Two mornings ago, I was standing atop Long’s Peak with, oh, thirty other people. Long’s is a Colorado monarch, the northernmost fourteener of over fifty in my home state. It’s a darn tough, technical, mountain climb, and obsessively crowded.  Most of the folks on the summit were like me, in their twenties or thirties, many…

Today I got home from school, napped, and consumed a load of carbs- my usual Wednesday afternoon dwindle to a near halt. When I woke up, work was still washing up on the shores of my mind like a stupid duck-shaped paddle boat that someone forgot to tie to the dock. So I planned some objectives and KUD’s…

Some Tuesday morning perspective: Dear, Dear One, This life is too short to spend one more minute of it fretting. Trust me— who knows how many more sunrises I (you) will see? Let go. You can’t control the future. The things you think are worth worrying about are just heartbeats, dust, nothing. Eternity is ours,…

This, this that I call my self, Is a bridge only. What the God of suns and stars does behind my skull, in my veins and ventricles, I cannot fathom What the God of my heart does outside my flesh, What God does with wind and tree and rock, And the exhalations and inhalations of…

Interesting expression of one author’s experience in relation to Søren Kierkegaard’s existential questions. The Path of Writing | Tricycle.

Peter Fleischer: Privacy…?: The right to be forgotten, or how to edit your history. A comprehensive and easy to read overview of internet privacy issues, the European droit “a l’oubli,” straight from the horse’s mouth: that of Peter Fleischer, Google’s privacy policy director. The whole blog is a must-read, really.

An examination of how to prioritize writing in your life, with Sean Murphy’s ever-moderate, equivocal and clear insights. Newsletter – Sean Murphy. Sean has been my zen teacher since I was a little squirt, just out of college. His tone alone teaches me much about meditation, writing, and goals in life. Enjoy!

“Without relationship, there is no existence: to be is to be related. Most of us do not seem to realize this;that the world is my relationship with others, whether one or many. My problem is that of relationship. What I am, that I project, and obviously, if I do not understand myself, the whole of…

“Is it possible to be related without idea, without demand, without ownership, possession? Can we commune with each other – which is real relationship on all the different levels of consciousness – if we are related to each other through a desire, a physical or psychological need? And can there be relationship without these conditioning…

One must wonder if it is a good thing that, “Instead of constraining our power, [international organizations] magnified it.”” -Barack Obama http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140343/stewart-patrick/the-unruled-world