A few weeks ago, I wrote a short story called Denial that was pushed out to platforms beyond this one. On one of the other platforms, someone commented that one has to dig deep to confront someone else with that word… Denial. Now, I haven’t actually logged into that platform more than once or twice … Continue reading Hard Truths
I’ve reread Gawain & The Green Knight this week for the first time in probably 18 years. If you’re not familiar with this work, it is a lengthy poem with 101 stanzas (2532 lines) that was originally written in Middle English by no one knows who somewhere around the 14th century… we think. While I … Continue reading “Gawain & the Green Knight” ⁂ Classics
Don’t be my peace. Be at peace with yourself so you won’t disturb mine. ::author unknown:: I don’t just feel the *yes* I feel coming from a place of wanting others to be at peace. People make decisions thinking about how they will impact their own lives but they rarely think about how they will … Continue reading Be at Peace
How do we conceptualize love and measure it? What is it about the connection we have with another human being that it can seem to transcend such divisions, experiences, and barriers seemingly set in place to where even distance and silence cannot squelch it because it is felt in the heartbeat of the earth, the … Continue reading “Ocean Size Love” ~ The Sound of My Day
There’s a taboo about talking honestly about things in our society but I am one of those irritatingly honest people that laughs at those “social norms” because those things limit understanding and personal empowerment. So as an amputee, I’m not going to hide behind the proverbial green door in favor of the taboo that says … Continue reading Beyond the Green Door: I’m No Grey Man
Every human being we interact with is either crediting your emotional ledger or creating an emotional debit and it is not enough simply to be happy when you are no longer in the hole or just barely getting by with chump-change in your accounts. The whole idea of the ledger is not to judge the other or ascribe intent or motive to the other, it is simply to recognize that your physical and emotional well-being are impacted by the balance of your ledger and not everyone you have a relationship with is someone who leaves your ledger a little bit fuller after every interaction you have with them. Continue reading Check Your Ledger
Today I decided to do something I hadn’t done with one foot yet: Yoga I’m not talking about just a floor practice, either. There were no warrior poses but I did everything else. And do you know what I discovered? Yoga with one foot is really challenging. I can hear my friend Ani channeling Alan … Continue reading To Leap, Or Not To Leap
