I’ve recently been thinking about the things that I don’t know anything about. As you can imagine, it can be difficult to imagine the things that you can’t even imagine. It can be scary to consider that the things that you know are an incredibly…
Read MoreIn 1982 Benjamin Hoff published a book called, “The Tao of Pooh” in which he explains why Winnie the Pooh is the hero of The Hundred Acre Woods and the greatest Taoist in the western literary canon. In ‘92, he followed it up with a…
Read MoreImagine that you’re the coach at a boy’s football camp. The ages range from fourth through eighth grade and there’s about 250 of these kids sitting on the front lawn of your field house waiting for the first day of camp to begin. Well, they’re not…
Read MoreWhen I was around 15 years old, I got arrested. I was brand new to that particular city where I lived for a couple years during high school, and while I wasn't exactly a "goody-two-shoes" growing up, it wasn't necessarily my nature to "make trouble" either. I was pretty nerdy in a lot of ways, and…
Read More…it may have stemmed from a series of Instagram posts that I had made while studying Yoga’s Yamas and Niyamas. I’d pick one per week and write a quick little caption on my successes and (mostly) failures in the self-practice. I’ve not really put much effort into developing a brand or…
Read MoreI was invited to write for The Community Journal about a year ago in 2019. When I gave an enthusiastic “YES” to the 1-year commitment, I had no way of knowing what it would mean in my life or how both I and the world would change along the way…
Read MoreI recently started working my way through Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. As part of this work, I spend about 30 minutes every morning writing my stream of conscious long hand across three pages. I’m…
Read MoreWe’re a solid month into global lockdown and quarantine. A lot of those ‘maybes’ we discussed last month might be starting to lean one way or the other for you at this point. I’m sure there are things we all miss and things that we have all realized…
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