Listen For The Helpful Voices
Another popular artist, this time Chester Bennington of Linkin Park has been lost to death by suicide. Whenever there isContinue Reading
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The Struggle is Real, The Effort Worthwhile
It’s summertime up here in the Northern Hemisphere. Despite the countless joys that arrive with the season, for many ofContinue Reading
The Coffee Sucks, Don’t Let Them Tell You Otherwise
Two young women in the lineup at Starbucks behind me were talking about Tim Horton’s, a large Canadian coffee franchiseContinue Reading
Remember to Laugh, Otherwise it’s Ashes to Ashes
Despite my struggle to exercise ideological forbearance in his life, my son sees certain things critically in his own right. I am relieved; he’s already destined not to be a cultural dupe, but has his own mind as to why he’s unconvinced, a doubt that is more rooted in inquisitiveness than stridency. It makes me beam with pride.
Hey Angry Couch-guy, Genghis, Meet Faith
I’ve been struggling in my Mysore yoga practice for a long while. At first, I was saddled with self-inflicted injuriesContinue Reading
Good Things Come to Those Who Don’t Wait (For Death)
We’re all going to die. Not necessarily soon, but eventually. I hope that doesn’t come as a surprise. We haveContinue Reading
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So, ‘What do you do’, to Improve This Conversation?
It’s the time of year where obligation drags us to parties we could easily have blown off in April. It’sContinue Reading
Keep Your DICK in a Box Well Away From the Top Shelf
A toxic form of humanity is advancing rapidly through the white-collar ranks of large North American organizations. It drains theContinue Reading
Ambling Mind, Meet Full Moon
This morning I sat on my zafu cushion, pretending to cultivate bliss in quiet meditation. It is the ruse IContinue Reading
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Those Little Hands
In my twenties I was extremely disparaging of children. I viewed them as loud, selfish, obnoxious, energy-draining parasites. I’d cast aspersionsContinue Reading
Remember These Open Arms As You Grow Old, My Sons
I was sitting in a coffee shop the other morning when I was swept away by the blissful energy ofContinue Reading
174 and 1/2 Steps To Be Thin, Happy, and an All-Around Amazing Human Being in Under Two Minutes
Okay, the title is a little dishonest. In reality, I’m not going to give you any finite number of simpleContinue Reading
Trust Me, You Do Not Want to Know What is Going on In Here
Those four words. Like dogs to a high-pitched whistle and flies to mortally electrifying light, they render the same degreeContinue Reading
This is My Yoga
I am eternally grateful for the practice. Grateful to be here in one whole piece and not fragmented and feeling pulled in so many different directions by life. I am grateful to be capable of gratitude at all, instead of filled with cynicism. So, I’d like to share the insights I’ve had in my yoga practice with the hope if you’re struggling to find some peace of mind you will start down the path to changing that for yourself. Or, if you’re looking to be grateful for something when it seems like your habit is to be agitated or filled with dissatisfaction or ill-will, here’s something that may help with that. Maybe there’s some appeal in my experiences of yoga that encourage you to take actions to move beyond whatever it is within yourself that stands in the way of your joy and equanimity.
Treading in the Deep
Originally written November 2012 The separation was almost a year ago, long enough to feel acceptance of where things haveContinue Reading
