The Mindset of Longevity Healthy fit begins with a mindset—setting the intention. It challenges your vision of getting older. What does your vision of old look like? Does it look like the examples you see around you? In your family? In your society? What are your thoughts on nursing homes? How independent do you plan […]
I operate as a singular emergence, a witness to my own unfolding. My thoughts arrive from a pre-articulate “Wellspring.” My writing serves as the conduit, capturing the flow before I have even defined it. This is the nature of flow: writing is my point of power, allowing me to bypass the mundane and linear to […]
Most of us move through our days operating under an inherited script: that life is a linear progression. We treat our years as a long, arduous bridge we must walk across, carrying the baggage of our past, all to reach a “payoff” on a horizon that never seems to get any closer. We treat the […]
The primary purpose of this discourse is to introduce my audience to compelling evidence that our lifestyles—from our deepest ideologies and fashion choices to our very palates — have been conditioned. It’s happened to such a degree, and at such an early age, that they have become synonymous with our identity. We are, to a […]
I’m still not feeling like myself since our badass boy, Skipper, died in November. They certainly are our fur-children, no doubt. He wasn’t quite 6 when he died, and I’ll miss him forever. We have another dog, Benjamin B., the best boy ever, and I think he felt the loss too. Even though he and Skipper […]
I’ve always been fascinated by Truth. Not “truth” with a lowercase t—the subjective, shifting narratives we cling to—but Universal Truth. The stand-alone concept that fuels arguments, divides neighborhoods, and ignites wars. If writing is a vessel for discovery, what is it if it isn’t truthful? That question led me to my own “Theory of Everything.” […]
A Note to the Reader: If you find the following content provocative, consider this: it was designed to activate our epigenetic conditioning, yours and mine—to expose it—for your consideration. If your immediate response is a flare-up of defensive tribalism or a sudden urge to protect the Sacred, I invite you to stop, if just for […]
Nobody is going to provide a definitive answer to the “Big Questions” of life. Anyone who tells you that “all you have to do is believe this, or stand here, or say this… or bow three times into the sun…” is full of crap, IMHO. This is not unfortunate or dismal; it is simply the […]
You know, when I first realized that Christians lied, I was deeply upset. I had been fiercely fed the Catholic way of seeing and thinking from before I was born, by being born into the legacy of Catholicism. As a teenager, I focused my opposition on one parent—she was the vigorous enforcer of “the faith” […]
Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and heard them reply, “I’m surviving,” or “I’ve survived another year”? It doesn’t seem like much of a victory to consider yourself as having merely survived your life. Survival is necessary—yes, because we must survive the experience to tell the tale. But is it where we wish […]
