“The Desert leaves us disoriented, desperate for direction, grasping for meaning longing for solid ground. For endless miles we are confronted with a lack of clarity and existential dread. We are hungry, thirsty pleading with life to get back to normal-to become animated by the simple pleasantries of day-to-day life. The desert offers no such … Continue reading the desert
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The Will 4/10/24
It was a five-month process that culminated today. I called the event “the signing ceremony.” In 2008, when I first drafted my will, I was 61, feeling healthy, pain free, busy building my business and riding my horse. I was still clutching my Boomer Attitude of invincibility and was pretty flippant about all the end-of-life … Continue reading The Will 4/10/24
Connection – a Mystery
I have wanted to write this story for a while now, yet each time I try, I bump into the fact that I am attempting to explain a Mystery. I cannot find words. I see evidence everywhere that we are all connected; we are all part of an unfathomable web of life and that we … Continue reading Connection – a Mystery
A Portable Paradise
A poem by Roger Robinson And if I speak of Paradise then I am speaking of my grandmother who told me to carry it always on my person concealed, so no one else would know it but me that way, they can’t steal it, she’d say. And if life puts you under pressure trace its … Continue reading A Portable Paradise
Throughline:
a common or consistent element or theme shared by parts of a whole After my story called “Paradigm,” an old friend helped me unwind the threads of the beliefs I had adopted as ‘truth’. The most affirming part of our conversation was her admitting to her own Inner Critic and how she copes with that … Continue reading Throughline:
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