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On Being Important | An Integrated Life

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Beyond Communication, Connection. Emotional Safety →. May 30, 2015 · 3:05 pm. I have been at school for the past two weeks. At my age, you rarely get the opportunity to disconnect from the world and focus on learning new things for that long. Life is full. We have responsibilities, work, clients, family, to-do lists. There’s stuff to do. People need us. We’re IMPORTANT, dag nab it! What would I like to do better? I needn’t have worried. We tend to rise to expectations when things are important ...That ha...

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Emotional Safety | An Integrated Life

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There Are No Shortcuts →. July 4, 2015 · 1:15 pm. This past week I moved my 17 year old son from Virginia to live with me in Vermont. The past few years have been like one giant lesson to me about emotional safety. It is one of those things that we all sort of know, but we don’t talk about. At least we don’t give it the importance I believe it deserves. I am part of a creative group that was started years ago by Jon Katz, the bestselling author. We shut down and close ourselves off to protect ourselves.

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Mindfulness Sucks, but…. | An Integrated Life

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There Are No Shortcuts. A Step Forward →. July 22, 2015 · 3:30 pm. Mindfulness Sucks, but…. I just got back from the doctors. The news was good. Most of my family has had a good old age. So good in fact, that I probably have a warped sense of what old age is. My vision of it is not that different than how I am now. Greyer hair but pretty vital, pretty alert, involved in life and the world, always growing right up to the end. And this diagnosis threatened that vision. Until of course, it wasn’t. A lot of ...

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Avoiding the Stall | An Integrated Life

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During October…. →. August 13, 2015 · 2:43 pm. I have been stalled the past few weeks. Getting away from home, and going to college, was a revelation to me. People actually cared about feelings out there. I began to let them out again, tentatively at first, then wildly, exuberantly. Maybe I put too much emphasis on them, but it was glorious in its way. Years later, though, real life kicked in (Don’t you just hate that phrase? And giving them outlets? Boy, did I ever have that wrong. And so I began, years...

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Beyond Communication, Connection | An Integrated Life

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On Being Important →. May 11, 2015 · 5:52 pm. Beyond Communication, Connection. I feel some days that the whole world is trying to communicate with me. I get a couple hundred junk emails and a couple dozen real emails every day. I get newsletters and ads and tweets and posts. I get drawings and questions from clients. Phone calls and instant messages and chats. It’s a barrage from more people and companies than I can count. What’s the difference? No Is it badly written or designed? And there is no algori...

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A Step Forward | An Integrated Life

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Mindfulness Sucks, but…. Avoiding the Stall →. July 25, 2015 · 11:45 am. Some time ago I mentioned that I was joining the John C. Maxwell teach of certified life coaches, trainers and speakers. John C. Maxwell, of course, is the world’s foremost expert on leadership and personal growth, with over 70 books written on the subject, many of them best sellers. It is an intensive curriculum, and one that continues. However, I am now official and they have added my site to their John Maxwell Group site.

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About | Slices of My Soul

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Part poet, part broadcast engineer, part marketing expert, part professional creative, photographer, mentor and entrepreneur – I’ve never been able to tell people what I do in 25 words or less. Raised in Virginia, I now live in Vermont, where the New England countrysides and towns sing to me each day, while technology lets me work with clients anywhere and everywhere. They are pretty random, just as life is often pretty random. But they may well end up as a book. Are you the curious sort? Fill in your de...

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Quarry House: Poem: Quarry Walking

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012. It is hot,. And your muscles,. No longer young,. Feel the effort of climbing,. In your path,. Another wall of slate,. Grey, harsh and hot. From the day's sun,. Edges sharp and shifting,. That echoes through the quarry. As if falls under your feet. Steam rises, remnants. Of last night's rain,. Now filling the air. With breath robbing moisture. That mingles with your sweat. In the late May sun. Not because you have. Of a destination. No,. That belief, that there is a place. Essays on...

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Quarry House: Poem: Invisible Art

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012. It is warm outside,. But dark clouds pass by. Spitting rain in bursts,. Before wind casts them to the horizon. And the sun returns. You are dry and shadowed,. Sitting under a vast canvas tent,. Who have all come to bid. On tiny parts of yet another. Stranger's life, buying. The trinkets and framed history,. The worn objects and odd treasures. That drew them, like road kill. Draws black buzzards, while. At pine shadows, texture and light,. A painting fleeting as the wind,. Essays ...