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why.
Today is the last day of January 2021. Nice job. You did it. ✅ it’s done. Now what? I blog on Saturday mornings. I enjoy it. Yesterday morning I was fatigued. I often observe myself as if I am sitting in the stands watching my life unfold. Since returning to work in January, I have […]
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resistance.
A skill is a skill is a skill. True or False? Now what? Dribbling is a basketball skill. Dribbling alone is an activity and may be considered enjoyable, rhythmic, a personal choice or preference. Dribbling as part of something more; a team, a game, a challenge…the application of this skill is a whole different experience […]
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discomfort.
There is an unwritten privacy clause to those of you who engage in my content. The privacy clause is that it is your own private journey. No one needs to know anything about your curiosity to be more kind and gentle toward your own self. It’s interesting that this idea may be considered selfish. Keep the practice as a quiet…
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initiate.
In 1999, the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado disrupted my sense of ‘school’ reality to a level of obsession. I was in Illinois. I wrote an article for the school paper, Everyone Matters. I knew there was more to the story of Dylan and Eric. There had to be a way to prevent the end result.In August 2017, I sat…
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#2020blog
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. the tao of pooh Above is the dedication written for the digital book, Something More. Connecting […]
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gift.
It’s time to ‘wrap this up’ with a final 2020 blog: gift. Originally, I anticipated this final blog to be named: wish. The meaning behind wish. had to do with a wish I hold in my heart. Wishes are interesting. A true wish, an authentic wish, has to come from a place centered in wholeness. […]
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santa.
Something More. A mist. An essence. Magic. Belief. Possibility. It exists. The culmination of a calendar year. Remembering. Are you joyful? Do you want to be joyful? Enjoyment exists. It has to. If it didn’t exist you wouldn’t know what it felt like to be lacking it. What if joy was baseline. What if to […]
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inspired.
Tapping into an inspired state feels good. Being inspired feels SO GOOD. Inspired people inspire others. It’s often not a particular topic of interest that is inspiring, it’s the energy. The energetic vibration of living from an inspired state.
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more.
By the end of the school year following the Breckenridge summer, I declared my own devotion to learning and teaching all things mindfulness. Looking back at the last (almost) decade, it wasn’t the consumption of new knowledge and information ABOUT mindfulness. It was the practice. The practice of slowing down and noticing what it was […]
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humanize.
Curious people ask questions. A question is different from a statement. A question is different from an accusation. A question is different from a complaint. A question is not ammunition used in social play to dominate someone by shutting them up. A true question is asked in a curious way, curious about an answer.
