Late last week, a friend of mine forwarded over a link with the note, “This podcast is for you.” The guy being interviewed on the podcast was Boyd Varty, a South African restoration practitioner and wildlife tracker. He was explaining how he was creating a life he loved, one adventure and one discovery at a time. […]
Nothing. Nope. Nada. Zip.
Easter Sunday is a day of brightly colored eggs and fake grass and a lot of ham. I also ate the biggest sweet potato I’ve ever seen and I’m not even sorry. The other thing I did on Sunday was sit outside and watch my cat chase bugs and lizards and even catch a small […]
Unraveling
Yesterday I watched a documentary called The Heretic about Rob Bell (the Christian pastor and author of the book Love Wins). At one point in the documentary, Theologian Peter Rollins says, “Interestingly, the word unraveling is the same as the wordraveling. To ravel means to pull apart. It just doesn’t have the negative ‘un’ bit […]
Stop what you are becoming
This poem terrifies me for how the truth of it strikes me right in the heart. What if life is asking you to pause and stop what you are becoming? Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves […]
Calling the courageous!
I feel like I need to apologize to all of my former business clients. They were hiring a consultant and what they got was something a bit…different…something that required them to be a bit more courageous than perhaps they were bargaining for. I learned this over the years as my clients started calling me their […]
All the feels
I adore words (and having written four books and counting, I have a lot of them) and all the feels they give me. And because words have power, I’m always looking for a word or even a phrase that says the exact right thing. I’ve also seek out words and phrases from other countries and cultures. Here are […]