Several times in my life, maybe much of my life, I’ved used sleep as an escape. It allows me to suspend the struggle, the anxiety, the effort. But even as I love to sleep, especially in periods of particular struggle and change, my very being, deep down, pushes me back out, Out of the darkness …
Category: voices
Bliss
Looking back, this is the third time I’ve written about this idea, third blog post about Bliss, This must be the magic…maybe so if the other two posts weren’t … tho’ I think they were pretty good too, So here’s another simple take on bliss, this time around, how to define Bliss? It manifests when …
A Day, Life Contemplated
For better or worse, this is me, a contemplated life, Natural sense of what’s normal practice, most of my day spent in this way, my way, Mind mulling, running dialogue in the back-ground, considering it all, work, kids, relationships otherwise, Decisions made, actions waiting, What was, is, could be, What are the possibilities, probabilities, execution …
Missing Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain - chef, author, TV storyteller blending food and travel - I miss him. I loved his particular voice, observations, his progression in life and perspective on things. The demons took him, like they’ve taken so many; as I’ve written before, Cornell, Williams, Montrose, my paternal grandfather, my cousin, all cut down by a …
Are We Done?
Well, as for me, I don’t think so. I don’t think we are done with COVID. Or actually better said, COVID isn’t done with us. More than a million people have died of COVID in the US alone… Variants still active and cases fluctuating up and down, So when I think it’s appropriate, I’m in …
An Attitude of Gratitude
This captures the attitude…let it be so… A Prayer for Generosity, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola… “Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,Teach me true generosity.Teach me to serve you as you deserve.To give without counting the cost,To fight heedless of wounds,To labor without seeking rest,To sacrifice myself without thought of any rewardSave the knowledge …
Longing
When I’m with them, sometimes they’re too much, their combined energy so powerful, immediate, demanding… And when they are gone I long for them back, I long for more, My own version of synchronicity (as Sting wrote and The Police sang), At our best we ponder and revel, and soak up the moments, soak up …
Priorities
We all have them. How to sort, categorize? Professional? For sure. How we make living, how we pay the bills, But family too, gotta say, gotta say, family is first…it’s a hard pull sometimes, but that’s my take. Different philosophies around that, plenty of business people who sometimes - maybe even often - fudge their …
Fighting For Time
It seems I’m often fighting for time, At home, at work, with my kids. With myself, In the evening, daytime, middle of the night, Like right now, scribbling at 3:00am, awakened by thoughts about work, life, struggles, battles, Fleeting joy, this I know, fighting for time, not so good, slight of hand preferred, slight improvements …
What We Need
Funny thing, consider what we need. Two samples, both sides, bubble up in mind, consider if you will, Our older daughter swiftly approaching her teen years, wants a mobile phone, of course of course, Has a “practice phone just now”, no service, limited doings possible just now, All the same, wanted a “pocket socket” for …
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