Going Alone

Day five: Today has been a tough day. I just couldn’t square my mind into it. Troublesome thoughts all morning and into the afternoon. ...

Two weeks in at the new place and a big and scary project at work complete. No wonder I slept well last night. But, I’m sure my mind will...

A rough day is a relative thing. Today dawned difficult for me, with a new injury, challenges at work, a toothbrush dropped behind the...

I participated in Democracy yesterday, as both a citizen and a public servant, facilitating both the expression of my will and operation...

As a young man I reacted to the world in nearly thoughtless accord with expectation, attending college (poorly), working hard at my...

Sometime, often really, I miss the mark of the life course I’ve set for myself, including the small and seemingly incidental decisions...

I slept in this morning. The extra rest was nice. Maybe I am a little overwhelmed from the last month of readiness and then the...

Today will be more about settling in than change. The new house is becoming a home, with what little stuff we’ve kept settling into place...

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life...

Circumstance got me last night… My guard was down and I found myself reacting beyond reason to an event which was both predictable and ...

My head is back above water now, and I can see the shore roughly a quarter-mile away. The coast here is another alien place, this time...

It’s raining hard at the beach this morning. That late autumn rain falling hard from enormous clouds rolling in from the sea. The rain ...

Life chapters fade like a gas station passed on a highway…growing smaller in the mirror each time we look back, details fading, ...

A new life requires the death of an old life, and death is hard. It’s 4:18 AM and I’ve a long, unfamiliar commute in darkness ahead of...

My neighbor Harold showed up as I was dropping off the key. This man played a part in many of my Good Life videos over the past year and...

My last Good Life video in Menifee. I don’t think Yumiko and I will ever again live beyond the marine layer. Time is simply too short....

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life...

It’s move day. And I’m doing The Good Life meditation on the run. The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of...

I couldn’t sleep last night. Up, tossing and turning and worrying over things which I may not even be able to recall in a year. I keep...

I invite horror, or at least the imagination of horror, into my life every day. Truly terrible thoughts, which cause my face to squirm...