I love poetry.
When I was a kid, I spent endless hours writing it. I wrote up until somewhere in my high school years but can’t remember exactly when or why I stopped. I imagine it was because I moved on to more important things like college, a career or going to happy hour.
I recently took back up writing poetry and I like it.
My approach is very informal - if I find my mind wandering someplace I’ve never been before, I try to make something melodic out of it.
A rooster outside my window in Maui lead to a little poem about cocks.
The leaded glass windows in my historical old home gave way to a poem about opening windows in the mind.
I bought this magnetic poem board for my family for Christmas so we could all partake in the fun.
As we go into a week of planning for the New Year, be thinking about what you loved to do as a kid. So often we make things much too complicated when trying to pinpoint our “passion” or purpose. We think we have to do something grandiose to make a difference in the world, when in actuality, our passion usually lies in the simple things we could be doing every day.
What did you love to do as a kid that you have abandoned?
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Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
