A farm at the edge of nowhere.
My grandmother’s grandparents ( or something like that ) come from a farm at the edge of nowhere. I went to visit once, six hours north of Chicago. Standing out front, an expanse of open nothingness as far as I…
Life and Love
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Through her eyes
We stepped off the 20+ hour plane ride and I didn’t even wait till we had a good night sleep, I immediately tried to get her to notice things. She’d be looking somewhere else, and I wanted her to see everything I…
Self-Care for the holidays: 4 ways to stay in balance
I don’t remember when I dropped out of all the drama of Christmas, but long enough ago that I almost don’t relate to it. I do remember that I left a cart in our local Best Buy full of stuff…
The ego never dies.
My friend and I have set out to establish a set of daily practices to work on our pride and ego. While we recognize the importance and strategic power of ego, we also each feel trapped by its ugliness, its…
The flaws of our ego
“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos– condition our vision of those…
To change the visible, you must first change the invisible
To change the fruits, you have to change the roots. To change the visible, you must first change the invisible. -T. H Eker More? dig for the root kind thoughts are the roots..
SILENCE = DEATH
The first person I ever knew with Aids was 37 years old. Still yet I’ve not met another person so courageous. Our national awareness didn’t rise in time for him. Back in the day, I did a research project on…
Hate has no home here.
Hate is knocking on our doorsteps. It’s begging to be let in. Even when you turn it away, hate finds ways to seep into our homes, our clothes, our bodies, our very bones. Hate for the choices of others. Hate…
fat, skinny, ugly, beautiful, gay, straight, up, down
I talk to people everyday who don’t look the part, don’t play the part. They don’t love whom society says they should. They don’t talk the mainstream talk. They don’t see the world as black and white. I listen…