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Be Like The Roots of A Tree

Yesterday, you were sitting on the couch holding a print out on meditation from a Jack Kornfield book. I was so happy I wanted to cry. I didn’t. Today, you’re 3-feet deep into a Game of Thrones...

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…every little things seems so BIG.

Sunday after church, a calendar notice popped up on your phone, reminding you to go to Flatirons Community Church each week with your brother. You turned to me and said, “I guess I’ll take him off and...

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Turn Your Broken Heart Into Art

Today, two broken-hearted people sat across from one another for hours talking about addiction, on camera. I sat right. He sat left. He wore way cooler clothes than me. Especially when we filmed the...

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Good Talk, Russ

March has to be better than February. Had a couple wise friends over this week. On Tuesday night I needed a Priest. Luckily, Steven was available. He spent 20 years as a Zen Buddhist Priest. A few...

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They gave each other a smile with a future in it…

I went home today to start cleaning up the glass. I noticed you still had a load of laundry in the washer and another in the dryer. I walked around desperately searching for clues to the fight you...

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You play with your head, not your heart…

Because you don’t read my blog, you don’t know how writing things like this are a form of closure for me. This is different. This is different because you are different. I walked out our front door the...

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The Theme of Things To Come + A Lost Year In Review

Happy Holidays. 2017 was an interesting year full of lessons and filled with love, heart break, and not nearly enough Yoga. I end this year feeling stuck in my personal life and yet, pretty damn...

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Fall Forward

Today at 2:02 PM MST marks the first day of fall, commonly known as the Autumn Equinox. I love this time of year. Fall is my second favorite season (after spring). Today we usher in hand-knit sweaters...

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Oh The Places You’ll Go

We’re sitting up at the bar at Boulder Beer talking to a group of guys sitting across from us. About Vermont. About maple syrup. About where we’re from. #OriginStories I point to J and say – “He’s from...

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Does Personality Change?

Do you remember the Marshmallow Experiment? In the 1970’s, Walter Mischel conducted an experiment at Stanford in delayed gratification. Children were given one marshmallow then told if they could wait...

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Radical Forgiveness

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”Gregory David RobertsThe first time I met Laura was in 2007 at Blogtoberfest San Marcos. Years later, we shared a...

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Obsessions

“I lost myself trying to please everyone else, now I’m losing everyone while trying to find myself.Recently a friend introduced me to the library. Mind you I’ve had my Boulder Public Library card for a...

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Would It Help?

Naked, tangled limbs make it hard for me to get up in the morning. So I sleep in…and then I complain there aren’t enough hours in the day. And so it goes. Which begs the question, would you rather be...

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#MakeBiggerPuddles

I am in, what feels like at least, the worst pain of my life. I haven’t been able to feel or process it all yet because I have continuously been surrounded by friends – and Love. These are the facts....

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Wabi Sabi

A few years ago, my friend Shannon was brainstorming a new offering for her yoga students. I was in one of my “I’m taking my Zen practice seriously” modes, and was revisiting a book Sue Bender wrote...

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Goats, And Chickens, and Writers – Oh My!

He’s sitting in an overstuffed green chair under a window reading one of Victor’s books. I look up to see him wiping tears from his eyes. “It’s a touching book” he says by way of an apology. I nod in...

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The Work Leads To The Work

My friend George and his wife Stephie are two of the most incredible people I’ve ever known. George is a photographer. One of the best. But every time he takes my photo he looks at his camera and...

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It’s NOT Complicated

I think people over complicate things. Especially relationships. It’s 3 am and I’m on the phone with D telling him about Aric. D: Have you told him about us? Me: Of course. D: I want to meet him. And...

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Something That Has Always Been

The number of times I started this post – and then set it aside. COUNTLESS. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I swiped right because he was passing through town…and from his profile he was looking...

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Strictly Business

As the story goes, B was 11 years old when she dropped out of school and 12 when she had her first daughter. Shortly after, she moves to California where she takes a job working for a man running a car...

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