13: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – Safety

Feelings are data, not directives.

57: My Favorite Ex-Wife

Let’s talk about my ex-wife.

56: Things I Carry – Tending My Secret Garden

A man cannot live one life fully split between two moments, two gardens. Inevitably they both will be overtaken with weeds. As I continue to tend my garden I recognize we reap what we sow. There are still weeds in my garden. There will always be weeds and they are my weeds.

I planted these. I will tend to them.

54: Lessons from a Black Friday

Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.

09: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – Friends

Who are your friends?

46: The Silent Treatment

This is my pattern. I am committed to breaking the pattern.

Thoughts on Pema Chödrön’s Non-Aggression and the 4 Maras

We are what we embrace. If we embrace the problem than we are the problem. If we embrace the solution we are the solution. If I embrace shame do I not become my shame?

06: A Love Letter to the Betrayers – Suicide

Pain isn’t the enemy. Suicide isn’t the answer.

43: Do I Love You?

The Good Doctor asked me today if I still love you?

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