“The path, traveler, is made in the walking.”
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Weeds and What Matters
My front yard is covered with beautiful, invasive hawkweed. I spent an hour playing in the dirt today, digging them and their wild-runner roots out. They’re all mixed in with the clover, which the bees love, and the grass, which can hardly be seen. Our lives are like our yards – full of random things…
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Timeless Truths and Turtles All the Way Down
In ancient times, people walked across the earth, and wondered what was beneath them. What could be so vast? What is beyond the vast horizon? One answer was it’s all on the back of a giant turtle. And what, you may ask, is that turtle standing on? Well it’s turtles, all the way down! All…
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Anti-Ambition: My Why
Someone asked about “my why.” Not just why am I trying to write, although I am. But why am I doing this, working so hard, why do I care, why do I bother. He says his “why” is freedom and thinking clearly. Which I’m sure are important steps in the process. But at bottom, I…
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I Would Rather Be A Bog Witch
Tears blurred out the cheerful woman on the webinar. My heart pounded alarmingly, and it felt like I had swallowed a hot coal. This was looking like another failure. I had just spent more than $2k that I didn’t have, on this class that promised a “proven path to meaningful, creative, work from home.” By…
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How to Walk Through the Unknown
The truth is that we want answers. We want clarity. We want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that things will work out. And life does not provide that. The universe has a much higher tolerance for ambiguity than we do. So where does that leave us? We still have to walk the…