by Michael | Apr 15, 2023 | Building Skills, Relationships, Spirituality
This is one of the requirements for an upcoming test in my martial art, Seido Juku, which I’ve practiced since 2015. Longer than my usual post, the essay is written for that particular international community and for my local dojo but it’s accessible...
by Michael | Jan 31, 2023 | Building Skills, Relationships
I began this list for another blog but in 2016. That feels like an entire life ago, but it was sometime around the birth of my second son. I aimed for 25 lessons but stopped at 20. I haven’t edited this “draft,” though I’ll post it and, likely,...
by Michael | Jan 19, 2023 | Interior Life, Quotes, Relationships
by Michael | Jan 3, 2023 | Building Skills, Interior Life, Relationships, Spirituality
These are three motions, three commitments, three postures – all worth living into. If you’re into making commitments in the first month of the year, consider them. Celebrate what was. One of my plans in the first weeks of this year is to a write list or...
by Michael | Dec 30, 2020 | Building Skills, Relationships, Work
When you give energy to a thing, you give it life. Energy includes mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual material like thoughts and posture and effort. When you give a thing or a person or an idea energy, you give it life. The other, accompanying side is that...
