Replace Fear with Curiosity
The only constant in life is change. When it comes to change, we have two choices: 1. Resistance 2. Acceptance Resistance to change is easier in the short-term. If you resist change, you can stay in...
View ArticleForget Resolutions, Let’s Talk About Weakness
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Weakness—we all have one (or three or fifty). Whether you’re Superman, me, or you—you know what it is. In fact, you’ve probably got a...
View ArticleFate vs. Freewill: How to Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose
What determines the course of our lives? Is it fate? Are our life paths predetermined by a higher power? Or is it freewill? Are we the masters of our own destinies in a random universe? At least once...
View ArticleThere will be hard days.
A Little Note to My Friends Who Need It, There might will be hard days in your life. And hard weeks. And hard months. And hard years. Hard times will rise up from the depths and try hard to drag you...
View ArticleWaiting for a Sign
I’ve been cleaning out my Google Docs today and I stumbled across a little note that I wrote to myself. I thought you might get something from it, too. Intentions. Saturday, July 31st, 2010: To gain...
View ArticleDestroy what destroys you.
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. —Bob Dylan Recently a gracious friend featured my words in his essay, How we see. In it, I said that my journey through...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: Last night, as I was sleeping | Antonio Machado
Last night, as I was sleeping | Antonio Machado Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt — marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water,...
View ArticleMountain Laurel and Thoughts on Faith
“If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there your hand will lead me.” –Psalm 139 One of the hardiest plants on our little mountain is mountain laurel. Mountain laurel is a bush with gnarly,...
View Articleheart spill // december
A few months ago, I returned to therapy after nearly ten years away. I’m seeing the therapist who changed my life all of those years ago. I’d been trying to handle “it all” on my own for a very long...
View ArticleEaster 2019
Once Easter arrives it always feels like spring is truly here. We celebrated the day with family, Easter egg hunts, and lots of love. On the night before Easter, after I tucked my babies into bed, I...
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