Ten years ago, my friend Jake and I were doing some arnis (stick fighting) drills for a photo shoot for his self defense school and he accidentally hit me in the face, splitting my eye open. The moment I saw the blood pouring into my […]
Read MoreIn David Abram’s book ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’ he shares a theory as to how the evolution from symbolic to phonetic language was instrumental in disassociating humans from their embodied sensuous connection to each other and the earth. I have read also that the […]
Read MoreMy wife and I share an ‘Explorer’ personality style which is commonly rooted in a childhood fear of missing out. This expresses itself in novelty-seeking and a nearly unquenchable desire for diversity of experience. An unhealthy version of this is a constant shifting of attention […]
Read More“DAAAAAD! DAAA DAAA! DAAAAAAADD!”, he screamed at the top of his lungs. It was 5:45am. He was half asleep and still in our bed with his mother and I had just gotten up to begin my day. For the past two hours he’d been waking […]
Read MoreWhen my son was about a year old, I once covered his ears while a firetruck was driving by us with it’s sirens blaring. Since shortly after this he has taken to covering his own ears whenever he hears a siren. Most often, at first […]
Read MoreWhen I was younger and travelling, I sometimes carried a knife. I carried it for defence in case I met violence. After a while I stopped carrying it though. I had gotten a sense that by pro-actively protecting myself against potential violence, I was also […]
Read MoreRecently at the playground, an older boy grabbed the ball from my son’s hands and threw it over the wall. The moment it happened, I felt a slight tension around my solar plexus and a memory from the schoolyard in my youth flashed across my […]
Read MoreFive years ago I was in Spain with my girlfriend. We were doing a juice fast at a health resort. I took my lady for a walk one evening to see the orange groves and on the way back, we caught the sun setting through […]
Read MoreThroughout my late twenties and into my thirties, I had said often to myself and others, “I’m the happiest guy I know”. It always just occurred to me to be the case, as I was generally quite happy with everything in life; work, family, relationships, […]
Read MoreRecently, my wife and I got into an argument. It happened in seconds, like a flash fire in a pan. Seemingly out of nowhere we were shouting at each other about something inane. And then, just as quickly as it had come, it ended. Somehow […]
Read MoreOur evolution is accelerating. Technology, medicine, climate, economics, politics and religion – all changing rapidly and causing disruption. While in ways the world is coming together, an underbelly of fear is also driving greater separation. Questions on the minds of many leaders are: How do […]
Read MoreThere is a man who lives in a van that frequents a cafe I visit once or twice a day. I go there to break up the energy of being in my studio. Mostly I drink decaf lattes. They tell me I’m the only one […]
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