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“Just because we could, doesn’t mean we should.” My friend Maria (who happens to make the best vegan brownies ever) said that. She was relating it to the food chain, I’m relating it to many things. Over consumption, for example…
Most of my training has taught me to move people (and myself) TOWARDS an intended experience as opposed to away from an unwanted one. But Rick Warren spells out an effective technique in his TED talk. Before you do anything,…
Some things, even for a writer are difficult to put into words. I’ve lost some of the people closest to me in the last last years. Each one following the other with the coming of the fall season. I consider…
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. Many people believe negative emotion to be man’s worst enemy. So long as you condemn negative emotion (in yourself and others) you keep yourself apart from the power it contains. When you make negative…
Having walked on fire several times, I can testify to the very powerful act of facing our physical fears. Doing things that scare the living the daylights out of us can have create huge waves of shifts in all areas…
There mere act of defining who you are puts limits on who you can be. It can close you in some way. Instead define what you love, how you to feel, what you give, how you impact the world. Let…
The workout (redefinition according to SuzyQ): The only time in the span of a day where no one else matters. One is totally focused, totally empowered, totally in sync with one’s body, totally in “the zone”. There are no problems,…
I remember being 16 years old, with a freshly broken heart, writing a poem on a scrap piece of tracing paper and sketching pencil perched against the subway window in commute rush hour. I must have looked insane but I…
Lost By David Waggoner From Collected Poems 1956-1976 Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it…
We were coming back down the mountain from our lunchtime run on a warm sunny Monday. Two women were walking in front of us. “I wish I could wear short shorts like that”, I said to my running buddy as…
