Rather than play, I practice. There’s so much to learn and nothing to lose. Obviously, I lack the competitive edge, always have. For me, “the only way to win is to refuse to play" (Seth Godin). It is only in the last 10 years that I developed a lifelong practice, and that did not happen... Continue Reading →
The View From Afar
It’s a soggy, sunny Sunday morning in North Florida with 74% humidity, the warmth of an oven without the offer of fresh bread. The yellow-black of the Tiger Swallowtail and burnt orange of the Gulf Fritillary butterflies weave in and out of vine-laden live oak and longleaf pine. Within the green vine-blankets are oval glimpses... Continue Reading →
No Experience Wasted
This week’s #LongerView, “The Peace in Thinking Bigger,” is a riverside chat, the kind we have with ourselves when we have been off on a tangent, a real meander, only to find ourselves exactly where we started. Never for naught. No experience is wasted, not a one. It’s how we learn to think bigger. Oh,... Continue Reading →
So Easy to Overlook
Today’s #LongerView is a peaceful one in A Place Not Far Away at All. I remind myself that sometimes what I seek I already have and always had. As always, I provide the swinging bench. Aim for Even posts offer equanimity a dose at a time. No day or dose is ever the same, even... Continue Reading →
A Wendell Berry Kind of Day
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry, Standing by Words When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at... Continue Reading →
When Courtesy Is Left Behind
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I found this quotation in my morning email. After yesterday’s post regarding my experience at the neurosurgeon’s office, I appreciate the coincidence or is it synchronicity? And here’s a bit more, I think. The working title of one... Continue Reading →
Every Day is a Protest
To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps. (Thich Nhat Hanh) I miss writing a weekly letter to my mother for many reasons. When I wrote to her, I walked peacefully. How much or how little I wrote were the colors of her world. I like to think we... Continue Reading →
The Seat With Our Name on It
We are homeless until we sit down in the “seat of self,” the center of consciousness within us all (Michael Singer). Each one of us has such a seat with our name on it. So often, I seek in the world what is only available within me. Oh, the miles I have traveled; the stories... Continue Reading →