“Everyone thinks they know the truth behind Christmas, but they don’t know the half of it; if they did, they’d never look at Christmas the same,” said a deep voice rumbling from the depths of a bulbous silhouette. That was how I ended up under an overpass at midnight huddled in the freezing cold.
Archives for 2013
Dog Simple
Dogs are both wonderfully simple creatures and yet very capable of learning very complex behaviours and concepts. But do we sometimes expect more of them than we should? They don’t think like humans even though the seem to understand us very well. Sometimes it’s best to break things down for them and keep it “Dog Simple.”
Moving Beyond Being a People Pleaser
As I noticed a bit of guilt arising over saying no the first time, I realized that if I chose to help out it would only be to release that guilt and “look good” in the eyes of my former colleagues. It had nothing to do with genuinely wanting to offer my energy to the work at hand.
Life’s a Dish of Pasta
Sometimes running away from a miserable situation can make things worse. Other times it can lead to happy revelations. Is it your choice, or is it fate?
To Leave In Peace
The true story of how the author overcame her own fears to help a friend find peace for her ailing mother. In the process, she received her own message from the past and found her own form of elusive peace.
Tarmac Meditations #137: The Carnival is in Town
The elephants know that memory is a two edged sword. Memory is indifferent to itself and its use, on account of the past is always past; Even when it is never really past (Bill Faulkner said that last, I think).
Fire In The Valley
The dichotomy of fire and ice was not lost on us and to this day this remains a picture that takes on a metaphorical presence of sorts, one that expresses a fiery passion for our craft tempered against a cold and relentless landscape.
Words and Pictures
Whenever adults described me as a child they always inserted a modifier: they said I was terribly shy or horribly shy or, the most painful of all, painfully shy. But even as a shy kid I was never bored or without friends. That’s because I surrounded myself with words and pictures.
Sometimes, It’s Better to Just Say No
“Aren’t you that guy who goes to that Buddhist place?” I said I was and she looked at me, paused, and then said “I always found it funny that people would worship a guy who isn’t a God.” I smiled because it probably is funny from the outside, what we Buddhists are doing.
THE OWL and the PUSSYCAT
SOME THINGS you can’t make happen, no matter how hard you try. For years I struggled to get a pop-up version of THE OWL and the PUSSYCAT published, but I could never overcome the fixed belief that the poem wasn’t well enough known in North America. I still find it strange, this idea that people […]
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