I was running the other day, which is meditative for me and gives me access to parts of my mind (and body) that I do not have access to when I do not run. I was well into mile three when this thought occurred to me: To feel good about…

Lately I have been accepting things, people, life as they are. It isn’t easy because I want to change them up, make them into something else entirely. But that hasn’t really worked all that well for me over the past fifty or so odd years. So I made a decision…

Wow, pretty big start to this blog today. The privilege of a lifetime! Seems like a huge undertaking. And it is… Carl Jung said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are…” And I felt that. In fact, I would take it one step further and…

Have you ever been at war? With yourself? With others? With Life? My experience is that I am a battle wager and a war loser. I am trying, quite desperately in fact, to think of one war I waged and won. I am pretty sure the score to date is …

I found a sweatshirt once that I wish I purchased. It was super soft, white and said “Dying alone with cats…” I knew it when I saw it that this was likely my fate. …

I crave lots of things. All the human things: food, safety, shelter, attention, affection, love, material things. …

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I spent my youth trying to figure out where I fit in the precarious space between my parents’ world and mine. I was ready to move out at 10. I am serious. …

I sat in our campground last weekend, listening and watching the stream do its thing. Listening to it whirl by, being ever mindful of the fact that the water was constantly changing, coming from a source, unseen, unknown, moving on below me, to places also unknown and unseen. For a…

There is so much life to be lived. And so very often, I have missed life and great opportunities because I refused to accept what is. …