How important is Connecting with Nature

Or reconnecting with nature might be a better description. Growing up I used to hunt with my father. From the time I can remember he would really start perking up towards the end of summer as he prepped his gear and worked on his plans. He grew up half wild from the stories I've heard …

Who are your people?

What clan do you claim? Or Genus, Order, Faternity, Family... there are many org's one can identify with. Or be of. Groups we are born into, or have joined along our path. Or ones we strive to belong to, that we wish to be in. Its possible, and done by some, to be in so …

This is the way

I've been stuck latley, thinking about my future self and the present goings ons. So the future is some destination I will be at, a certain different position of the earth in our galaxy, with new numbers on the calender some years from now. What I am doing in this precise moment is laying out …

What is the write programming?

So it's something like this. Perhaps. There is alot to be said (and is) about letting go. Letting go of negative things is a good idea. We can, and do, cling to those easily enough. Same with negative people, and thoughts and emotions. All the stuff that is causing one to suffer. Releasing it all, …

Trust the force Luke.

Listen to your inner voice. Or urges, intuitions, guardian Angel's, gut feelings..... it's all the same. Everything you need is already within. Debatable in some senses, but one doesnt need to believe something for it to be true or false. It just is, that by turning within, by bringing our awareness and intentions inwards, that …

Which OS version am I running on?

I'm sure most people have noticed how absorbed we all are in our devices now. Screen enamoured, fascinated with our incoming and outgoing data, in all its forms. Smart phones, tablets, switches, bluetooth, WIFI, tethering....all portals to another dimension, can we say? One full of anything a person could desire, or at least some version …

Most heroes are not born

I think they are forged. Through processes involving heat and pressure and time. And the greater these factors are applied, and by the skill of the craftsmen are the quality of heroes produced. It's a cause and effect process that may be hard or impossible to cheat. Or substitute, or circumvent or duplicate. We all …

Where does a thought go?

Serious question, though it feels like one my son would ask me. The obvious answer is nowhere. You have one and it disappears back into the void of your mind, maybe to be recycled into another one, or bob back up at a later date if its a particularly stubborn one. I dont think they …

Hiatus terminus

Long break from putting thoughts to paper. Not that the stream dried up any.... I just lost the urge to write them down for awhile. Maybe there will be periods of thinking separating the analysis parts. What's jolted me from the hibernation is swirling thoughts around our roles in helping those around us deal with …

The dark side.

It's a trap! And I've fallen right into it. I was discussing somethings with a friend and blurted out some self truth. I didnt realize it was meant to be directed towards myself until days later. I was trying to work out some thoughts about the dual nature of things about and of ourselves. How …

I’m a mixed bag of cats.

Does this sound familiar? I heard something the other day to the effect of, the further one progresses through their life, the more unique and odd it becomes. Man does that ring true. At least it is for me. Because I've got so many weirdnesses about myself, I could keep a team of Jungians busy …

John Barleycorn

Oh lord. There are so many ways to write what should be my most important message. I think part of the delay has been the daunting task of trying to picture how to structure the telling. It was a special kind of hell to live through, and if I cant organize that into something useful …

Do I need

To be really busy to be better? Does having little free time help force me to try to maximize certain things? Strain for efficiency? Sidestep or eliminate the time wasting bullshit? I've built life time balance pie charts before, you have your slices for work, sleep, exercise, family time, and so on. I'm not exact …

Sauna thought

Though 'thought' is a softer description than I would use for some of the things that come pushing up in my mind, like lava in Hawaii, when I would rather them not. I've learned theres no plugging them, or silencing, appeasing, distracting, delaying.... any of the tactics I've cultivated in my toolbox. So I let …

Square pegs

Are you like me? Are we like us? I recognize more often, and better identify moments of self social masking. Depending who I am around I become a character of myself, built and maintained over time, using my past experiences as a rudder to steer into the future. At work I am one sort of …