Healing from pain: the mind-body connection
I sit down under the rock arch at the end of my hike and remove my shoes, placing them near my groin, under my ankles as padding while I sit on the downward sloping...
Saturday, November 11, 2017
deconverter.com: stories of changing beliefs
I'm happy to announce the start of a new project that I've had in mind for some time. deconverter.com is a platform for people to share stories about leaving behind their previous belief systems. The...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Cause and effects
Sometimes a cause has multiple effects which are not obviously related to each other, yet one effect can be used to predict another. For example, in town I tell my friends "I am going...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Good and evil, eternity and NOW
Are people good or evil? No! We associate good and evil with certain qualities we have assigned to other words. Generosity; kindness; provision; pleasure; safety; health; growth; strength. Destruction; violence; negation; death; neglect; pain;...
Friday, May 5, 2017
Appetite vs. hunger
I enjoy experiencing extremes so that I better understand the spectrum of what's possible and what my options are. For example, one time I hiked alone for 6 weeks and I realized how much...
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Be the pixel you wish to see
Many people have ideas about how society should be, but they don't always consider their own lives to be part of the equation. Let's imagine that generally, most people wish that everyone in their...
Friday, February 10, 2017
Love by itself
So often for me, the experience of love has been tied to other people and other emotions. I feel love when I think of a person I feel affectionately toward, and maybe it's connected...
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Reflections on the PCT
Every 10 weeks or so I have the opportunity to submit a guest column to the Moab Sun. Here's my submission this time around. I quit my job in April 2014 to hike from...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Life is music
I was thinking about life and the passing of time as I drove south to Quartzsite. There's a song that has a sample of Alan Watts speaking. This is what he says: ...we’ve simply...
