October 2019

[…] I couldn’t possibly believe that this was really happening. It didn’t seem real. And I hesitated, took too long, and went into this sort of passive observer state. Instead of somehow putting down my phone and reaching for the ball, I just sort of stunned as this ball came closer, and it hit on […]

So one of those big words that looms so large over the modern world is anxiety. It’s this strange, nebulous, unclear, fuzzy thing that doesn’t have any exact form, that sort of hangs like a cloud over our minds. It’s a sense of discomfort, unease, apprehension, fear, but without a clear cause, without a clear

So my goal here with this project is really to build a community. These recordings, these vlogs, are just here to get things started, and to help me develop my ideas, but my main goal is not about me sharing my ideas. It is about building a community. So why? Why have a community for

You know, so much about what I’m trying to do here comes down to the complexities of being simple. The goal of a meaningful life, having a meaningful life myself, helping others to work together towards this goal: it really is a very simple thing, I believe. I don’t believe we need to do anything

So this is Halloween night, the Saturday night before Halloween, and if you can see this costume, I have a hat, an old-time hat, actually my grandfather’s hat, and my grandfather’s tie, and I’m holding a little magnifying glass, which together will tell you that I am a detective. So this is my go-to Halloween

Of all the disciplines, all the improvements and adjustments we can make for ourselves, one of the simplest is breathing. Breathing is the simplest action in life, the most basic action in life. Breathing is a fundamental discipline in so many ways. Breathing is in the middle between active and automatic activities. So we can

You know, when we’re first getting started in making changes in our lives to find ways to live better, there’s a whole world of carrots and sticks that we can hold up to encourage us to make the change. Because that’s the biggest and hardest point of the change, is the very beginning. How do

Clearly a big part of simplifying and of bringing things down to basics, and in making our lives about something that is meaningful, is this idea of focus. What does it mean to be focused? To remove things from our attention, so that we only have a very select selection of things that are on

How easy is it for life to fall into a regular routine, this feeling of a grind, normalcy, a repeating pattern? And, well, there’s many advantages to that. We can have a lot of efficiency with having routines. We can get a lot of good healthy habits rolling, have that sense of order, and get

My thought for today is something that I’m really a beginner in, and it’s just a brief mention of a whole world of a topic. And it’s the idea of awareness, consciousness, the senses, and how do we organize them, how do we see them, how do we see ourselves? How do we perceive our