Death and Rituals – Why We Need to Embrace Them
Life Span It was not that long ago that death was part of the everyday experience and came early. If one survived childhood over 200 years ago they were lucky to get to 30 or 40 years of age. Being retired was certainly not a concept. From the late 18th century until...
Silence Is Golden In A World Full of Noise Pollution
Too Much Meaningless Chatter Talking does not need to take place for us to listen and communicate. Matter of fact it often gets in the way. We are constantly wrestling with our monkey mind, not to mention those gnarly conscious thoughts we carry with us everywhere. A...
Driving Behavior Is A Powerful Barometer
You Are How You Drive And It May Kill You or Someone Else Recent fatal driving behavior during a 48 hour period killed 6 people on several Central Oregon highways close to where I live. One accident involved someone going over the centerline (two lane highway),...
In Limbo And My Thoughts On Being Parentless
Limbo and Vertigo The past few months I have felt outside of myself, as if floating in the clouds. In limbo. Present enough to function in the day to day, but detached from more complicated matters. It began with some annoying imbalance issues and vertigo. My thoughts...
Abundance vs Scarcity – Why A Need For So Many Choices?
Abundance: The Downside Looking at a restaurant menu, I prefer to see only 5 choices. I mean really good choices, not 50 mediocre choices. Not to mention walking down the bread aisle at the grocery store where I want to explode because of the overwhelming and...
Walking In Mystery
Letting Go of Worry Life can often feel like walkingblindly into a cave Where there are no known factsof what is beyond our existing vision A seemingly darkand heavily anxious space Mystery is ever present Uneasiness abounds Each day I enter that metaphorical cave...