Blog

Therapeutic Values That May Enhance Life Part 3 Mind over matter. This is an adage I would hear on occasion when working with the English when I was stationed on a remote island. What a thing to say. Mind over matter? Does this simply imply that whatever material...

Therapeutic Values that may enhance life (Part 2) Finding the meaning in difficult times can be distinguishing. It can lift us out of despair and even help invigorate us to keep climbing towards our goals or endeavor further through life. What can we do once meaning...

Therapeutic Values that may enhance life (Part 1: Creativity) One day, maybe tomorrow or in 25 years you may end up in a difficult situation. Its statistically going to happen in some way, shape, or form. Loved ones will leave us, Jobs will be lost, something dreadful...

It feels like I am in a long hallway, the exit stretching ever forward, evading me. It is dark, damp and uncomfortable. I continue to persist forward in this ever-expanding dark rectangle. When will I reach this dim light at the end of the hallway, a vague promise of...

What is the practice of recreation? Its properties can be abstract, unique, individualistic, or communal. Something that brings human beings together or fuels the isolated nature of an old soul. A solace, sometimes even an escape from the ordinary stipulations of...

'Greeted by darkness, its encompassing presence perturbates me. Its 5:10 am and there is already a whirlwind of regrets. Should I be sleeping in? Maybe I’ll snooze another ten minutes? There is always next week. No there may not be. No days are guaranteed, my...

Warm greetings, hospitality and empathy… Towards the end of February? Exquisite meals, lengthy connecting conversations and gifts, like it was nativity season. A consecutive arrangement of amazing individuals spread over a week, what an outstanding coincidence. What...

It’s never an easy feat when partaking in an activity that requires numerous variables to go right in order to participate. For my circumstance it requires a liberated schedule, a two-hour drive, and mother nature’s gracious gratuity. I had recently acquired an 8-foot...

What could we name the mutual sharing of an experience purely for the moment that is? Being? How can we even describe it? Would I be bold to even suggest the basic moniker “life” is happening here? Skaters seeking a medium to aid in their downward descent and the...

I often find myself in deep thought or rather numerous thoughts flooding and clouding my mind. This influx of thoughts usually deters whatever I was planning on doing and there is this period of downloading or adjusting where I can slowly diffuse the thoughts and...

I’ve had an on again off again relationship with recreation which likely translates to having an on again off again relationship with myself. Over the years I’ve found activities, pursued them, became obsessed and just like the flame that consumed me, it became dim...