A month ago, a friend had challenged me to sit for an hour, just to concentrate – and maybe pray – about where I want to be, what I wanted to. It was a goal that was fairly open-ended. I did. I sat on the floor, on my yoga mat (shaddap) with a [...]
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Curious Questions for You
Posted: May 21, 2012 in Life, livingTags: anger, awareness, creativity, Life, living, music, universe, writing
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Arrogance and the Handstand
Posted: May 14, 2012 in Life, living, truth-tellingTags: Alanis Morissette, curiosity, dogma, entertainment, Kevin Smith, living, obstinate ignorance, spirituality
There was a time when …. We were limited to our interactions with just a handful of friends. When the sum of what we “knew for sure!” consisted of what our teachers said at school, and what our parents said at home, and what our priests said at church. We unknowingly carried prejudices, and assumptions. [...]
The Persistent Bachelor
Posted: April 28, 2012 in dating, Life, living, romanceTags: damage, dating, Life, mates, relationships
“So why aren’t you with someone by now?” He shrugged. ”I don’t know.” Her arched eyebrow provoked further explanation. ”Honestly, I really don’t know.” “You don’t seem worried about it. Do you care?” He felt lucky to have her as a friend. He had a penchant for gravitating to truth-tellers. People who would say [...]
Smiling Silence
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Life, living, romanceTags: coincidence, Life, links, purpose, unexplainable
“Seems like…..I can’t explain it.” He shook his head. She nudged his foot with hers. “Try.” He sipped his coffee, thinking. Remembering. ——– They had met a little over two months ago, in the middle of what he thought was the worst time of his life. One morning he had arrived at work, unaware [...]
But Why?
Posted: March 25, 2012 in Life, living, religionTags: coincidence, curiosity, faith, God, Life, questions
Someone once asked me why I believe in God. There was a slight tone of disbelief and maybe a hint of derision swirling around with the query as it sailed through the air to my ears. Still, it was a honest curiosity from a guy who, while he didn’t believe in God, certainly [...]
Something wicked this way smiles
Posted: March 13, 2012 in Life, livingTags: awareness, change, clarity, consequences, illness, lightening, paradigm shift, thunder, truth-telling, vision, weighing the price
The shimmering electric outline of anticipation becomes achingly apparent when a pall descends – and then you realize how lucky you were. You have excitedly made a pact with yourself to avoid using the present as a stop-gap, a filler, an incidental nothing, on your way to something else, some grand plan – achievable only after you’ve “put in [...]
Leaping from the Norm
Posted: March 4, 2012 in humor, Life, living, romanceTags: comedy, improv, Life, living, passion, risks, romance, skydiving
He took a long slow slip of his Chardonnay. It was a great night – he couldn’t think of a single thing to make it better. Well maybe one thing. A girl he’d been seeing. He loved her smile, and her unpredictable thoughts. And her long long legs. He realized that he missed her. [...]
Whirling and whirling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, backtrack, forget, humor, Life, living, meds, shiny
*thinking* “Shoot, I’m late. Better call a cab.” “Wait. I’m not nearly ready and if I rush I’m going to forget something. Better get everything together first, then when I’m about five minutes from being ready – THEN call.” “Good.” I nodded to myself. “Smart thinking” I ignored the brightly coloured fairy lights flitting around [...]
Tell the Truth
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Life, living, truth-tellingTags: blather, capricious, chit-chat, fire, I hate phones, living, passion, risk, romance, scary, truth
“I DON’T BELIEVE YOU ALVIN!!!” Teacher barked in clear frustration. ”You’re acting. Stop it!” Teacher sat back in his chair, face all red, incensed. “Bob, sit down. Let me work with him.” Bobby quickly made his way to his seat and Teacher stood up at the front of the room and faced Alvin. “You’re [...]
Rainy Paradise
Posted: January 2, 2012 in Life, living, writingTags: alternative medicine, Canada, friendly people, massage, more rain, organic foods, rain, rainforest, Tofino, travel, wellness, yoga, young people
“You need to pay more attention to your Chi.” I heard those words while sitting in a diner in Tofino, B.C. today. Seemed to resonate soundly, fitting completely with the laid back young atmosphere of this rainy little resort town. Tofino is a beautiful anomaly. It hardly rarely gets any warmer than 15 degrees during [...]
The extent to which people will go to separate you from your money is ridiculously amazing sometimes. I was thinking about this when it got to be time to go through and see the fish caught in the helpful spam net provided by WordPress – comments that never made it to my blogs because of [...]
Sometimes the privilege come your way and you don’t even realize it until the moment’s gone. That serendipitous moment that leaves you stunned and staring in disbelief. You don’t even want to move, because you might blink and in blinking you might miss a crucial half second of this moment. So you just stand there, [...]
Voyeur and Voyager
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Life, living, writingTags: art, bits and bites, creativity, death, disease, instability, Jitterbug Perfume, joy, Life, nesting, The Machine, Tom Robbins, writing
How much electronic pain must be suffered at the delighted hands of masochistic fairy muses, who flit about teasing the writer with half-formed ideas? All day long this one has been continually dive-bombed by brilliant sparkling thoughts, only to see them fade away as soon as the mental hand reaches out to grasp. At [...]
Advice to My Teenage Self
Posted: November 13, 2011 in ADHD, Life, livingTags: acting, ADHD, advice, awareness, empathy, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, music, open mind, prejudice
If you could write a letter to yourself when you were sixteen, what would you say? Joseph Galliano, an editor, has compiled a list of letters from people many of us know, and has created a book from that collection, entitled “Dear Me. A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self”. So….. What would I say? It [...]
Just Tell It To Me Quick Doc – I’ve Got Places To Be
Posted: November 10, 2011 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADHD, Chinese medicine, ethics, Indian medicine, Médecins Sans Frontières, pills, placebo, psychsomatic illness, quick diagnosis, self-diagnosis
“You’re having trouble urinating? Here’s a script for OxyContin. Won’t help the problem, but you won’t care anymore.” You wouldn’t trust a doctor who treated you this way, and neither would I. Some patients are looking for just such treatment though – and for them, a doctor who did this would be a god-send. There [...]
Trying on Some Moccasins
Posted: October 22, 2011 in Life, livingTags: Arab Spring, being poor, mortgage, no house, no job, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, Tiananmen Square
You know, when the news first came out about the Occupy Wall Street protests and demonstrations, my cynicism kicked in. There were no clear demands. I didn’t know what they wanted. They had lots of complaints, but little to no information on “what should we do about it?” In the 60′s, the protesters demanded peace. [...]
Laughing, Loons, Lakes and Landings – Our Canoe Trip Part 3 of 3
Posted: October 19, 2011 in humor, Life, livingTags: back pain, bears, camping, canoeing, lions and tigers and bears oh--no just bears, loons, Pepper spray, sunsets
The final campsite looked over the water of the lake to the west. When we found it initially I was just glad we had found something. A place to set up our tent. I had no idea of the beauty we were going to eventually see. I’m sure Angie did. Not me though – my [...]
Camping Nemesis – Now It’s Personal (Our Canoe Trip, Part 2)
Posted: September 23, 2011 in humor, LifeTags: camping, canoeing, I detest bugs, I hate bugs, It's not that I've got a bug phobio oh who am I kidding bugs terrify me
(This is a continuation of the story of our summer canoe trip. If you missed the first one, go here) As long as I could remember, I had a fear of bugs. Not the kind of stand-on-the-chair-hold-your-skirts-and-scream-like-a-little-girl fear. No, it was a dread that went bone-deep. A loathing that made my mouth go [...]
