Grahic Designer and Writer
I recently had a minor health scare which forced me into making some adjustments to my life that I’d been planning for a while, but never actually incorporated. Why didn’t I ever start? This is my health after all. And for that matter, why do I put off beginning other things that I know are …
There are still a few weeks left in 2021, but I find that for me mid-December is a great time to both lock in my misogi event for next year and also review the past twelve months. The latter is a practice I learned from the stoic Seneca. He famously put each day up for …
I was recently invited to be a guest on the Plant Your Seed podcast. It’s a show where people tell the stories of their journey to a plant-based diet. I’ve enjoyed prior episodes—especially this one with animal sanctuary photographer, Sammantha Fisher—so it was a pretty exciting thing for me to do. It was also my …
Each year Japanese Shintoists make pilgrimages to waterfalls and bodies of water throughout the country to participate in a sacred purification ritual known as misogi. They submerge themselves (or sometimes just take a drink) and cleanse their bodies of pollution, welcoming in a new spirit. Then they do it again the next year. There is …
For the past few years my wife, Laura, has been finishing her late dad’s bucket list. He was killed by a distracted driver on her cell phone, and a few years later my brother-in-law found a document in his belongings titled Things I Would Like To Do In My Lifetime! There were 60 items on …
When the pandemic hit back in March I was in the middle of training to run the Big Sur International Marathon. It was to be my first one and I was very excited, even though the course is known to be one of the toughest in the country. So when lockdown hit the race was …
The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …
The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …
The horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth’s surface, and those that do not. At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at …