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“Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” – Epictetus
“Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” – Epictetus
There’s a super worm equinox moon tonight. Besides being a crazy pick-up line, it’s marking the beginning of spring in stunning fashion as it rose. And the only way to have seen it was to be outside. Too many people hole themselves up in their houses or offices, never being one with nature. That’s not…
My dog Bodhi is reaching the end. His back legs, so powerful in driving him in sprints around the yard or on those mad dashes out the open door and down to the beach for a swim, are betraying him now. In the morning when it’s time for him to go out I need to…
“A man is worked upon by what he works on.” – Frederick Douglass I’m not a photographer by profession, but I fill Instagram with pictures. I’m not an author by profession, but this will be my 416th blog post. I’m not a horticulturist. but I’ve spent hundreds of hours painting vibrant portraits with amended soil…
Saturday I left the house mid-morning to catch our son’s college basketball game with a quick dinner afterwards, dropped the in-laws off and got home eight hours after I left. We casually spend time like this without a thought, for it’s the essence of life. Time spent on a worthwhile investment. At least to me….
My musical tastes are pretty eclectic and diverse. I run from classical to heavy metal, with long stops in alternative and classic rock. But beach music is what I come back to time and again. It’s a year-long soundtrack, whether I’m on a beach or thawing out inside after shoveling the driveway. Beach music isn’t…
“What’s a more soulful way to live? What’s a way that I can benefit from the dynamism and prosperity of American society without having to play by these rules that keep us in a holding pattern?” – Rolf Potts, from his Deviate podcast Leave it to Rolf Potts to ask the question. The question that drives…