2Rt Mate Tuesday Liminal Wisdom From The Continuum | Sergio Hernandez Cardiff By The Sea, Ca. 2010 Featured Lesson: Liminal Wisdom From The ContinuumThe Hard Wired: Sergio HernandezBetween the Covers: Henry ShukmanThe Pranasphere Podcast Before we start:Liminal= being at a threshold — a space between one state and another, where transformation, insight, or renewal can quietly take place.Wisdom= the understanding that grows from experience — the ability to see clearly.Continuum= unbroken flow...
14 days ago • 3 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Letting Nature In | Jane Goodall | Clara-Jumi Kang Lessons Learned: - Letting Nature In- The Hard Wired: Jane Goodall- Vibe We're Lovin'- Between the Covers: - Picture This: Hello Friend, 👉 In short:Letting Nature In is less about escaping to the mountains and more about opening the door — literally and figuratively — to the living world that wants to steady us. We forget how porous we are. A breeze moves through us; birdsong rearranges the day. Even a single tree outside the...
20 days ago • 4 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday The Ecstatic Motion of Magnanimity | Rumi The Ecstatic Motion of Magnanimity Lessons Learned: - The Ecstatic Motion of Magnanimity⚡ The Hard Wired: Jean Lowe and Kim MacConnel🎶 Vibe Were Lovin'📖 Between the Covers Hi Friend,Before we begin: what follows is my playful almost poetic way of taking a look at the delicate difference between gratitude and magnanimity. 👉 In short:Gratitude is a disposition of appreciation and thankfulness.Magnanimity is kindness and generosity...
28 days ago • 4 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Pedestals | The Sexual Revolution | Nature's Refection Sunrise this morning.. * Nature's Reflection of Wisdom * Vibe We're Lovin * The Hard Wired * Lessons Learned Hi Friend, As I sit sometimes in my open field here on Butterfly Ranch the grasses bend in the wind, the hawks circle overhead & the 5 mountain ranges to the east allow my mind to drift into the past. Every story you can possibly imagine is there. There's a wide variety of different places I've been on this planet,...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Amaroq Weiss | Nature Walks | Lessons Learned Editorial: Nature Walks This Weeks Read: Jack Kornfield & Vanda Scaravelli The Hard Wired: Amaroq Weiss+ The Teachings: 3 ways to reduce stress.+ The Pranasphere Podcast Update Hi Friend,All of nature’s landscapes have offered a safe haven — not just for me, but for countless souls before me. They provide a grounding no philosophy or practice possibly could. Nature is the beginning of all philosophies and practices. Rumi once...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Of Truth | 1960 | Rose in the Garden Part of Rosie's Garden... Hi Friend, I often work on stories for months, which is the case for this one.Rose in the Garden is an excellent story in its own right but I needed something to take it deeper..I found inspiration while talking to my friend Tim in Costa Rica earlier this year.Enjoy... Rose in the Garden Being in love with a woman in her garden is a magical experience for this man. Shedding years of toil just in a glance. Is it a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Solitude | Humor | Somatic Kinetic Intelligence Hi Friend, The body seems to be able to say just what it needs and when I say body I mean that in the largest sense. For me it's the body of the universe itself, mirrored within our own inner landscape — an intelligent current of energy that moves through galaxies and through our very marrow with the same unbroken wisdom. To sense this current requires solitude — not isolation, but the quiet turning inward that happens when we...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Nature's Embodiment of Joy Hi Friend, It is striking how much the simple act of being in nature awakens my joy. And in the Blue Zones—those rare places where people live well past a hundred—this is simply how life is lived. Sardinian shepherds walking hillsides, Okinawan grandmothers tending gardens, Nicoyan villagers rising with the rivers: it's grounding their joy and longevity. I return often in memory to one of the most serene experiences of my life—a five-day camping...
2 months ago • 2 min read
2Rt Mate Tuesday Therapeutics & The Shape of a Life Well-Lived Hi Friend, I've been fortunate in having a good set of healthy practices that have assisted me throughout my life. Though they have most certainly changed as I have grown older, they have always been there for me and I am thankful for that.I've added many more to my initial foundation of course, to counter balance some of my crazy decisions. Hey, crazy decisions make great stories if you survive.Just keepin it real. Some people...
3 months ago • 5 min read