I have strong impulses for things in my life. Some of these impulses cause me great stress. What I call an impulse, others might refer to as a “sturb” (as in a disturbance in the emotional body) or a reaction. When they are present for me, I usually find my self in a placeContinueContinue reading “Sitting with fire”
Category Archives: Living
Do we stumble when we look up?
I am on this kick about what it means to thrive in the world today. It’s been in my conversations (many others apparently have this question as well), my readings, my audio books…even my walks are consumed by this topic as I navigate the trails near my home. I feel like myself and so manyContinueContinue reading “Do we stumble when we look up?”
The unsustainable
“Well the word that comes to my mind is…thrive” my friend throws out during one of our weekly check-ins. We had been talking about how we and those we knew were always in this place of “just getting by” in our respective lives. Then he hits the nail on the head. He goes for itContinueContinue reading “The unsustainable”
How drugged are we?
I am on my second day of no caffeine. Let’s just say, I’m not exactly a spark plug in the morning. I started this process to help my gut heal; a short-term step to improve my health. But this experiment has me looking deeper into why I like coffee and the impact it has onContinueContinue reading “How drugged are we?”
How does your father see you?
My father still calls me Will or Billy, names I stopped being years ago. Our conversations always drift back to a time when I was still a boy, a child; his son. You see, it is as if my father took a mental picture – a snapshot if you will – of me as aContinueContinue reading “How does your father see you?”
Fear and loathing in the USA
I was recently pointed to an article in the New Yorker called “Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich”. The article talks about how Silicon Valley executives and their colleagues on Wall Street have been quietly preparing for an array of potential apocalyptic events. So when the SHTF, they’re bailing out! There are over 7ContinueContinue reading “Fear and loathing in the USA”
A manual for living
The decision to take action comes with risk. Some times we come out on top and other times we don’t. Since there is no “manual for living”, everything we do is a grand experiment. The question is this – can we accept the outcomes as they are? This is where our ability to reflect andContinueContinue reading “A manual for living”
A license to kill
We seldom think of how our action, ego driven, can cause a reaction. Our ego rages away, meanwhile, somewhere else, there is a reaction. Violence happens. A life is lost or forever changed. We could never imagine taking responsibility for the damaged caused by that raging ego. We don’t understand the concept of cause andContinueContinue reading “A license to kill”
What does the “quality of character” mean to you?
We turn our heads when we see things that are uncomfortable to us – someone berating a child, someone committing a violent act against another person or property – we simply look the other way. On a national level, we seem to unflinchingly ignore the serious characters flaws in our political candidates…whom we elect anyways.ContinueContinue reading “What does the “quality of character” mean to you?”
Taking Action – in love and relating
I would like to share my relationship story. My partner (we’ll call her M) and I met at a retreat and quickly became attached at the hip. We dated for three months, then I moved in. A therapist once commented that we got our relationship equation backwards – ” you two had started relating beforeContinueContinue reading “Taking Action – in love and relating”
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