Category: Life Navigation

Finding Your Limits

One has to be willing to be thrown out. Tossed out, ejected, bucked off, asked to leave, forced to alter directions. How else does one

Managing Failure

Life is about managing our failings, our mistakes, our shortcomings. We don’t get a perfect set-up. Our bodies are not flawless; our abilities are always

F#ck It!

Don’t Blow It Off Don’t just say “Fu@k  it!,” turning your back on lost opportunities and bad breaks. It feels good for a moment but

Layoff into Adventure

 “It’s not an adventure,” my wife adamantly replies. On its face, I would agree that having the family’s sole bread winner, wage earner, gainfully employed linchpin laid

A Series of Moments

We’re not on a line, let alone a straight one. Slice it up into little sections, little pieces. That’s more like it. Pauses that are

Hoops

Jumping though hoops. How much of succeeding in life is just jumping through them? No matter how simple or complex, how useful or ridiculous? Take

Do What You Want

Do what you want – until someone tells you that you can’t. Life can be imposing, daunting. We feel as though we should do this,

Zen, Interlaced

All my adult life I have appreciated the Zen-like perspective of keenly observing that which is around me, of letting things flow past rather than

Pushing the Boundary Line

To find our limits, we have to feel them, touch them, push against them. Once found, limits can be depressing. After all, they are constraints!

Living Along the Edges

Momentum pushes water in waves down the middle of a river, carrying the flow and volume as it rushes to the sea in springtime, slowing