Shedding the moment in the moment

By on 12/25/2012 in Meaning

I read the book when it first came out. It captured me completely. But then I watched the movie. I never thought anyone could film this story but there it was.  Wonderful. Recaptures you as the book first did. It got me thinking about so many things. Storytelling in a grand way. Our personal storytelling. […]

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A reframing of the narrative

By on 12/24/2012 in The Bigger Picture

The saying  on the tee shirt said it all. It was perfect on so many levels. I mean there we were on Christmas eve morning, at Crossfit, working out doing the wall balls, ball slams, push presses, snatches and squats over and over and…you get the idea by now. But there we were refusing to […]

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Digging deep and spreading kindness

By on 12/21/2012 in Ageless

As the year winds down, I look back on 2012. What a year of change. Quite amazing how it played out. It didn’t start that way. But it sure is ending that way. Change. It just can’t be denied or avoided. It is a good thing. It prevents us from just phoning in our life […]

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A smile, a helping hand and time

By on 12/18/2012 in Meaning

You can’t go back. It’s that simple. You can’t go back in time. Oh, you can dream about the past. You can reflect on past events. You can wish time travel existed.  But you can’t go back. You can adjust and adapt to what happened. You can try to live with the choices made and […]

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Fight the madness

By on 12/16/2012 in Meaning

Madness. How else to describe it. Absolute madness. Not only the shooting. Not only the deaths. Not only the ages of the children. Not only the  devastating loss. But the helpless feeling. The hopeless feeling. The sense of lack of any rationality to it. How to respond. How to react. What to believe. A moment […]

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Fighting against the ordinary

By on 12/15/2012 in Meaning

An endangered species. Ever think about the endangered species. I am not talking just about certain animals that may have been put on some such list. But rather certain qualities in people that seem endangered these days.  We get so used to the mediocrity that we don’t even recognize the truly exceptional any longer. We […]

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The passing cars

By on 12/13/2012 in The Bigger Picture

I remember when I was very young, driving someplace with my parents and my sister, and my mom saying, as each car went by, that in that car was a story. She said, in each car , there was a story of successes, failures, health, illness, first moments and last moments. In each car there […]

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The living legacy

By on 12/11/2012 in Passion

Well , I looked for one or more books that brings together my take on this improbable journey we are all on.  Although I found bits and  pieces here and there, I decided to see if I could put it down in one place. So  I started to write my story to see if it […]

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High five the day

By on 12/09/2012 in Ageless, CrossFit

The ageless experiment. The words just make sense to me. An experiment in ageless living. A challenge to live beyond categories. Live beyond boundaries. It applies to all ages and stages in life.  Don’t buy into some false restriction that others may want to impose on you. Live each day as the experiment that it […]

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The why of the day

By on 12/06/2012 in Meaning

Ever look out a window and just wonder. Just wonder why. Not any phrase after the word  “why”. Just why. Why we hustle around. Why we run here and there. Why we argue or need to win at all cost? Why?  I keep thinking that why should be taken off the table. It just doesn’t […]

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