Bouquets

So many of us are beautiful, fragile flowers. Except, we are sitting in a glass vase in a windowsill. We are already dead.  We suck up the water.  We struggle and lean into the sunshine as much as we can. But we are dead, dead, dead. We keep showing up to jobs we hate to make money to waste...

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Gratitude Meditation X

Gratitude Meditations —  I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX And on this day, what are you most grateful for? Your parents? Your cat? Dog? Hamster? Where you live? The food on your table? The fact you can show up to a store in the dead of winter and get avocados? Accessibility of car...

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Gratitude Meditation IX

At the start of the year, I set out to work more diligently than ever on the book about Eudaimonia. Over the years I’ve gradually fleshed it out, the one thing I felt self-conscious about was that the writing seemed to be grueling slow. Shortly after, I began writing these daily meditations. Par...

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Gratitude Meditation VIII

The way that shadows of tree branches dance and oscillate against the wall in the morning sun. How I wake up a bit older, but indiscernably so, each day. When you randomly smell something and it “just brings you back” to some memory you didn’t know you had filed away. For the little Macintosh I ...

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Gratitude Meditation VII

Gratitude Meditations —  I II III IV V VI Seeing as it’s Thanksgiving, let’s practice gratitude meditation together all week to celebrate. Gratitude is a best practice that should be utilized not just for holding hands around a family-ensconced dinner table with a turkey, sweet potatoe...

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Band-Aids and LEGO

“I have the worst luck.” “How can you believe in God when bad things happen to good people?” These meditations nor Eudaimonia are explicitely religious, firstly. They work just fine for those of us who believe, but also apply for those who do not believe. We tend to hold a misperception that ...

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Fast, Easy or Best?

You have been sleeping with a man other than your significant other because it has been easy to do. Your man was away, or busy, or ignorant… and this was a quick , easy moment of pleasure. But was it what was BEST? You have been eating pizza rolls, fast food, and sweets every day. It’s conve...

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Altars and the Living Sacrifice

Per the Oxford Dictionary, an altar is defined as: “[A] table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.” Whether you’re a religious person or not, the word “altar” likely conjures up imagery such as people kneeing and...

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Death Meditation XV

Death Meditations —  I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV Imagine floating in space.  You were once a great Ranger in the year 2225, out exploring the nearby star Alpha Centauri. It took you over 5 years to arrive here from Earth, having flown around Mars, thro...

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Demons

There are demons within us. Some of us have few. Most of us have many. There are demons out in others in the world. How quick we are to subjugate the world to our scrutinizing words and gaze for their demons. “What a stupid thing to believe.” “How can you follow such an ideology?” “It’s just ...

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