“If you can be annihilated at any moment, then it’s each moment that’s precious. And if you don’t experience each moment, if you don’t understand how precious each moment is, then you are missing out. ‘cause that‘s all you can be sure of getting is right now.” – Sebastian Junger, from The Tim Ferriss Podcast…
Seek that wisdomthat will untie your knotSeek that paththat demands your whole beingLeave that which is not, but appearsto beSeek that which is, but isnot apparent– Rumi This entire blog is a work in progress. The output is the measure of the man, but the process itself is the progress. To write daily is a…
“What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what…
“Whatever takes you to a place is less important than what you find when you get there.” – Rolf Potts Do you feel the pull of certain places? I do, and quite frequently. Local and faraway places call to me, even as I stay busy in the garden and with small projects in the home….
I regularly break the accepted rules of gardening. Rules like putting the tall plants in the back of the garden. But when something like a balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) or bee balm (Monarda) are shoved way to the back you lose something intimate that you gain when they’re right in your face. So my apologies…
“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.” – Tim Ferriss It’s easier than ever to master distraction. There are so many ways to push aside the importance of a specific task for the urgent du jour that pops up as a notification or to…
“From here to VenezuelaThere’s nothing more to seeThan a hundred thousand islandsFlung like jewels upon the seaFor you and me”– Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Lee Shore I heard about a former coworker, a guy with Israeli good looks and intense blue eyes that no doubt closed many negotiations of the heart, who succumbed…
“I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. I did my best to kill her. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted in self-defense. Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out…
There’s a battle happening in the background within each of us. A battle of habits if you will, each with a stake in your game, each working to override the other and dominate the conversation. And the stakes are high. We all have bad habits. Habits of consumption that lead us astray. Snacking too much….
What do you do with the day after a holiday? You clean up, maybe you feel the need to clean yourself up a bit, and then you move on. It’s a reset, if you will, with the lingering glow of celebration slowly fading into memory. Americans are waking up to the day after Independence Day….