Going Alone

Yumiko is moving faster than me into her new life. She’s found what she plans to do and who she wishes to be and has decided how she will...

My days have begun to slow on their own. As I’d aged from my twenties through my fifties it seemed life slowly sped up. But now, things...

I’ve begun to stop waiting for retirement. What this means is that I’ve begun enacting my new way of life now, while still enmeshed in my...

Autumn met me at the beach yesterday. A chill evening wind. Empty sands. A forbidding gray look upon the sea. All summer is gone. And for...

Yumiko and I both have begun to mold ourselves into the people we wish to become. It’s a very alien and strange process and feeling;...

I sat on the sand yesterday for three hours straight, only breaking my meditation twice for a refreshing plunge in the sea. The beach was...

Yumiko and I enjoyed an interesting conversation yesterday about what it’s like to be a Japanese woman married to a non-Japanese man,...

As I age, I look back on the preceding decades like the acts in a great play which we are all compelled to perform to a greater or lesser...

Rain now in the morning. I can hear it now out there in the dark. But the rain here is never really in earnest, never genuine or very...

At work now everything seems like it’s coming to an end, which feels premature, as I still have fifteen months. I got a new project to...

Today’s Good Life Meditation was very helpful to me, not only in readying myself for the difficult day ahead, but in laying a firm...

Storm Force 2 at the beach yesterday, which sounds impressive, though it is not: “light breeze”, “small wavelets” or “wind felt on the...

299 days left. I know that the coming paradigm will be little different from the current. Each new life being largely the same as the...

I added a new objective yesterday to The Good Life creed. The objective of Balance is number eight, and will speak to the management of...

The ocean has grown cold. Very cold. Cold like winter. It burns my head when I first get in. And it’s painful and a struggle to swim...

I have a new companion—of sorts. He’s a man maybe five years older than me. He looks Persian, very handsome and distinguished, like a...

In today’s video I talk more about work than I probably should. This is me trying to figure out how to do well in a difficult situation...

It dawned on me yesterday. This time next year I won’t be here. And I’ll be alone again. And I won’t have any home. And nearly all my...

After my evening swim yesterday, I sat alone on the beach watching the day fade while a warm wind blew in from the sea. A man older than...

Being always ready to die. It’s interesting how much impact this first objective has had on my life. To begin each morning with a careful...