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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Might Be Goy
Posted: August 22, 2011 in dating, humor, Life, living, romanceTags: apartment, artistic license, climate control, dating, humor, Jewish, living, water pressure
Have to admit: since moving in to the new place I find I’m falling more and more in heavy like with it. Not yet willing to pilot the boat to the end of the Tunnel of “Love” just yet. Give it time. Oh there are a few little annoyances. Like the fact that the laundry [...]
Summer Sponge
Posted: July 29, 2011 in Life, livingTags: clubs, conversations, David Bowie, flirting, night, summer, walking, warmth
Everywhere you go, you hear complaints about the heat this summer. You understand. You’ve walked out into the oven blast usually experienced by workers at pizza shops. Your shirt soaked with sweat testifies to the minimal movement required to raise your temperature. But when the night comes and the summer breeze washes your face….. well isn’t [...]
People Soup
Posted: July 21, 2011 in Life, livingTags: aboriginals, behaviour, father, homeless, homosexuality, Toronto, weird
People here are fascinating. And not in a “gee, what wonderfully intellectual stimulation” sense. I mean behaviours are just so far outside of what I consider “the norm” that time chases its own tail trying to keep up. Toronto is defined from the mix of its people who make their way here from all [...]
Release
Posted: June 24, 2011 in humor, Life, living, writingTags: divorce, living, marriage, taxi, writing
The capricious breeze sauntered carelessly through his stubborn hair, pushing this way and that until the dogged gel that was holding everything together finally sighed, shrugged its shoulders and gave up. Whereupon, the follicle company, mimicking the primordial warrior dance of the galaxies, began its mad performance. The hair’s owner, oblivious to the upper level [...]
Move
Posted: June 11, 2011 in Life, livingTags: Life, movers, moving, sometimes you pay good money for stress avoidance
There’s a certain senseless joy that comes unexpectedly sometimes. A sense that everything is ridiculously OK. Better than OK. Good. Better than good – but precise words escape you. Recently, this happened during what would have been an otherwise stressful time. Mind you, part of the catalyst for this was planned. Years ago, when I [...]
Longing for The Rapture – or a Heart Attack
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Life, livingTags: depression, divorce, dogma, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, The Rapture
So we’ve come through the weekend and no rapture has occurred. No planes fell out of the sky, pilotless, no suddenly empty chairs at restaurants, no sets of clothes sitting on park benches, no empty operating tables, with nurses and doctors scratching their heads, wondering where the open heart surgery patient went. For most of [...]
