Are You Enjoying Life — Follow Up
Last week I posed the following question to myself and you, reader. Are You Enjoying Life? I identified a few action items to tackle and a short bulleted list of...
Field Notes
Field Notes are a mix of thoughtful essays and adventure journaling.
Run From What's Comfortable
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”...
Chase No One
Chase No One. Lead your own life. Comparison is a double-edged sword. It is a healthy metric for self improvement but unhealthy if our self worth is attached to how...
Dirty Laundry: How To Be (Un)Disciplined
Today marks thirty-three days of our new, mobile, dirty-good lifestyle. Although we’d been practicing living out of the Beaumont for the better part of July and August in Bend, there...
Vitality
And when a horse stops work and goes into the barn there is a life and a vitality left, there is a breathing and a warmth, and the feet shift...
Keep Moving, Be Still
I write about keep moving often, as it is an important element to mental wellness. I recognize that when I am stagnant, not moving toward a goal, not moving my...
Marcus Aurelius on Resilience
Sometimes we have weeks in which daily experiences seem to conspire to keep us off balance and out of sync. These circumstances push us away from our natural character, away...
12 Takeaways on Happiness from Epicurus
It is important for each of us to create our own doctrine on living, to discover for ourselves the ingredients for obtaining vitality and happiness. We cull information over time...
Redefining the Happiness Baseline
I believed I was on a quest for happiness. My search was both rigorous and exhaustive. I scaled mountains, explored ocean depths, spilled poetry from my gut, rambled to anyone...