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  • Keys to the Prison

    Dialogue between two former prisoners of war: “Have you forgiven your captors yet?” “No, never!” “Well, then, they still have you in prison, don’t they?” Previously, when presented with idea of Forgiveness my literal brain was satisfied with the basic definition of the term and I pressed forward. My mind instinctively skipped ahead, assigning a…

  • Don’t Hassle Wim Hof

    Wim Hof is a Dutch motivational speaker and extreme athlete noted for his prolonged swimming in frigidly cold water and running half marathons in bare feet on ice and snow. His Wim Hof Method (WHM) involves willpower, exposure to cold water and breathing techniques. I will delve into my thoughts on cold therapy in another…

  • 256 Shades of Gray

    Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters > Grayscale If you already know where I’m going with this I want to offer an earnest, “Hear me out. I’m not a nut, I promise.” If you don’t have the foggiest notion of what this means then I have a modest proposal for…

  • My Mind-Body is a Temple

    The Ise Jingu of Japan, originally built 2,000 years ago, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu. I say originally built because every 20 years it is dismantled and rebuilt on an adjacent site to the same exacting specifications. The basis for this practice is the Shinto belief of tokowaka which emphasizes the renewal of…

  • The Power of the Pause

    “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.” – Artur Schnabel I’ve been captivated by “The Sacred Art of Pausing” that Tara Brach describes in her book Radical Acceptance. She posits that practicing mindful pauses throughout your day will slow down…

  • What’s with the Name?

    The inspiration for The Clumsy Interloper was derived from a quote from HBO’s Succession performed by Karl Muller directed toward Tom Wambsgans in S4E4 “Honeymoon States” when Tom “respectfully” threw his hat into the ring for interim CEO: “SORT-OF” SPOILER WARNING AHEAD. IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED SUCCESSION YET, THERE IS A SUCCESSION. IT’S IN THE…

  • The Blinking Line

     “The blinking line is whatever sits in front of you waiting to be brought into existence.” –Rob Bell from How to be Here The act of opening a word processing document (or blog for that matter) and staring at that blinking vertical cursor line is such a primordial human experience. If you strip us down…