When I was younger, they used to call me The Test Dummy. While this kind of applied to my whole life, it specifically referred to my outdoor activities. For about 18 years, I went on yearly 10 to twelve day canoe outings. The first few were basically calm flat water … but then we got […]
There is something about wilderness activities that brings out the best in human nature. It is like getting outside the toxic fumes of civilization, breathing in all that nasty fresh air and actually communing with flora that was not made in China triggers some long forgotten gene that makes us actually be NICE to each other. People […]
Eye of the Tiger plays in the background. A virile masculine type is doing impressive feats of fitness. Sit-ups with a dresser on his chest; single finger handstand push ups; beating the stuffing out of concrete punching bags; sprinting up sky scraper stairwells. And then I wake up. Yep. The Super Secret Plan exercise program begins today. […]
We live in a world that has become defined by US and THEM. This concept has become ingrained in the very fabric of our societies. We have all been taught to focus on what makes us different, instead of what can bring us together. It is so much in human action these days that we do it […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I lost a friend the other day. I thought we were close. It got me thinking about what friendship really means. I was wondering if I was the problem, or maybe I just didn’t really understand what friendship means. I was so deep in thought about this question that I did not watch where I was going, […]
Back in the days before some crazy man invented electricity (it was invented by man right?), it was a lot easier to tell who your friends were. Way back when a friend was someone who shared the same stomping ground, wore the same skins, and did unmentionables in the same unmentionable spot. Anyone else wandering in was persona non-grata […]
Le pleine lune … It doesn’t matter where in the world we are, we can all look up and see the same moon. Humanity is teetering on the edge of a cliff. The solid ground beside us is a world of beauty; a world ripe with possibility. There ARE a few who chose to wander […]
A good friend of mine who has been the spark of many of my recent self-realization posts just offered me a challenge. Well she frequently challenges me to be a better me, but this time it was a specific challenge. Basically she suggested that I write a Eulogy for myself written from another person’s perspective. How would I want […]
As I mentioned in my previous post, my brain has taken a vacation. I thought this would be a good opportunity to write something straight from the soul. After all the brain is not there to interfere. But when I sat down to write it I found that my brain, maybe a bit concerned I […]
A couple of years ago, I had a jaded and very misinformed view of blogging. I equated bloggers with critics and used car salesmen. I thought of them as self-important people who had more to say than most actually wanted to hear. Of course since this described me well I was wondering why it took me […]
