Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
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Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
I’ve been contemplating a lot recently why I stopped writing. It made me feel better, it helped me express myself, and here I am typing away trying to *think* the way I used to back then … when? So this is the beginning of a beautiful journey. So much has happened, so much is going …
Seems like these days, good days are hard to come by. Waking up in a different world each day it’s hard not to lose perspective on life. No matter how hard it may seem, this year, this life, this moment, the holidays always make up for it. This wonderful, treacherous year is coming to an …
Isn’t it amazing when you’re down, depressed and feel like the only person you really want to be around is yourself but really you want the attention. You crave it. Having someone there to listen to your rants and complaints. Having someone there to just plain stare at you while you “get it all out”. …
Never explain yourself to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn’t need it, and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it.
I have not written for a very long time. Probably because of all the new and exciting things that have been happening in my life since the beginning of this year. Or maybe not? Was it a way for me to just shut the whole world out and focus on myself for once? Problem is, …
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 2000, I logged 34,000 miles during my travels across America to meet my readers. During a three-year stretch earlier in my life, I was a homeless gypsy, sponging off friends and staying in hostels from Vermont to South Carolina, from Italy to Greece. But in recent years I’ve gone on …
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Last May, workers cleaning up garbage on Britain’s highest mountain made a startling find. There at the top of Mt. Ben Nevis was a piano. How did it get there? Three years earlier, hikers in Indiana’s Yellowwood State Forest stumbled upon an equally inexplicable anomaly: a massive boulder lodged in the …
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don’t need any special climbing skills to reach the top of Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. It’s the highest walkable mountain in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy conquest. You’ve got to be in good physical shape. To avoid altitude sickness, you must ascend gradually enough to acclimatize yourself to …
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Why just ask the donkey in me to speak to the donkey in you when I have so many other beautiful animals and brilliant colored birds inside that are all longing to say something wonderful and exciting to your heart?” That’s the question Daniel Ladinsky asks in his translation of a …