Imagine this: we’re all in a darkened room, a large room like a sports arena. Everyone gets issued a box. This particular box is like the box you made for grade school valentine’s day cards. And then we’re set free into this large darkened room. We’re tasked with collecting friends.Continue Reading
We live in strange times where we are led to believe all sorts of things that have only half truths or alternatively, half lies. We are led to believe that people on the other side of the globe are engaged in awful activities that somehow conflict with our own wayContinue Reading
When I think about all the places I’ve ever lived, I cannot think of a single place that was better and for that matter, worse, than any others. Sure, there are merits to every place you go, there are difficulties in every place too. For instance, I lived in Tucson,Continue Reading
It was a great many years ago that I came to Longmont, Colorado. I had come because my wife’s family lives in Longmont. It seemed like this terrifically exotic place surrounded by the great Rocky Mountains on one side and farmland everywhere else. It was filled with that strange agricultural-industrialContinue Reading
It stretches across decades and time zones and continents. All the places where I have lived and for as long or as short as I have lived there are more than I can recount. As a child, my parents sent me back and forth over state lines from California toContinue Reading
Ultimately, listening to the silence of yourself and achieving self reliance, is not a very fashionable thing to do. This sort of behavior is not so easily transmitted via the ether to any give social media platform. This sort of behavior is not the sort of thing that marketers canContinue Reading
Karma Repair Kit:Items 1-4 by Richard Brautigan 1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4. I thinkContinue Reading
A warning for our time: do not let anyone or anything take your concentration away. We’ve all seen it. We’ve seen the people who drive their car and they have a cup of coffee in one hand and a phone in the other. They are not focused on any oneContinue Reading
I have been blessed. My entire life has been a blessing. I have never felt otherwise. Like many of us, I have gone through those rough times, those dark times, the trouble times. This is what it means to be alive and to be sure, I would fear for anyoneContinue Reading
In this complex world of making a living and obeying higher laws, I would be naive to suggest that we would all go one way or the other. It would be impossible, or next to impossible for all of us to throw away all confines to modern life and simplyContinue Reading