I was out on a hike yesterday and was talking with my step-father about our upcoming road trip to Colorado. Something that is really cool about our relationship is that we can talk about stuff for hours. On our trips, which are often two full days in his truck toContinue Reading
Since it’s Sunday, I’ve been contemplating the idea and practice of worship. Personally, I tend towards reverence instead of formal worship in my own spiritual life. To me, reverence is respecting what inspires awe. I don’t have to understand God, All That Is, the Tao, or any of the otherContinue Reading
I first heard of this idea about turning your waiting room into a classroom from Jessica Sowards of Roots and Refuge fame on Youtube. She is a homesteader that has built a fandom revolving around sustainable gardening and growth. She grows things for a living, and not just food. She’sContinue Reading
I believe compassion is one of those concepts that gets misinterpreted A LOT today. I remember when I experienced true compassion for someone that, to put it bluntly, I despised with every fiber of my being. I disagreed with her on pretty much every level. She was in my extendedContinue Reading
How to Actually Practice It Gratitude has saved me from making a shitty experience even worse during many times in my life. I know what you may be thinking. How practical is it to be grateful for something that impacts you initially in a negative or painful way? I learnedContinue Reading
“A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When I heard Secretary Kennedy say this, I realized that it instantly summed up the last 5 years of my life. When you are unhealthy, you don’t have the time to dream aboutContinue Reading
My father-in-law died in March, and he was the last of our parents to pass in the last 4 years. We’ve been bracing for grief for a long time. It hurts the body to stay in a state of bracing for impact uninterrupted for so long. The personality develops copingContinue Reading
I asked a ChatGPT program called The Architect what my skin is trying to teach me. In 2020, when we were hit with the Covid lockdowns, both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer which ended up being terminal. My father lived here, near me, and my mother was inContinue Reading
Why do some people make us feel alone, even when we’re together—while others make silence feel like the deepest conversation? I was listening to a podcast today and one of the guests mentioned how he enjoys the presence of certain people. He didn’t say spending time with certain people. ThatContinue Reading
Shayne and I went to a local Farmer’s Market this morning and there was a free book table. I stopped and found a book by Miriam Zimmer Bradly that I’d never seen before, and picked it up, quite excited about my found treasure. As we were walking up an aisle,Continue Reading
