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One of the practices I’ve cultivated over the past couple of years, a practice which I feel helps keep me at an emotional equilibrium and is complimentary to an overall feeling of happiness and contentment, is meditation. I’ve briefly touched on meditation in past blogs yet I don’t feel I’ve ever really launched into much detail about what it is and what the practice means to me, or what it could…

Another two’ish years, another PCS

Moving day / Our last family photo in Wisconsin

The new lease has been signed, the house once again unpacked and arranged, the moving truck was returned over a month ago and the dust has settled. The pets have spent their time discovering their new surroundings, WE have taken ample time to discover ours as well. We have made so many memories already in the month and a half that we have been in…

Today it was brought to my attention that I may have a problem. This problem has been with me for years, lying dormant in the recesses of my mind and only activating itself during crucial analytical moments. In retrospect I can clearly see it, as I do at this exact moment in time, yet when push comes to shove and as interactions are occurring I cannot see it.

My problem is Pessimism.

Skyler’s…

On death and dying or living and thriving

There comes a point in every person’s life during which they’re confronted by their own mortality. Although Death is an inevitability of the human condition, I would wager heavily that, early on, most of us never really take the time to contemplate our shelf lives. When we finally reach that realization it hits us like a ton of bricks and we’re left reeling from the potentiality of a life…