welcome to my words

My blog is an imperfect interaction with myself and others. It’s a place that allows me to engage in life as deeply as needed, which can be difficult to do otherwise. Expect to find words about people, travels and troubles, stories that take you high and stories that take you deep. Stories that make you laugh, cry, and think. Expect books, wellness, and life in the edge. Expect to find value in day-to-day stuff. My blog is meant for those who dare to breathe in life, the present, the divine. Beneath and beyond that, what you discover is up to you.

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My Latest Blog Posts

My Body. My Being. Beautiful. Holy. Worthy of Honor.

Physical Wellnesseverything needed for a healthy body—nutrition, exercise, sleep, and appropriate health care. As I continue to speak about wellness this year, I want to shift my focus to physical health by emphasizing a foundational concept. We are worthy of honoring our bodies. And “honoring” does NOT mean signing up for complicated stressful expensive diets and…

Bike Week and the Sounds of Environmental Wellness

Environmental Wellness:to be safe and feel safe in a clean, peaceful, empowering home and community that encourage individual and collaborative growth.   My neighbor is a Harley guy with biker friends. I met these guys seven years ago during Bike Week 2016, the week I moved into my home. They and their wives invited me over for…

4 Things I Learned about Emotional Wellness

Emotional Wellness: the ability to express feelings, adjust to emotional challenges, cope with life’s stressors, and enjoy life October 2016. The air in my pool filter cylinder pressurized and blasted its lid into my face like a NASA rocket. When turning on the pump, I had not opened a little valve that allows pressure from within to…

Can I Love?

This colorful poem showed up in my head and heart a few weeks ago, and so I thought I’d share it with you to kick off Valentine’s. It’s not mushy romantic. Just a short voyage through an inner world that decided to birth into the outer world. I hope it births some love in you…

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