Three words raced through my mind as I witnessed the moment between mother and child. It was at the checkout counter at the grocery store. Last minute supplies for a new year's celebration. Three words. The young child…maybe 7 years old…could have been older…was sitting in the grocery cart seat. She was staring at the […]

All used up, How does it feel to be all used up. That is how you should feel at the end of any effort or challenge. Nothing left in the tank. All reserve fuel gone. All used up. On the last day…in the last moment of any effort let it be all said and completed. […]

It was time.It had been six weeks since the motorcycle fall.So I started up the Triumph Scrambler and headed through the Everglades.The bike took me through Immokalee, down toward Everglades City, over to the Alley heading to Snake Road at mile marker 49.At the gas station I met two Outlaw Harley riders.We exchanged riding stories […]

There are phases of a lfe. There are ups, downs, some sideways slides, and some periods of calm and then storm. But there is always a beginning and an end. Only by acknowledging that there is a beginning and an end can you appreciate all the different phases. It finally hit her that she too […]

What do you remember most in the quiet moments of the day. What haunting memories flood your thoughts in the lonely hours of twilight. Lost opportunities or challenges met. Risks averted or dangers overcome. Loving moments or fragile separations. Honest exchanges or shadowy conversations. Live in the light. Live in the clarity. Don't live an […]

Are you user friendly. Are you life friendly. It was at the rental car counter that it hit me. We just flew in, we were tired and needed to get to downtown LA. The counter representative was not user friendly. The representative made the simple experience anything but. It got me thinking about being user […]

They say the black rhino is now extinct. A beautiful creature. My baseball cap says…BLACK RHINO on the front. I created that after the shaman journeys. Something about the black rhino that always fascinated me. But when I heard it was extinct it got me thinking of what else is or is on the verge […]

It is so easy to forget yet it needs to be always remembered…each day is the first and last one. Can you keep that thought somewhere in the back of your mind as you rush from one daily chore or challenge to the next. If you could keep that in mind how would it change […]

It is called by some the hour of the wolf. It has other names. The witching hour is another name for it. It is around 3 AM. What is it about the mid night. Not midnight but that time just a few hours before dawn that bring such mystery into a life. The night is […]

Some people just have the knack. Maybe it is the difference between the glass half full vs the glass half empty crowd. You see it all the time. Some can cope with major crisis and others crumble in a minor wind storm of life. Some see the context and put life is the larger historic […]