“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future?…
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
Now there’s a beautiful river in the valley aheadThere ‘neath the oak’s bough soon we will be wedShould we lose each other in the shadow of the evening treesI’ll wait for youAnd should I fall behindWait for me— Bruce Springsteen, If I Should Fall Behind “The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter.” — J. K….
“Drink without getting drunkLove without suffering jealousyEat without overindulgingNever argueAnd once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave”― Dan Buettner, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way This world may just be a complicated mess. This world may be a miracle of experience and wonder. We skate between the two hoping to hold our optimal…
To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go.— Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods This is the time of year when the leaves release from the trees and…
Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondanceWith the stars up above in your eyesA fantabulous night to make romance‘Neath the cover of October skiesAnd all the leaves on the trees are fallingTo the sound of the breezes that blowYou know I’m tryin’ to please to the callingOf your heartstrings that play soft and lowYou…
“Recall a simple and ancient truth: the subject of knowledge cannot exist independently from the object of knowledge. To see is to see something. To hear is to hear something. To be angry is to be angry over something. Hope is hope for something. Thinking is thinking about something. When the object of knowledge (the…
“Continue to progress, do not stagnate. Consider a spinning top. It moves around a stable center. It spins and spins until it finally falls over, exhausted” — Awa Kenzo, Zen Bow, Zen Arrow In this blog I refer a lot to Stephen Covey’s concept of pushing the flywheel, and having momentum in our lives through…
The water is wide, I can’t cross o’erAnd neither do I have wings to flyGive me a boat, carry twoAnd both shall rowMy love and I— Pete Seeger, The Water is Wide There’s a marriage occurring in the family this weekend, and it got me thinking about my own. I’m approaching three decades together, which…
So before we endAnd then beginWe’ll drink a toast to how it’s beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI’ve loved these days— Billy Joel, I’ve Loved These Days When we love the days we’re passing through, it becomes easy to believe that…