choices

Use it or lose it: your brain, that is

02.22.2010

Really, I was afraid of making the wrong decision. At the age of 43, I didn’t want to start down a road, using up precious time and money, and then realizing it was a road I didn’t want to be on after all.

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Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom

02.08.2010

I want to live
right through to the end in full frontal
engagement, awake to everything.

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How To Save Your Own Life

01.03.2010

I can see How To Save Your Own Life on the bedside table of someone who likes to fall asleep at night with something spiritually-provocative on their mind

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How To Beat The Deadline Trap

12.14.2009

As I lolled in the sand in a state of total relaxation and bliss, I had a revelation…

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What Makes a Home?

12.06.2009

We never do leave home. Every house we’ve ever lived in has helped form us into who we are, has followed along with us every step of the way.

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Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

11.29.2009

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For

08.27.2009

The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace because the world has gotten more complex and interdependent.

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On The Road Again: The MidLife Version

08.10.2009

It was the second night, when I found myself on the border of Colorado and Kansas, that I wished for the comfort of my own bed, the routine of my life, and not the countless miles of pavement that stretched before me.

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Midlife Crisis and Reinvention

08.06.2009

“Your right to throw a punch stops at my face.” I remember hearing this expression years ago as a basic definition of freedom in the United States. I thought of it more recently when I read Jon Gosselin’s plea for public understanding of his romances and his new career as a clothing designer so soon after [...]

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