Hope I Die Before I Get Old
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you can go months without thinking about something and then, suddenly, circumstances present that idea to you repeatedly within a short time span, bringing it back...
View ArticleWhy It Pays To Have Balls Of Steel
In the hot air balloon high above Boulder This morning as the boys were getting ready for school, I finally got the chance to watch a video clip of Felix Baumgartner‘s record breaking skydive, which...
View ArticleIn The Grand Scheme Of Things
You can learn a lot from the tiniest of things. I turned 45 years old at exactly 2:12 a.m. today. After a restless night, I was awake quite early this morning as the sun began to rise. I found myself...
View ArticleAnd Then Life Happens
What will you leave behind? It has been a lachrymose few days for me. And while I’m rarely teary-eyed for long, sometimes my thinking brain gets trampled unexpectedly by my feeling heart and leaves me...
View ArticleEven The Great Ones Die
Closest I ever got to David Bowie. Section E, Row 36, Seat 2 “It never even occurred to me that David Bowie *could* die.” ~Michael Ian Black Yesterday was a weird day for me. Like many people my age, I...
View ArticleMaybe I’ll Come Back As A Tree
This week has been another lesson in the first Buddhist Noble Truth…life is suffering. Last Saturday we learned that we lost a friend unexpectedly and far too young. I was barely at acceptance of that...
View ArticleThe Next Step Is A Doozy
“You don’t need to take all of the steps. Only the next one.” For thirteen years, we’ve lived with a beautiful, anxious, determined, crazy, personality-plus border collie. We have adored her 95% of...
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