Tomorrow, bright and early, I need to get back in the car and travel east. Toward Colorado. Which is not a bad place. Nor is work bad. Exactly. But you know. Today would be a day in San Luis Obispo. Doing my own kind of things. Walking the Labyrinth My day in San Luis Obispo […]
Up till now my central coast trip has been in and around Morro Bay. Today, I decided to go up Highway 1 to see the part of that road that clung precariously to the side of a mountain. This would be that part of Highway 1, driving to Big Sur. This trip would not go
It’s funny when you are born somewhere, like California, that has such a big cultural significance. California dreaming was an idiom and a song when I was a kid. I took it for granted. I knew nothing else, since I was born here, but California dreaming was something my dad experienced as a young man,
My father used to say that the indigenous Californians were less violent than the plains tribes. I didn’t think of that as a sign of a difference between the tribes themselves so much as the effect of the weather and geography of California. When you’re in California, particularly on the coast, with the sound of
Around noon I began to wonder how crazy I was to plan the long drive I was taking. The second day of 500 plus miles. Mile after mile of standing on the pedal and holding the wheel. It was uncomfortable. I wasn’t bored, though, actually. I was enjoying the drive, the country unfolding before me.
Is 700 miles too far to drive in one day? On the first day of my California spiritual journey, I drove 720 miles. I left Fort Collins at 7 a.m. and rolled into Denver to the tune of John Major playing Jimi Hendrix’s “Bold as Love” and I felt pretty good for the first three
Your first job before leaving on a geographical spiritual journey is to make sure you and the equipment are ready. But tonight as I prepare to leave, the car is out of gas. And I am rushing around the kitchen, making pizza. Thinking that I will eat some now and some tomorrow. And some when
Midlife crisis in women is potentially a fraught subject. There’s more material on male midlife crisis then on women’s, but the truth is women have them too. anyone can have a crisis when faced with such serious considerations as.. mortality. According to my research, the age of onset for midlife crisis in women (and men
What is the plank exercise challenge and what could plank pose do for you? Plank pose helps you have a flat stomach, lose weight and walk gracefully. This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that
Being Over 60 Being over 60 isn’t easy, even when you’re Boy George. Maybe I should say, especially when you are. But having finished his memoir Karma, I find that Boy George builds up your optimism for living life fully, for being true to your impulses, even the bad ones, and to sticking around to
