What is an intention when compared to a plan? —Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow What you intend to do is meaningless. What you actually do is everything. What requires a why for fuel in its darkest hours. What flounders without a plan. Habits carry plans to their completion. Plan your habits wisely, then follow…
If I could through myselfSet your spirit free, I’d lead your heart awaySee you break, break awayInto the lightAnd to the day— U2, Bad When you think about the trajectory of U2 prior to the ubiquitous madness of Joshua Tree, it was Bad that became the song the crowd took possession of. The band carries…
When my body won’t hold me anymoreAnd it finally lets me freeWhere will I go?Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?Or tropical rain?Or snow from the heavens?Will I join with the ocean blue?Or run into a savior true?And shake hands laughingAnd walk through the night, straight to the lightHolding the love I’ve…
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond them.” — Alan Watts “The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn’t make the…
My spouse recently deprioritized potato chips and Diet Coke from her life. For me, I could pass the rest of my days without ever consuming either of them, but for her these were a big part of her eating ritual. You make a sandwich for lunch, you need something crunchy and salty with it. And…
Many moons I have livedMy body’s weathered and wornAsk yourself how old you’d beIf you didn’t know the day you were bornTry to love on your wifeAnd stay close to your friendsToast each sundown with wineAnd don’t let the old man in— Written by Toby Keith/sung by Willie Nelson, Don’t Let the Old Man In…
Don’t look now, but as I post this on February 9th, we’re almost 11% through the year. How are those New Year’s Resolutions looking? Yeah, I know what you mean. Action plans without execution soon fall away like so many broken dreams. I don’t make resolutions, I chip away at habit formation. I’m particularly locked…
The forecast called for a blizzard, and officially it met the requirements to be called one in some places. Not so much where I call home. But a significant storm nonetheless. A storm you take seriously. A storm you hunker down in. A storm in which an adventurous spirit might look out at the hot…
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan! (Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!) – François Villon, Ballade des dames du temps jadis We’re all a bit tired, aren’t we? Tired of the pandemic, tired of political deviants and extremists, tired of people not caring about the environment or really anything but themselves. Tired of things…
“The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.’ Water is experience, immediate sensation, and wine is emotion, and it is with the intellect, as distinguished from imagination, that we enlarge the bounds of experience and separate it from all but itself, from illusion, from memory, and create among other things science and…