I am working on one of my new life principle regarding work. The principle being – worthwhile work. This is my process that I wanted to share with you; the reader. I have worked all of my adult life. I’ve worked in many different industries and worn many different hats. There were times that IContinueContinue reading “The Journey: Work – What does Worthwhile Mean?”
Category Archives: Life Lessons
Three Principles I Live By
Part of my process to re-discover my “original instructions”, was to create a list of life “principles” that help me navigate my world. Here are my current top three principles: I know where I’m going. I am responsible for getting my needs met. I take action, everyday in my life. The first gives meContinueContinue reading “Three Principles I Live By”
Original Instruction
Do you know your original instructions? What are the ways and values you are meant to live your life by? The first peoples of the America’s believed (and practiced) that man was given a set of “original instructions” on how to live on earth, in-sync with all that made up the planet; rocks, trees, rivers,ContinueContinue reading “Original Instruction”
Meditations on fly fishing
All I can feel is the current rushing past my waders as I mend my fly line. Nothing else is present, but absolute presence. I breathe deeply in the cool fall air. I mend the line, then prepare to cast again. This is what I hear: – (silence)- Nothing but the wind, rustlingContinueContinue reading “Meditations on fly fishing”
Black Moon
Last night, September 30th, was a Black Moon, the second new moon in the month (a rare lunar cycle). The belief is that new moons offer new beginnings; a black moon is turbo charged. Manifest what you want now, as it is an optimal time for things to shift. What are ways we areContinueContinue reading “Black Moon”
What is Enough
In our pursuit for the perfect California location, one question keeps coming up for me – What is enough when it comes to a house? Besides the “where”, there is the “what” as in what do we need when it comes to a floor plan. Two bedrooms, three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 2 baths? 1,000 sq.ContinueContinue reading “What is Enough”
To Rent or To Return
The cost of renting a home in southern California is, well shocking. How do most people out here do it? You have the posh, three blocks from the beach, types of homes that fetch $6K to $8K per month. You have small California style bungalows fetching $4K to $6K. And the price doesn’t drop thatContinueContinue reading “To Rent or To Return”
Collapse
I find myself in a place of collapse as I write this blog. I feel a bit depressed, while at the same time, stirred up as I’m looking to relocate to southern California. I’m uncomfortable inside of me; not feeling my power. I experience “collapsing” as a human quality and I believe most of usContinueContinue reading “Collapse”
Father
“When a father, absent by day, returns home at six, his children only receive his temperament, not his teaching”…Robert Bly My father is 83 years old this October. He is about to move from the house he’s lived in the past twelve years. His mind is leaving him but his body is strong. I wantedContinueContinue reading “Father”
The Wisdom Path: the Search for the Storyteller.
(This is the first of a series of blogs related to a projected called the Wisdom Path Podcast. ) Storytellers are the individual responsible for keeping oral tradition and story alive. Through their words and wisdom, they carry the water of life forward. Giving us insights into the great mystery and ourselves. But where areContinueContinue reading “The Wisdom Path: the Search for the Storyteller.”
