Is It Such a Bad Thing?

Doing what we love—and actually feeling it I found myself sitting with a question today—one borrowed from the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. She wrote that while in Italy—learning the language, enjoying the food, and more importantly, re-relearning how to enjoy her life—she asked herself: “Is it such a bad thing to live …

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Signs Along the River

“This isn’t a political reflection. It’s a story about recognizing the moment when ego loosens its grip on the shifter and the soul takes the handlebars.” I took a cold weather bike ride along the Merrimack River today, bundled up and feeling good to be back on familiar roads. Amesbury, Newburyport, West Newbury, and Merrimack …

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A Crank, A Quote and A Buddha

Authors Note: This is a repost of a story written on June 18th 2015. I think you may find motivating if not inspiring ...It has been updated these many year later with a response for the subject's wife of this story posted at the end.... I've been blogging for close to 20 years and have …

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