October 2019

There are a couple of competing forces in my life, in my approach to life. One side being very open and creative and wild and free, and the other side being very orderly, controlled, methodical. And for most of my life I was heavily on the open creative side with almost no discipline, which left […]

Today, as part of an interfaith visiting group, I visited and attended a synagogue, a Jewish Shabbat service, for the first time. And I was amazed at the strength of the tradition, and it made me realize this is a very powerful thing that is really missing for a lot of us. And it’s one

So it seems like something that repeats every day, forever, is this necessity to bend things back to basics. We’re always being distracted. We’re always being led around, led away from our core principles, our basics, our foundation in life. There are so many influences that pull us in so many directions, and it’s a

It sometimes seems like the progress that we put in, the work, the input, can be steady, steady like a ramp, increasing intensity. So we do our repetitions, we put in the daily work, and, of course, nothing in life is completely steady and smooth, nothing is a straight line, but we can really be

So this afternoon I picked up a certain sense of dissatisfaction. I started to feel frustrated that I wasn’t getting what I wanted. Things aren’t moving fast enough. I started to feel like a lot of my efforts are in vain, that time is passing by too quickly with nothing to show. And I had

When I think about this idea of what it means to be alive, what it means to- this quest to have a meaningful life, it seems like one of the big parts of that is the idea of feeling alive. The idea that, before my life ends, I would like to have a strong feeling

So it’s another cliche to add to the list that nothing in life can remain in a steady state. There’s always a progress, a movement, a growth. One way it’s put is that everything is either growing or dying. There is no steady state. Though what we see as the steady state is what it

Resting is one of those things that’s so easily overlooked. It’s so easy to see resting as taking time off, taking a break. Which it is. But for people who are struggling to have discipline in life and struggling to control themselves and apply their energies to good work, we are so used to taking

In everyday life, it’s completely normal and understandable to be very focused on the details. Like the old cliche, one step at a time, you’re paying attention to that one step. You’re looking at what is- or to use another cliche, what’s on your plate. Deal with what’s on your plate. Eat what’s on your

Well hello there. This hat is not my usual headwear, and it has nothing to do with this video, but I was at the Toronto Argonauts Canadian football game tonight, where it was country day, and we all got this hat. And I could make a video about how it’s fun to make- it’s fun