Archive | October, 2013

The flight home

A dream. Some times doesn’t it feel like it is all a dream? We wandered Cambodia and Vietnam. Each day opened a new lesson, experience, appreciation of a different way of living a life and seeing the world. From Buddhist monasteries in Cambodia to island caves in Halong Bay in Vietnam. So moving. Putting life […]

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Launching your destiny

You walk through a cave. To get there you work your way through a jungle. To get to the jungle you board a launch that goes from the ship to the island. All moving parts working in unison. But it all starts with the desire to be present in the moment that is your life. […]

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Break the routine

The great thing about travel, especially to new places and meeting new people, is that it breaks open the narrative of your life thst so often is covered in the daily ritual and routine that you miss out on the beauty of the gift of your life. Wandering Hoi An and Hue we traveled back […]

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The kingdom of now

As we walked the ancient kingdom of Champa outside of Hoi An, you can’t help but have a flood of mixed emotions. Beautiful, lonely, yet once grand and the center of a kingdom of great wealth and influence, you sense the frailty of life. The false sense of permanence in our existence that is anything […]

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Step out into the new

From Angkor Wat to Angkor Thom to a Buddhist monastery at sunrise in Siem Reap, Cambodia to Saigon and boating down the Mekong River, life opens up its possibilities. New adventures, foods, cultures, experiences, insights, philosophies, friendships and connections to larger stories helps put each day and life in better context. Be open to the […]

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A new unexpected path

How do you define adventure? Thursday we missed the flight from SF to Taipei. So we needed to reroute and a day later we flew from SF to Seattle then to Taipei then to Cambodia catching a domestic flight to Siem Reap. 30 hours of flying and layovers. But some say an adventure doesn’t start […]

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Hour of the Wolf….join the conversation

What is it about time that is so fascinating. The clock ticks and your life winds down yet we run around spending it on what? I know we need to pay the bills. I know we want to live a fruitful life. Life has so much to offer yet we seem to box ourselves in […]

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The wisdom is waiting

Today you start to get the feeling that all the adults have left the room and we are trapped in some weird really bad reality talk show where the nonsense, noise and bad conduct are the things that are rewarded. Where does it get anyone? What is the endgame? I have come to the conclusion […]

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Seeking the question

The question you never thought to ask. Sometimes it comes down to digging deep inside to seek out the question that holds the answer. So often we don’t want to admit we don’t even know the right question. But if we truly want to move forward in our life we need the courage to admit […]

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