Beth and I are reacting to the pressure in different ways and the contrast is remarkable, painful at times and comical. Beth decides what items to store, take or let go by placing the item some place in our home, feeling its connection and worth to her and then judging where it goes. This may …
I’m completely out of gas, flat, exhausted, and spent. I accomplished a lot, but not without beating myself up in the process. It’s not healthy to go this hard for days on end, but when you’re up against the clock there’s little choice. I write this to remind myself how much work it takes to …
If you’re new to the blog and don’t think you’ll be reading dozens of old (but wonderful) entries, allow me to update you on where we are, now. Beth and I are selling our home in Yorktown Heights, New York. After 17 years of living in this beautiful writer’s treehouse, the time has come to …
I have been having a hard 24 hours. Since we determined that our trailer’s jack was broken, I’ve been feeling frustrated, angry, disappointed, and sad. In my last post, I wrote about welcoming difficult situations as an opportunity to become a better warrior. That still makes a lot of sense to me and it’s been …
Five years ago, I started praying to God for problems. I asked my Higher Power to test me, to bring on challenges so I could become stronger and wiser. I wanted these tests to be hard and uncomfortable because I knew that the steel of my sword needed forging in fire and combat. All of …
We are T-12 days to leaving our home of 17 years and 1 day away from the estate sale that we hope will whisk away most of our belongings. It has been a long and bittersweet process for me, delightedly rifling through old letters and photographs, unloading items I have kept for way too long …
“We grow forward when the delights of growth and anxieties of safety are greater than the growth of anxiety and the delights of safety.” Abraham Maslow In my early years, I was taught how to pursue comfort, not courage. Success, I learned, was “to enjoy life, retire and then do more enjoying!” In effect, I …
Our beautiful home has been transformed into a thrift bazaar. There are tables upstairs and downstairs and in the garage covered with all manner of stuff from every corner of our lives. Each item has a post-it note with its price. Beth keeps saying, “This is weird.” True. The two of us have tried our …
Today, we visited an elementary school and wrote three songs with first graders. It’s one of my favorite things to do – writing and recording a simple song in 45 minutes, collaborating with the teacher and the kids to make a pleasant song. It’s a kind of magic trick to do it so fast and I …