


Awareness Requires Sleep
It’s 10:30pm on Sunday night, and I’m sitting in my office with my two sons. We’re each kind of doing our own thing, but we’re doing it while carrying on a conversation…relating…BEing together. We just finished watching “I Am...
Life Against the Belt Sander
Awareness sucks. There. I said it. Awareness is that critical ingredient that makes playing dumb, ignoring what’s right in front of my face, just plain impossible for me. But, I try…oh, how I try sometimes. But awareness always kicks my ass and wins. Now,...
We’re All Delusional, It Seems
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420 I’ve spent an awful lot of time the last few years thinking about all the various ways I’ve...Tears
Tears get a bad rap, I think. Or maybe that’s just me rationalizing, since they seem just a breath away lately. Sad tears. Lonely tears. Scared tears. Bone-tired tears. Nostalgic tears. Frustrated tears. Overwhelmed tears. Happy tears. Grateful tears. Joyful...