[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_margin=”-11px|||||” custom_padding=”||0px|||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”533px” module_alignment=”center”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Waking up in the night, sweating, heart racing, I felt a tightness in my chest, uncertainty, feeling like so many things are shattered into pieces and mixed up. Getting up to […]

Gift of Resistance  

Sometimes our worst moments lead to our best life. The longest loneliest walk I ever took was leaving a bankruptcy hearing as a young man.   Somehow the emptiness of having nothing left kindled in my mind and heart a deep drive to grow and innovate in ways I had never known before. It turned out […]

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” header_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”54%” module_alignment=”center”] The small jet turned a few degrees left, then rose two thousand feet before banking slightly to the right. I looked up from my work as we flew up and […]

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”82%” max_width=”533px” module_alignment=”center”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” header_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]  Slicing through the cool inky Swedish summer night, steady driving music my companion, the countryside flew by.  Suddenly my navigation went dark.  Tapping the screen there was nothing. A moment […]

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.4.2″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”533px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ header_font=”||||||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_4_text_align=”center” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] The over-heavy pack pulled hard, down and back on my shoulders, shifting the load helped for a moment, then  it crept back, relentless, heavy, cumbersome, burning – weighting me down. My son […]

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.4.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”528px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Sometimes deciding what to stop doing is more important that what to start doing. The deepest most soulful dive I’ve ever taken was on my birthday.   Looking in the mirror I sighed, “I need a vacation.”  […]