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A safe harbor

There are times when the winds of change are howling or life is just tossing you unwanted situations to deal with. Let me suggest that in life there are times when you might feel adrift. Lost. Untethered. Create your own safety secure harbor. Create the safe place that you can go to in order to […]

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The if only choice

A good friend, who wrote a wonderful review of Hour of the Wolf, asked a question at dinner recently in Miami. Nothing like old friends catching up and enjoying the mutual history of the successes, failures and lessons that are life. Three friends toasting and realizing how fortunate we are. Yes, we all went through […]

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The unassuming leader

His mind was made for things other than what he did. He was creative. He was witty. He was very smart…not just books but life smart. Yet, life had thrown him a curve ball. Between the depression and illnesses, he settled into the routine of 9-5 work at a factory type setting. Important work but […]

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The hour glass

Let’s reframe it. Sit back. Turn off all the gadgets. Shut off all the noise. Enter the silence. The beautiful, lyrical silence. Then turn your attention to the hour glass sitting on the shelf in your mind. The sands in the hour glass. Each one makes a difference. Each piece of sand slowly at first […]

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The book of your life

The day comes when the book is found on your nightstand. You open it up and each page is blank. The age that you find it differs from person to person. But sooner or later the book is found. An empty book. Each page blank. Yet, the time will come when each page is filled. […]

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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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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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Embracing the Wolf

Hour of the Wolf/An Experiment in Ageless Living….will be kindle free on August 5,6,7. It is an opportunity to read and share the philosophy of ageless living. Being the hero in your life story. Realizing that there is no expiration date on dreams. This is my ode to the ongoing adventure thst is our unfolding […]

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What does it for you?

The sun was high in the noon sky. The air was still crisp. I pulled the Triumph over to a vacant building in Hygiene,Colorado. After I got off the scrambler and took the gloves, glasses and helmet off, I sat down on an old wooden bench. After about 15 minutes of watching a few cars […]

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The meaning of our life today

The question was asked in a very matter of fact way…so, what is the meaning of life.  As we thought about it the question was adjusted…what is the meaning of your life. The meaning of one life…one day…your life today. Maybe, just maybe  we can say that the meaning of our life today is how […]

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