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The Slow Train
It doesn’t matter so much where I’m going, so long as I’m going. Of the pieces of the pie that divvy up my happiness when I’m on a train, I don’t know exactly how much is allocated to, “I’m neither...
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Stilo Campo
Do you ever want to move to a city … just for a restaurant? It was one of those places that could do no wrong. Where every single bite of every single dish was a delight to the senses. I had to stop,...
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That’s what makes a life.
A comment on a post reminds me that all of the little things make up the big thing. I just hit 300 Posts in 300 Days, but it took a comment from Lone Morch to remind me that all of those little events...
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Slow is King
The plane takes exactly one hour. The train takes twelve–but it might be twenty. We’re almost there: only three more hours. But I’m not ready to get off. I heard a passenger say he couldn’t wait to get...
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A Taste of Heaven on a Monday Night
Indian, SpotIt!, Donald Duck … and mijn jongetjes. I’m running 34 website projects at the same time, stuffy head/nose/throat this morning, no energy, and there are still multiple of who-knows-what on...
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Sycamore Row
A good place to get lost for a week: somewhere in the backwoods of Mississippi. Learn, improve, DIY, success … been reading so much lately about bettering your self, your business, your health, your...
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Hadley’s Date Shake
If you’re anywhere near Palm Springs, it’s worth a short detour to have a date with a shake. Nestled in between light brown, rock candy mountains and forests of towering white windmills, next to a...
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V is for Vengeance
It’s been a while since I read a Sue Grafton novel. Part of the charm is that they’re set in Santa Barbara. Sue Grafton’s V is for Vengeance She has no cell phone, no Internet, no email and she still...
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5 in a Bed
First thing in the morning and nowhere to go. It doesn’t happen often … which is why I want to document it. It’s one of those things that you hear from other parents when their kids are older that they...
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I need to sit in a cafe on a regular basis.
When are you supposed to do those things that you don’t do very often … if you don’t do them very often? You don’t regret it, you enjoy it, you say you’ll do it, but then … you don’t do it. So what...
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I don’t need to ski, I just need to be outdoors.
What is it that you truly like about something that you do? I’m trying to drill down deeper into how, more exactly, one derives pleasure from events. What do I like about skiing? I mostly like that...
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Meditation. Let’s file that under Strength training.
Meditation is exercise for the mind. Well, that’s what they say anyway, I’m just getting started. I use (and love) the MyFitnessPal app. Put in what you eat, how much you exercise, etc., has loads of...
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The Beginner’s Mind
See a thing from a fresh perspective. So fresh, that it didn’t exist before. We had our single raisin tonight. If you’re familiar with Jon Kabat-Zinn’s class, “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,”...
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You must be a horrible judge of character because I’m a terrible...
Does where you deeply find joy ever change over the years? When it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter when you arrive. Put me on a train and it’s as if I have an IV drip of joy seeping...
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Can you create more time in your day?
“You don’t have time to not do it.” Can you make more time than you already have? I was there with the skeptics. I didn’t believe that I could create more time through spending time. But it worked. Our...
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Galaxy
I found my new favorite ski run. Hmm, I’m not sure I had a favorite before. Maybe I didn’t have one because … I don’t even like most runs. You see, I’m not a very good skier. It’s on the Nevada side of...
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All-Day, Silent, Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
16 people, 7 hours, 2 words and 1 mind I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the best part was that I didn’t expect anything. In other words, I didn’t have any expectations. I was also trying not to have...
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Walk Around the Block as if You’re 80
I just walked around the block with an 80-year old. What do you see if you take a slow walk around the block? I know, I know, I always try to make decisions as if I were 80 and looking back and then...
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The line at the post office is too short.
When you have a good book, the rest of the world just moves too quickly. The lines at the post office are just too short to get much reading in. I had to pick up a package. There was a line almost to...
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Time for Yourself
There are 24 hours in every day. How many are yours? At this moment, there are 4 boys in my house (2 of them are mine), a mother of the other 2, my wife is out, our visitors from Holland went out on...
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