“Be impeccable with your word.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ Five words. The first agreement. Sounds simple. It’s not. Every word is a seed. It lands somewhere — in someone else, in yourself. Say something true, something kind — it grows into that. Say something careless — that grows too. How many times do we say…
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ The Dude has a hammock. It’s not fancy. It’s just where he goes when he needs to feed his head instead of empty it. A book somebody mentioned. A film he finally got around to….
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”~Mark Twain~ Everyone’s got an opinion about Monday. Dragging feet. Heavy sighs. The whole world acting like the alarm clock is the enemy. The Dude sees it different. Monday isn’t a punishment. It’s a starting line. And there’s something electric about a starting line if you let yourself…
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”~Jon Kabat-Zinn~ A hummingbird beats its wings 80 times per second. Eighty times. Per second. If your attention is somewhere else — and let’s be honest, it usually is — that thing was here and gone before you even looked up. A flash of green…
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”~Leo Tolstoy~ The river doesn’t rush. It doesn’t check its phone. It doesn’t wonder if it’s moving fast enough or doing enough or being enough. It just moves. Steady. In the direction it chose. The Dude thinks about this a lot. We were not built to be…