Writer. Speaker. Nice Guy.
“R U OK?” Today is R U OK? Day. R U OK? Day is an initiative designed to start conversations, connect people, and prevent suicide. It’s all about asking that simplest of questions -“Are you OK?” – and being present and ready to listen. The tagline is “A conversation could change a life.” I believe it wholeheartedly. […]
“This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.” – Laura Schlessinger This. Is. All. You. Have. Wow. If you have the courage to truly look at […]
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran My daughter is suffering a bit now, with her illness. She’s OK, but just uncomfortable. Late last night it got me thinking about how we aren’t used to suffering – almost every opportunity for “discomfort” in our […]
“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.” – D.H. Lawrence So it is. I’ve been blessed by a few soft landings from said leaps recently. Either way, it’s important to remember that we must, at some point, leap. We must move outside our comfort zones. We must get comfortable […]
“We have to be greater than what we suffer.” – Gwen Stacy This quote is taken from the speech given by Spiderman’s girlfriend in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It is a cracking film, but it has left me utterly hollow after the death of Gwen Stacy in the last act. (No spoiler alert, cos it’s […]
“Get up early.” It might seem that I’m going all Sergeant Hulka on you (nod Bill Murray and Stripes) telling you to LOOK UP and GET UP EARLY and stuff like that… …but it’s all coming from LOVE. I have found getting up early to be such a delight, and such a peaceful, beautiful time […]
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” – Lucy Larcom I am struggling with winter. This happens every year, and every year I struggle with it. I think it’s a combination of a 1910’s-era home without insulation or central heating, coupled with high ceilings, expansive rooms, and timber floors under […]
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in other places, too. But right now, I have to agree with Roosevelt. I’m getting an enormous sense of enjoyment and happiness from the creative effort required to design and layout our bus, the work on […]
“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo Well, actually, the original quote is: “On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.” Translation: One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. (Check out the full litany of […]
“Forgive yourself.” I set ridiculously high expectations upon myself. I have done it my whole life. I have always been driven to achieve, and I always feel a keen sense of failure whenever I don’t measure up to my own standards. I have also been hanging on to an enormous amount of guilt, shame, and […]