemplation have been qualities…
“Oh the Places You’ll Go” – Dr. Seuss As we turn the corner on 2020 and all that was and has been, we look at“Oh the Places You Went”. We have gone to despair, to hope, to resistance, to wreckage, to failure, to futility, to madness, and to love.We have also gone to the moments,…
It takes something to fight for something, and many times those acts are not public. They are mostly private battles that you have to win every day. We battle with the best part of ourselves, and certainly the lesser part. We are faced with choices all day long, choices like: to have character, to have…
A healthy body is a function of many things. There’s the obvious about what goes in it, what the proper fuel is that keeps the body going strong, but there are so many other factors. There’s stress and anxiety and an inability to express and release emotional toxins that are captured in the liver and…
“Love is an interruption in where you thought you’d be going and what you thought you’d be doing.” “Anytime that you try to solve a problem, you are perpetuating the problem. Excavating the issues and alchemizing them is a creative act and a contribution.” “You’ve got to commit to what you’ve got, not what you…
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets inAnd stops my mind from wandering Where it will go I’m filling the cracks that ran through the door And kept my mind from wandering Where it will go And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong I’m right Where I belong I’m right Where I belong…
Let me sit for a while and think and feel and wonder. Not the wonder of discontent but the wonder of life. I don’t know if it is age, or the times, or all the loss, but sometimes I feel like my heart is going to explode. It’s curious because there’s the pain of course,…