Tag: spiral trail

Doing the thing is hard. Your nervous system starts screaming every time you head towards the unknown, the new, the creative, the wondrous. Or it distracts you, comes up with 10 million excuses, demands clarity or certainty you can’t provide. But you know that doing the thing is what stands between you and everything you…

There’s a reason why the land of the dead so often has an escort in mythology. Anubis, the Valkyries, the Grim Reaper – all appear at the moment of the death of one life to walk with you through the gateway into the next. They are called psychopomps. These are keepers of the threshold, the…

I had promised my son a fish for his 6th birthday. He had been saving money to help cover the cost for months, and was bouncing next to me on his tip toes with excitement. But as I looked at the cart – packed full of random oddments I had never imagined a fish needed…

It’s not the same as sadness. You can let go of desire for the thing you lost, and sadness goes away. But grief is a gift that keeps on giving. Grief is love – something essential to our life force, something pure and good and true – that has nowhere to go. It’s a hole…

There’s no happily ever after. Mainly because there’s no ever after. The story just keeps going. There are happily’s and unhappily’s, and they just rotate. Loving someone, deeply, truly, doesn’t make the happiness stay. Happiness, and indeed having anything we want, doesn’t work that way. That’s why we talk about love with detachment. Loving the…