By Kent Nerburn It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why some loves grow, and it is a mystery why some loves fail. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do any more than take the life out of the experience. Love is more than the sum of…
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Happy New Year! For the first time in a very long time, I wasn’t working at a restaurant on New Year’s Eve. For that reason, I felt the urge to do something to ring in 2012. Go watch some fireworks? Go to a bar? Surely if I’m not working I should be doing something exciting. What I really wanted however, was to sit on the couch with Brian, eat potato chips and gummy worms and…
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A few years ago, I discovered Christine Hassler‘s book Twenty Something, Twenty Everything and since then I’ve been on her mailing list. On New Year’s Eve, I received an email outlining her New Year’s Ritual. I love it so much, I wanted to share it. I think it’s a great way to start a new year. This New Year’s ritual that I’m sharing with you will support you in letting go of the past and clarifying…
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I am home in B.C for the holidays and I received a call from Hawaii on Wednesday that made my day. Uncle ‘Santa’ Sam called to tell me my article about him in Makai Ocean Lifestyle Magazine was published. He was getting calls from people seeing his face on the cover and telling him how much they liked it. Most importantly, I am happy that Sam loves it. I could hear him smiling through the phone…
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Thank you for inspiring me every day Grandma and Grandpa! When everything has been told and retold countless times, when the places I have visited, the things I have experienced, the steps I have taken because of her are all transformed into distant memories, nothing will remain but pure love. …Love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and…
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