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We have all heard the advice: “Live in the present.” “Now is the only time you have.” I myself regularly extol the virtues of mindful living in the present.
This week, I want to make a case for how to ...
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An Existential Excavation
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We tend to live as though we are immortal.
We devote our time and energy to meaningless pursuits: a fancier car, a bigger house, more stuff. Hours spent scrolling and...
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Every year, for more than 40 years now.
It’s the most sacred day of my year—this day of perfect balance, when life begins anew in the Northern Hemisphere.
I’m up bef...
You all do it all the time, whether or not you are aware of it.
There is a constant—usually silent—voice in your head that notices, interprets, judges, decides, remembers, projects. This phenomenon is ...
The seasons change quickly where I live. I’ve been aware of this for some time, but this year, I tried to catch it. To mark the exact day that it happens. I have a thesis: If we pay more attention to ...
We have realized the dream for three generations, now.
It was first made possible by the war, when his maternal grandfather trained in the then-ubiquitous Stearman bi-plane and later flew both the B-17...
NOTE: This article is longer than my usual Mindset Monday posts, but there are a lot of new people coming to the Hardcore Happiness community, and I just (August, 2025, as I write this) launched a Har...
“Tide‘s coming in,” she said.
Looks like it.
He was a bit startled to hear the voice.
As usual, when he looked up, no one was there.
He was still alone here, at the End of All Things.
It had taken a long...
Man is weak, and community is therefore indispensable.
- C.G. Jung
Our connections to people evolve, as do we.
When you graduated from your secondary (high school) education, what you thought were “forev...
Life is a series of unpredictable events. We bounce along between triumph and tragedy, spend too much time in survival mode, and never get a clear read on exactly why we are here. Sometimes our contin...
Loss comes in many forms - betrayal, abandonment, death - and from many sources: the end of a decades-long relationship, the death of parents, the loss of a career, the loss of a beloved geographic ar...
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin’ star again
There I go
Turn the page
- Bob Seeger, Turn The Page
It is a perfect spring night outside the venue, slight cool breeze and t...
The rock was here, mixed in with thousands of other rocks in the gravel driveway, when the house was built in ’59. It was here when my dad bought the house in 1968, a big house with a big pool in the ...
I am sitting here in my favorite coffee shop, thinking and writing as I do every morning, but today is different. I am experiencing a slightly altered state of consciousness; a quiet and serene detach...
Thanksgiving may be a uniquely American holiday, but the act of giving thanks has positive universal impact. I routinely see comments to the effect of, “Gratitude is like ‘thoughts and prayers:’ a nic...
