After the suicide of her grandfather, our writer remembers her previous attempts at suicide, and how she came to a place where she can and does talk about it, despite the shame she feels.
The Monsters Among Us
In a world so rich with enlightenment, science and wealth — how can people behave like monsters? And how do the rest of us put up with it?
Tarmac Meditations #18 — Sigh
June 13, 2010 Sat down fixin’ to work this morning. Things to write. Put Billy Joe Shaver on the box and got after it. Pretty soon I’m leanin’ back in my chair, feet up on the desk, eyes closed. Ain’t no words comin’ from me. Billy Joe seems to have them all. Oh hell, it’s […]
Tarmac Meditations #17 — Lace Up
A runner tries to find the energy and motivation for an early morning run.
Tarmac Meditations #16 — Sunday Morning
A runner who who craves a lazy Sunday morning finds the world if full of reasons to get out of bed. And some of them of good ones.
The Other Side of Me: The Turtle
In my 30s, I had body position I called the Turtle. I would wake up in the morning with my shoulders pulled up around my ears and my head and neck sucked back into my spine. Just like a turtle going into its shell.
A Personal Journey Part 2: My Past Life Regression
In Part 2 of A Personal Journey, Gil Namur encounters more of his possible past lives, as a poetic wanderer in a Mediterranean setting and an orphaned girl in France.
Good Time Charlie
I am looking for rocks of cocaine. I’m broke and getting broker, and all I want to do is get high. There is Jack telling me some fairy tale and watching me do this, just like two regular guys on a Saturday afternoon, just folks, sittin’ on the stoop, looking out at the neighborhood, talking football or jazz.
A Personal Journey Part 1: My Past Life Regression
Have you ever had the feeling you lived before in a past life? Gil Namur decided to explore. What he discovered under hypnosis was profound and riddled with synchronicity.
Savasana Mouse
Nathan Thompson shares an incident during a yoga class that perfectly illustrates just how much the mind the mind likes to make up stories — the bigger the better — to explain what we don’t understand.
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