Blogs about your Spirit
Midlife: Moving from Somebody to Nobody
November 26, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit
Midlife men, I’d mentioned awhile back that I had been reading a book on growing older. It contains relatively short chapters on topics such as regret, fear, joy, relationships, and such, over 30 different topics. A chapter on ‘meaning’ touched a nerve recently. It seemed particularly relevant to me and captures what I think is a key question to be answered by the Western…
Changing One’s Course in Midlife
September 03, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Lifestyle, Relationships
I find that as a midlife man, I value autonomy more and more. I chose the word autonomy over a word that at first seems quite similar - independence. I felt that in some sense there was a real difference between the two, one that I wanted to use. As part of my pre-writing reading, I Google these two words to see if any meaningful differences had been discussed elsewhere and came…
Beyond My Comfort Zone
June 10, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit
One of the great things about being single, an adult, and being independent in so many ways is that I don’t have to do much I don’t want to do. The flip side of that is that I can do what I want to do, more or less. That is both a great enabling thing and a terribly debilitating thing. As midlife men, single midlife men at that, it can be more debilitating than enabling,…
THE MUD OF LIFE
April 11, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit
As I ride to work on the busWatching the people of the cityI see many who are in a rushAnd some just standing, looking prettyI marvel at the varietyAnd count the stories that could be toldBy the spread of this humanityFrom young & bold to broken & oldAs I watch, I’m feeling all aloneAnd I wonder why I’m so tiredTo the very brink I feel I’ve grownIn the mud of life, I’ve…
Bending and Breaking Rules
February 11, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Lifestyle, Relationships
In many ways, I’ve lived my life as the ‘good soldier’ and ‘faithful servant,' doing as I thought was the right thing. If you’ve read a few of my blogs, you soon will get the feeling that I could get a lot of things to talk about from movies. Again today is one of my favorites, the 1999 movie, The Matrix. After some ten years, it still can jerk…
Bad Hair Days
January 29, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit
Bad-hair days for me start with, well, bad hair. Actually, not always, I suppose. My hair is a great example of what is meant by the phrase "You look like a ‘shock of wheat’", as my dad used to say. I envy people who have hair that looks essentially the same when they get up as when they went to bed. I must be a violent man when I’m asleep as my hair looks…
