You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you. —Isadora Duncan I live on the side of a mountain. Just beyond our backyard is a state forest—Norvin Green State Forest. (If you’d like to see a map, you can look here. We live on…
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Destroy 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 crippling depression was like crossing a river. There are two…
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A Beautiful Fight
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. —Charles Bukowski Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve been struggling. Today a sense of calm swept…
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Trust Your Struggle
“My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked, there is something burning in here.” —Andrea Gibson Sometimes we want to say something, but words fail us. Maybe we want to describe the goosebumps that crawl all over…
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It is what you think about.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. —Dale Carnegie If only I had that thing… If only I could be more like…
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Let Go of Your Ego
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Do you know the difference between your true self and your ego? Many people don’t. In fact, they don’t even realize that there is a difference between the two. Most people identify themselves…
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Waiting 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 clarity through peace of mind and heart. To quiet…
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If you cannot put your heart into it, take yourself out of it.
Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. I agree. Fact: Most people are insane. The cure for this insanity is awareness. (In fact, awareness is the cure for most things.) There is…
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You can change or stay the same.
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard… For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there…