The World Needs Fools
I believe in dreaming, in magic, in a small (yet greater) purpose, in stories, in a universal connectedness amongst us all.
I believe in dreaming, in magic, in a small (yet greater) purpose, in stories, in a universal connectedness amongst us all.
Your greatest opportunities for growth lie in your strengths, not in your weaknesses. Unfortunately most people, including myself, have been raised on the opposite belief. Most of us believe we must work on closing the gap of weakness, becoming more proficient where we lack to find success in our chosen field.
We tend to fight our impulses. Neither Susan nor I have felt particularly drawn to, or satisfied, living in one place. We each have lived in multiple locations over our four-plus decades on this planet, coincidentally both living in Massachusetts as children, then moving to Northern California for middle and high school, moving again to…
Wisdom is a personal understanding of knowledge that is then applied.
In The Art of Stillness, Adventures in Going Nowhere, author Pico Iyer writes of his personal exploration into finding stillness in a world that seems to move exponentially faster with each day.
What if we approached all aspects of our lives as we do our physical and endurance training?
Vitality is being alive even after a hard’s day work, or a big week of training.
You must meet the outer world with your inner world or existence will crush you.
Susan and I recently embarked on our first bikepacking adventure. I’ve ridden a mountain bike for decades, and camped for longer than that, but I’ve yet to combine the two for a humble adventure in the growing dirty activity of bikepacking. Since we didn’t know what we were doing, we made due with the equipment…