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I almost broke my streak of writing daily today, but I have an hour left before the bell tolls. I had a rough 24 hours getting back home to Virginia. Planes were delayed, and I got back home early this morning, and had to hit the ground running as soon as I got some sleep. But now, things are calmer and I’m sufficiently rested to reflect on what I want to express. The last day or so has really brought home the realization that we are mere passengers in life, and not in the driver’s seat as much as we think we are. This realizationRead More →

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Writing daily allows me a framework to categorize what is the most meaningful moment I’ve experienced in the last 24 hours. Some days, I have to dig deep to find the moment, or series of moments. Because of that, I am finding that I’m making different decisions daily than I used to so that I have an opportunity to find more meaning in my life. For me, writing daily and clicking Publish gives me a routine to be accountable to myself to notice my life, share what I learn and hopefully after a year, I’ll have enough daily material to creatively find a way toRead More →

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It’s funny how the things we have a lifelong aversion to, return to us as our teacher. This morning, I set out for my 2 mile walk along an Arkansas county highway that is near my late mother’s and stepfather’s home. As I was mid-way into my walk, the early morning humid air carried the scent of ripening muscadines. A muscadine is a wild grape that grows around here, and as a child, I was repulsed by the smell. My mother used to make muscadine jelly, and my job was to go out and pick them before the snakes and birds got them. The smellRead More →

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Yesterday, we stopped by the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve on our way to Amarillo, Texas on the first leg of our trip back home. The dunes are massive. They are a living geometry of wind, gravity and time. I felt like I was standing in a sine wave, watching the slowed down effects of how we experience our lives in a purely physical way. With any sine wave, you have peaks and valleys, and the experiences we have in our lives if you were to look at it like a sine wave mirror what I saw out there in the desert. TheRead More →

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I’ve had a wonderful week in Colorado, and I’m sad to put it in my rear-view mirror, but it’s time to get back to my life in Virginia. The perspective that different landscapes offer me emotionally is why I travel, and I feel more at home with myself now that I’ve had my fix of big, open country where wild is out your backdoor. I found out more about my own need for being outdoors and near water, and fly fishing will be happening in my near future. Virginia has some great trout fishing waters, and I intend to begin exploring them as soon asRead More →