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I’ve been gone for a while. I regularly travel the Great American Southwest, and this year has so far been no exception: 4,000 miles through California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
I spent time ...
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Experience slips away…
— Neil Peart, “Time Stand Still,” Hold Your Fire, Rush, 1987
The Professor (IYKYK) commanded my attent...
The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fear—and how to train it to imagine opportunity.
“You can ‘what-if’ yourself to death,” she said.
She was right, of course. I’m an INFP, a first-born, a...
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 ...
“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...
Journitation is a portmanteau I created to highlight the importance of combining journaling and meditation. I believe that the whole of this practice is greater than the sum of its parts.
Journaling
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A Framework for Making Good Decisions
I see it all the time. People work hard to achieve their dreams, but can’t seem to get out of their own way. I’m as guilty as anyone; it is a very human tendency...
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 ...
It happens every year. The end-of-the-year holidays, and most of the birthdays and anniversaries in our family happen in December and January. As soon as those are over and it’s time to get back to “r...
“Today is a good day to die.” You have heard the phrase in numerous contexts, usually attributed to Native American culture. While the exact origin of the phrase is uncertain, I prefer to see it in th...
Compassion: A Short Story
I do some part-time work as a professor and counselor at a local college, mainly to stay connected to the world of higher education that has been a part of my life for over 35...
I remember a time that I was perfectly content in my little house in my little home town. That was ages ago. I’ve been psychologically “running” for a long time now.
It happened when I stopped to get g...
The smell of the polish, the feel of the wood; after all these years it still brings me pleasure and no small amount of comfort to perform my ritual of preparation before I step on a stage or hit the ...
The older I get, the more I see the value of taking a longer view. When I was first learning to drive, my father told me to look farther down the road to keep me from weaving around. It was good advic...
