Global warming and its co-dependent, global dimming, have been on my mind a lot lately. The health of Mother Earth has been steadily on the decline for the last few hundred years, and while many of us seem to be aware of that fact, it seems nearly
Read more →In my quest to learn how to heal myself, probably the most meaningful truth I’ve discovered is that the root of nearly every relationship problem we encounter can be traced back to the inability to unconditionally love oneself. It might not seem obvious, but if you had
Read more →It’s finally April and that means that for many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s finally spring. For me here in Japan, it’s spring enough that with the curtains open at 5 a.m., I can enjoy the deep orange of the budding sunrise. I just love
Read more →People are smart. We come from a long line of smart organisms. In fact, if we look at the trillions of organisms living on and in us in our own microbiome, you could look at each of us as being a smart superorganism. Life on Earth has
Read more →In my life of operating various business ventures, I get to enjoy a satisfying mix of attention to detail versus opening up to creation. The different areas in which my business interests operate require very different yet complementary skill sets. Some of those skill sets, however, involve
Read more →Over the last few years, I’ve come to realize that in life what matters most is the journey rather than the destination. I came to this conclusion after I’d spent a long time looking at where I wanted to end up, only to miss what was going
Read more →Of all the cultural changes I can recall since I was a young boy, the increase in obesity is the most noticeable and alarming. I’m 50 now, and 40 years ago, I can honestly state that I don’t remember a single classmate being overweight. Fast forward to
Read more →Not so long ago, my significant other and I watched a wonderful movie called The Bucket List. The story was of two men, both diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and given, max., a year to live and their quest to fulfill their “bucket list” of things they
Read more →Recently, a lot has been written about the paleolithic diet and how our bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to prefer raw, whole foods. Longtime readers of Living Intentionally will no doubt recognize that I’m a strong proponent of such a diet. Agriculture as
Read more →One of the more profound things you can figure out in your lifetime is that how you feel is all a matter of choice. This is especially so with regard to happiness versus unhappiness. We may not have a choice over what we experience at the hands
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