Needs, Wants, Desires

A simple concept to take you into your lovely weekend: let’s talk about the core elements of what go into your relationship with what you love. Much like before, I’m not talking about a person (unless I am, as you read this) or a vocation (unless it applies) or anything except that which…

Philosophy of Life

One of the reasons I love plane travel is because there’s about fifteen minutes to half an hour between takeoff and reaching 10,000 feet when they won’t let me be productive.

My tray table has to be up; my phone has to be off; I can’t have my laptop open. I can (and…

Love the Blank Out of It

I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful…

A Method of Practice

“Don’t f*ck with the scientific method!” she growled from the back seat as we drove. We were on one of many jaunts to various friends and locations in Maui, I don’t quite remember which, but I had made a joke about using the scientific method — but using it wrong. The change in her tone was…

What’s the Point?

Why do you practice?

Whatever it is, from the alto recorder to tantric meditation to flossing your teeth, why do you do it?

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Good Practice, Meh Practice

So, all in all, I figure another question could be drawn from this: ‘how do I put my passion to work for me, and how do I turn my work into a part of my passion?’- Joe Tolstoy, in the comments

There’s a Vole in My Heart…

Sometimes love — the romantic, squishy kind of love — can be pretty frustrating. I’m not even talking aobut the vagaries of trying to deal with another person on an emotional level. I mean the very basis of love, the “Oh, my, I’m having these feelings for that person? Well…

Two Points of Love

“Want to know how to highlight the misery of your life every day, right in front of your face?” my friend proclaimed as we drove to SEATAC airport. “Decide to write and teach about it!”

She has a point. She and I have both had some rocky patches in les affaires d’amour…

Practice’s Reward

It’s a busy time. I’m a travelin’ man for the next couple of months, pretty much a different city and often a different continent or country every week. It’s already been wearing on me — and it’s not going to get any better. In fact, there was a moment, deep in the night of sleeplessness and…

Hard to Tell

I’ve been trying to tell myself a story.

See, I just had this trip. It was a long trip, getting the rest of my stuff and a lot of a friend’s stuff out here to Seattle. I had hoped this would be a fun trip…but it wasn’t. For various reasons, the truck was in my friend’s name, and…

Do What You Love or the Money Will Haunt You

Apologies for the late post today — my day started at 5:00am when the alarm went off for my first Official Snorkeling Trip, and it’s now twelve hours later, I’m sunburned worse than a lobster, but I’m getting this done before midnight EST, and that…

The Perils of a Perfect Life

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future’s sakes.