She called me a “roach”. It was after a pretty heated argument. Intellectually I knew she was jealous, I knew she was just upset because I had gotten the promotion and she didn’t. Still I was fuming. Angry. Wanting revenge.
A roach? Did Kafka himself make his way into my life in an unprecedented move. Was I dreaming?
Because seriously, who calls someone THAT? Aren’t we a bit more sophisticated already?
But I am silly sometimes, and after I heard the rather strange insult, oh boy!
I was swimming in a pool of anger, hatred and black, muddy waters, filled with excrement.
Thomas emailed and said: Maybe you could write a post listing the books that have expanded your creative mind as a writer. Thank you. What a GREAT idea.
These are the books that set my heart on fire for writing.
I love her deep honesty. Her vulnerability. How she talks about where and how she hurts, and how she deals with it. I owe her my deep desire to write truth, just like her… with total honesty, even if it is embarrassing.
I learned how to BLEED, and what that meant, when I read Oriah
She goes deep into her personal life, what she is feeling, where she fails, where she triumphs, where she hurts, and on and on.… Read the rest
Let me tell you what happened to me when I read “The Surrender Experiment”” by Michale Singer, which by the way, JUST hit the NY Times Best-Seller… Of course.
It was a big surprise!
Mostly because I did NOT read it.
Instead… I EXPERIENCED it!
It went something like this, in every chapter, and in an endless loop…
– Wait. What!”
– Oh C’mon! Seriously!?
– And he surrendered to THAT?
– Really?
– And then THAT happened?
– WOW…. wow wow wow
Next chapter: Repeat… and on, and on, and on…
I could not put it down, in fact, I switched between reading and listening in audio. … Read the rest
Paul Dallaghan has a yoga retreat that I can only describe as the Richard Branson’s Isand for yoga…
Any yoga “real thing” you’d like is there, at his place in Ko Samui, Thailand (I’ve been to the place twice). For example: ayurvedic treatments, infrared saunas, pool, steaming showers, excellent food, exceptional yoga and pranayama instruction and amazingly beautiful accommodations by the ocean… [ If you can’t see the window with the play button click here to start listening ]
And he is one of the most humble people I know. Maybe that is why everything good comes his way… Although life is not always easy…
I found out in a rather “brutal way” for podcast standards so to speak, that he is no longer with his wife… I went unconscious and said:
“I’m sorry”
To which he laughed and said: “Nothing to be sorry about, but yeah, go ahead”
Just like comedian and philosopher Louis CK says: divorce is a good thing…
When two people’s journeys come to an end, then so be it…
My stepdaughter wanted to know when I was going to die. She then asked: “How does it feel to be closer to death?”
Which made me think… If I die, someone new will need an instruction book for how to handle James.
So I came up with ten ideas, of course!
Listen closely
1) – Always Tie his Shoe Laces Before Leaving the House
He will complain. He will try to persuade you that he hasn’t tied them since he was six so he doesn’t need to. It’s his mutant power to walk around with untied shoelaces.… Read the rest