Not Doing is Your Undoing
July 7, 2025
We don’t need pessimists or optimists. Or for that matter, “realists.” We need activists! People who act on their values, walking their path of passion and purpose.
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Writing is part of my meditative process to clarify my thoughts, to align my actions and to focus on my purpose. I write about my emotions, my shortcomings, and my ideas for a better world through poetry, prose, and what I call rantifestos every day, some of which I post here on my blog and on social media. I share them to help others move along their paths to live and lead with compassion.
Get closer to what you seek
October 9, 2023
People who say it cannot be doneshould not interrupt those who are doing it.Attributed to many people Why are you hesitating, holding back, reluctant to
Resume Virtues to Legacy Virtues
October 2, 2023
What you leave behindis not what is engraved in stone monuments,but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles In one of the classes I
Beyond Burnout
September 25, 2023
When you feel outside of yourself,a decreased sense of meaning in your life,and you have most everything that you are supposed towant in your life, but then you look
Life is not short, but we make it so
September 18, 2023
It is not that we have a short time to live,but that we waste a lot of it.Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amounthas
Life in Perspective, Explained by Coco Gauf
September 11, 2023
I think it’s just putting my life into perspective.I realize this is pressure, but there’s people struggling to feed their families, people who don’t know where
The Randomness of Falling Branches
September 5, 2023
It is a magnificent feeling to recognizethe unity of a complex of phenomenawhich appear to be things quite apartfrom the direct visible truth. Einstein A colleague
Secure in our insecurity
August 28, 2023
We seem to be like flies caught in honey.Because life is sweet we do not want to give it up.And yet the more we
Crooked Hearts, Crooked Neighbors
August 7, 2023
You shall love your crooked neighborwith your crooked heart. WH Auden If only it were all so simple!If only there were evil people somewhereinsidiously committing evil deeds,and it were necessary only to separate
Imagine Sisyphus Happy
July 31, 2023
We tend to think of Sisyphus as a tragic hero,condemned by the gods to shoulder his rocksweatily up the mountain, and again up the mountain,
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