Fighting the Good Fight – Letting Go of Your Ego
One of the things that I love about rock climbing, is that I can hold all other things constant and fight the good fight. There are a number of “good fights” in life, but I’m learning that the primary...
View ArticleBeautiful questions
A new friend of mine wrote a wonderful blog entry about asking beautiful questions. As a researcher and Professor of Sociology, questions are critically important in her field. The beautiful ones, she...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day, Renewable Enthusiasm Day
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” - Zora Neale Hurston Speaking of Beautiful Questions, New Year’s Day has to be one of my favorite “beautiful question” kind-of-days. The...
View ArticleAre you resisting?
If you’ve endeavored to sit down and figure out your New Year’s adventure, resolution, consecration, theme, grand scheme, take-over-the-world-and-take-no-prisoners plan, and you find – “Squirrel!” –...
View ArticleA word on resistance
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” - Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle In my previous...
View ArticleMarch 10 – International Day of Awesomeness
I’m feeling very sheepish because it’s been almost a month since my last post. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about. I have at least 70 different ideas for blog posts that are just dying...
View ArticleSustainable Birthday
In the days leading up to my birthday last week, there was definitely an aura of funk in the air. That kind of funk born of the frustration that I mentioned in an earlier post that is so hazardous. Am...
View Article“Mindfulness – the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves…”
“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves…it can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.” - Thich Nhat...
View ArticleNurturing a mountain
A view of Bear Butte from the south. It gets its name from its resemblance to the form of a slumbering bear. In early July, I visited my Mom and step-dad in South Dakota, where they spent this summer...
View ArticleWhat to do when enthusiasm leaks out a torn back muscle…
When I came up with the framework for What Makes You Come Alive, I was looking forward to an autumn filled with rock climbing and connecting with old friends. And then…my back, which had been sore for...
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