On the roads in India they say you need three things, “good brakes, good horn and good luck”. Hurtling along narrow mountain passes as we wound our way up into the Himalayas, I found out first hand, this couldn’t be closer to the truth. Busses, taxis and the occasional horse…
Let me explain what I mean by that cryptic phrase. You have been told and I have been told that just being is not enough. Happiness, we assume – especially the Western mind – must be being “plus” something else. Objects, prizes, trophies. The right job, career, car, home, lover…mindset,…
That’s the dream, isn’t it? Free money. Watching your bank account tick upwards, making thousands of dollars every single day with no work. That’s why we enter the lottery. It’s why we gamble. It’s why we’re all secretly hoping a long-lost relative will leave us a small fortune. That dream,…
One day, about six weeks ago, as I was doing the digging for dollars research, I remembered that box of papers in the basement. I had dragged that thing from Southern California, to Santa Cruz to Asheville, having never having looked at it since.But I kept it, it was all…
You live in the most open and flexible time in human history. The external constraints that have held people back from pursuing their dreams have been loosened. Of course, there will always be contextual constraints. None of these things are root causes. They are organic and unintended consequences. These things…
Talk to my God like He’s remote, unloving or ominous. He is not the god of dimly-lit shrines, forbidding intermediaries or blood oaths taken at midnight. He is closer than my skin, more in love with me than I can be with myself and more open than the sky. Compare…
The kind of mulligan I’m referring to doesn’t involve a small dimpled ball, but it does equate to a definite sense of something shifting toward second chances, or simply, a do-over. Like taking a mulligan when your original aim sends your ball bouncing and skidding off the cart path into…