9-Days Questioning My Persistent Stressful Thoughts

  I just returned from the Byron Katie 9-day School for the Work. I’m not going to give The School away. It’s far more precious that you meet it directly yourself … and in that school you truly meet your Self more convincingly than in any other experience I’ve ever had. I know that may

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"Experiencing the burn … HIIH takes on Burning Man"

What can be said about Burning Man? I’m not near enough the writer or poet … I’m but a brown hair protruding from a freckle on the belly of the black fly resting momentarily on the spectacles of the capable man who could even approach a satisfying description of the magic and wonder that is

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“Here II Here goes to Prison”

  “Man, during your concert … I wasn’t in prison.” —- Spoken by an inmate at Terminal Island Prison after Here II Here’s acoustic performance As we approached Terminal Island, I was oddly nervous. I normally get a bit nervous before most performances – concerned how many people would show up, will the sound system

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“3 Cups of Tea” … and Managing Your OWN Magic

  Have you read this book? Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. Riveting. I cried before I got even halfway through … and my most recent former girlfriend will insist I never cry. A true story about Greg, who, near death, takes the “wrong” path descending a Himalayan mountain; a “wrong” turn that changes

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"The Tour, loneliness, and leaving partners behind"

When people hear that we’re on a 6-month (or more) tour, between exasperated breaths they often ask, “Do any of you have families back home?” Each of us is coming to this experience in different circumstances. Edwin left his amazing new wife, Lisbeth, back in Miami. She came with us last year on our 2-month

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"What are we doing this far north?" – Act 1 of 2 – Kelowna, BC

We crested the mountain highway pass, heading deeper into British Columbia wilderness, and found ourselves driving right into a blizzard. We had just left a fine, crisp Vancouver late-April morning; where did this blizzard come from? Day 101. We were going to Kelowna, BC, the apex of our 6 month West Coast tour begun in

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Are we making history?? Or simply being swallowed up by it??

You think you control your car when you drive?? Wrong. I was in a car in Egypt years ago when the steering wheel literally separated from the front wheel axle, sending us crashing at 60 mph into the steel median beam. That steering wheel spun like a top. We don’t control anything … we only

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