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Want To Get Away?

I guess I always knew I wanted to do it.  Those days I was cooped up between the three cubicle walls, looking nervously at the clock, not sure of something. I felt it again when I would break away from the AC’d environment, and inhale a mountain of the Florida sun washed air.  73 degrees, outside, [...]

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Why Don’t You Rebel? Part 2

You've heard the voice, when you've wanted to change poor habits of health, some injustice in the world, some religious tradition you've never really critically examined, or that job you're barely tolerating. It's the voice that whispers to you that people will think you're strange, and may even laugh at you if you dare try to go against what everyone else is doing.

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10 Books That May Change Your Life

Here’s a list of 10 Books that have shaped my thinking. This list, by no means, is my top 10, nor is it necessarily listed in order of importance(Except for the 1st one).  The only real danger here is in placing yourself between the white and black pages of ideas that force one to confront [...]

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The Conspiracy Against Silence

Silence can be like a clean white page, before the blur of words.  Or like the darkness.  It really isn’t a thing, but the absence of something.  For darkness, that thing is light.  For silence, it is noise.  The echoes of sound tightly trapped inside the walls of your mind.  The ones you can’t seem [...]

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The Silent Killer

I tried to focus on the words below the multicolored display chart of male and female internal organs.  The nurse was strapping my let arm into a blood pressure cuff, and in minutes my fate would be pronounced.  If it was anything like the last two blood pressure readings I knew the diagnosis would come [...]

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8 Bloggers or Twitterers You Should Follow – #FF

These are 8 blogs that reveal a flair for the creative and unconventional ways of living your life.  Each, in varying respects, have helped me in my search for greater meaning in life and even in my spiritual development.  Some have inspired a more intentional approach to life, while others have also gone deeper, by [...]

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Sharpening My Focus – Part 2

Recently I shared some of the things in my life that were making it hard for me to focus on my goals. I decided that everything that wasn’t absolutely needed for the completion of what I truly wanted to achieve had to go. Here’s what that has meant for me: I’ve learned that making huge financial commitments [...]

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Sharpening My Focus – Part 1

With the new year around the corner, and the continued reality of an economic pinch. It seems as good a time as any to take stock of my new found interest the minimalist lifestyle, or more commonly stated, the simple life. For the past year or two I’ve tried, from time to time, to post [...]

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My 10 Favorite TED Talks

According to Wikipedia, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is: An academic organization owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation.[1] TED is well-known for its annual, invitation-only conference devoted to “ideas worth spreading.”[2] TED is famous for its lectures, known as TED Talks, which originally focused on technology, entertainment and design, but have now expanded in [...]

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Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat

“These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.” If you started hearing a familiar star trek theme song after reading that quote,  or had a Deanna Troi, or Uhura flash back(the fellas will know what I’m talking about) you may have been a pseudo Trekkie like me growing up(No I didn’t go to any of [...]

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