It’s an interesting thing, that we greet each New Year with hopes and aspirations. We like new beginnings, and since time is measured by our calendar, we naturally realize the best time to make a change is when the year seems new. The funny thing is, we follow a calendar that is artificial. The...
Read more →It is timely for me that I picked up Steven Pressfield’s book “Turning Pro” recently, and cracked it open this weekend. A quick read, the book totally spoke to me about where I have been of late. In it, Pressfield readdresses some concepts he introduced in “The War of Art,” about work and getting...
Read more →My brother and his family have been packing up all this week for a moment that occurs early tomorrow morning- when they will collectively pile into two vehicles, and start a long drive that will take them out of New Mexico. Moving away. Possibly for good. I shouldn’t look at this transition in our...
Read more →Every year we make ’em. Every year we break ’em. Why do we keep doing this? New Years’ resolutions. Yes, from one angle, they can be a list of goals we expect to not reach. That weight we can’t lose. That instrument we can’t seem to learn. That trip we can never seem to...
Read more →Not hip to the hot R&B of the 90’s, I came across this tune on my Backstreet Boys station on Pandora (no snickering!), and all I can say is I love the sterling sound of these brothers’ blended vocals. I wish I could sing, and if I could I wish I could sing in...
Read more →This morning when my alarm went off at 5:30, I pretty much cursed it and then texted my friend Kurt, trying to talk him out of our scheduled Loop run. I had been having a good dream and my bed was warm and I just wanted to sleep, so everything in me did not...
Read more →The weekend was good. I’m becoming a little more active than I have been of late. My buddy Kurt and I got three Loop jogs in last week. My body needs the exercise to, of all things, stave off aches and pains, among other reasons. I could lose a few pounds as well. We’ll...
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I love the lyrics to the chorus of this song. Contrary to the covert relationship portrayed in the video, authentic love encourages us to be visibly strong and dedicated to those we love, and draws us to also encourage and nurture strength in others. It drives us to be strength in the storm, to...
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Take 80’s “I Can Dream About You” guy, throw in the goofy frenetic action of the movie “Fletch”, and weave in some pseudo club beats, and you get this peppy pill. This is dedicated to my bro ChrisP, because “It’s the name of the game- it’s not about money…” That about says it all....
Read more →It’s amazing how memories of a book that you read can become heavily associated with the place or places where you read it. I thought it’d be fun to make a short list of some of the books I’ve read that have strong ties to places and moments in my history and memory. “An...
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I’ve been re-reading one of the earliest books I remember cracking open and really loving, and one of the books that got me really into reading for the first time- Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen”. The book’s main theme? A couple of religious young men fight to maintain lives of faith while also trying to...
Read more →It’s been a weird week this week as I can see I am sliding into another pool of sadness. I think I deal with this each year around the holidays because I feel a strong sense of being alone during this month and some. Today the melancholy is registering more tangibly. I know some...
Read more →When I started high school, I was a kid in transition. I was growing at odd intervals. My acne ebbed and receded like waves on a beach. I was in a lot of activities, and I was pretty anonymous in all of them. And I was adrift socially (as I have often been since)....
Read more →A favorite version of this tune.
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