Soon I leave my neighborhood of eighteen years. Rare is the day I don’t mutter the words, “I won’t miss this…” That statement is a tired one and comes from a thoughtless place. For all its flaws, this home has been a good one. It’s the only one […]
When I was very young, someone prophesied over me: You shall be like a pillar, strong enough to support a building, and when the building shakes, even should other pillars weaken and break, you will remain strong enough to keep the structure stable. If the prophet could have […]
“Active Bodies, Quiet Minds” You will find those words displayed in every H-Wise yoga studio you enter. I was not the first to come up with the phrase, but I was the first to register the trademark. For good measure, I also trademarked busy bodies, still minds; working […]
There aren’t enough Top Lists for this New Year, so I’ve decided to fill the void with a small list of my own. I’ll call my list “Top Things Luke Experienced This Year”, or TTLETY for short. (That acronym may be pronounced “Total Eddie”, for those averse to […]
Suppose you suffered from a pain so long you learned to forget it was there, like a thin needle – too small to see, but too bothersome to ignore – was inserted into your flesh while you were preoccupied, and it remained festering for years. What would it […]
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