The next curve is my Mantra
By Don / Date: June 26th, 2018
I could sit on a cushion and follow my breath. I have done that. Or stretch beyond downward dog into cobra and beyond. And I do. Or I could unfold myself along a line between the foreground and middle distance, in strides measured in smooth, swift acceleration, shifting gears, pressure, balance and an eye ever […]
In time…
By Don / Date: June 13th, 2018
Her Husband died that day. It took a while. After the grief, guilt, the many shades and graces of pain. After the mourners had left. After the last of the old letters, now tear-stained and worn, ripped had finally been put in a bag at the back of the closet. Or burned. Along with the […]
$1.549 / litre – What is Gas costing us?
By Don / Date: April 25th, 2018
Photo by Gab Pili on Unsplash April 24th, 2018, Victoria, BC – regular gasoline is $1.549 per Litre. The highest it has ever been. I might be on the ‘tree-hugger’ side of this particular debate – however I am also practical and so I made the pilgrimage to my local gas station before the hike from $1.459 went […]
Zen and the art of Bike Wrapping
By Don / Date: March 26th, 2018
Last year I got back on a Motorbike for the first time in about 20 years. Over the winter, once I had finished working with my Son to rebuild an engine and get the kids car back on the road, the next job was cleaning up the Bike ready for 2018. As well as basic […]
Ready?
By Don / Date: February 13th, 2018
“I cannot do that, I am not ready.” Either saying to yourself, saying it to or hearing it from another person, this sentence can be a show-stopper, idea killer, inspiration breaker. It neatly divides the world into ‘where I am now’ and ‘where I could be.’ All that sits in the way is ‘Ready’. What […]
Achilles Sensor
By Don / Date: January 22nd, 2018
Some problems take more than one crack to solve them. This was one such. An ongoing project; almost finished at Christmas and then re-finished by January 2nd was getting a Subaru Outback running again after replacing failed cylinder head gaskets. A fun job that involved removing the engine; twice. Replacing the engine; twice. Cursing copiously […]
Distracted
By Don / Date: December 29th, 2017
While we make Love The sky will be shattered Into a million gold pieces There will be no way To put it back together…
Getting through
By Don / Date: December 27th, 2017
Keep your eyes on me Whilst we find our way Aimlessly On purpose From door to door The dark beauty, splashing texturing every street Seen in the same moment So simple Like reaching for you in the dark I am ever more awake Whilst you are there Here Let’s take this […]
Right Now
By Don / Date: December 27th, 2017
Presence. So much of what stops me in Life, and in my experience as Coach, stops us human beings is in the family of mental states of worry, regret, guilt and shame. Either we are projecting forward into the future how things may go wrong, or we are locked into an interpretation of the past that […]
Santa, God, Community and Graph Theory…
By Don / Date: December 27th, 2017
No one really believes in Santa, right? The very notion of someone solving the world’s hardest travelling salesman problem (NP-complete, for the geeks out there) and a hypersonic transportation issue not to mention moving that much mass around, and coming down chimneys? It is almost enough to make dark matter/dark energy look like a reasonable […]