Don’t Escape With Someone Else’s Goat
What I love goats, and what I learned about relationships from goat behavior.
Read MoreHeart Melting
Today marks a spring into new life. I have already marked many false starts of warm days, and felt the effects of warming in our atmosphere beginning to show. In the reality of change, I am aware of a subtle melting that doesn’t appear in my immediate perception. Thanks to National Geographic photographer James Balog and his work documenting glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, and Montana, I have a better vision for the effects of global warming. Balog’s curiosity about...
Read MoreResolve this! (Or, why I chose not to make a resolution)
Now that the buzz-filled energy of the holidays has settled (at least enough for me to find a moment to sit down and write), it is time to re-visit the resolutions made for the year we are now living. My twenty-twelve was a year of transitions. I saw myself, my friends, my nation, and my planet move through many shifts, leaps and bounds, growing pains, hard truths, and changes. I shook up the snow globe that is my life, moving away from the home I have always known, the security that made...
Read MoreI Am That
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition” -Michel de Montaigne I recently encountered a breakup that I was ready for. Not that I was ready to say goodbye, because leaving is never easy. But before the actual split I had already processed the truth of separation. Relationships are circular, and oftentimes the very beginning gives us clues to future consciousness. This particular relationship was no exception. Looking back, I had witnessed the end in a single...
Read MoreWhere Does Life Begin?
Don’t overthink the answer. Life is a bit subtler than what the mind can comprehend. Look a little lower and deeper, and you will find the drum that never ceases to beat for you. It is where you begin and end. It is what circulates your liveliness. If you’re not listening to it, I’d be willing to bet you’re not really living. Yet. Press your ear up to that door that unlocks all of what is hidden within you. Do not shy away from the noise, hiding in the places that cause you no pain, nor...
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