Category: life
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Fire: The Element
Fire is in the house. Five Elements Project. In time to celebrate the solstice. Stay warm my friends.
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Road trip with Theo and Sprout
Time for holiday road trips. Take Theo and Sprout with you. You’ll be glad you did. Here are some links to explore audiobook availability. -First is a link to Youtube where you can listen to first chapter, for free of course -Audiobook on Amazon/Audible -On Barnes and Noble -On Chirp Audiobooks On Rakuten Kobo -On Scribd -On Storytel On GooglePlay
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The Seven Faints
“I started making a list of all the times I almost died” said one of the folks at a dinner outing the other day. Something had sparked a memory of a childhood accident that had nearly killed him and he had started to ponder all the near misses with death in his life and had…
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Letting Go, or My Flight from Societal Cannibalism
I was parking at the local coffee shop this morning and was faced again for the millionth time with my spatial dyslexia, the not quite utter inability of my brain to understand my place in space. I’m certainly not the only one who lives the struggles of left/right, up/down, near/far, east/west. The constant challenge with…
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To Grow or Not to Grow
Wherein I profess a terribly simplistic view of growth. Either you are growing or you are decaying. It’s a terrible dichotomy you can’t really escape. From a thermodynamics point of view, either energy is coming into the system or it is leaving. I suppose there can be the appearance of stasis but in humans I…
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Introversion: Your Struggle is Not My Struggle
“I know you struggle with your Introversion.” What? Someone said that to me the other day. And I thought hmm, and being a good Introvert I mulled it over for a while to pin down what I thought about that. I certainly had a lot of thoughts about that. The next logical step was to…
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Be Happy: Stop Feeding the Furnaces of Industry
More, more, more. Ah, the superimposing of contentment onto possessions. There’s a social disease for you. It’s like an insatiability. A vicious (and perhaps viscous) unfulfilling loop where we mindlessly feed our hard earned rewards back into the furnaces of industry. The best part of this is that we’ve been conditioned to believe that this…
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