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June 10, 2025

Learn to be Where You Are (Presence)

January 2023

January 20, 2023

10 of my Favorite Words

Let me start by saying that not all of these are just words, some of...

July 2022

July 17, 2022

This Is It

Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata: personality is easily frustrated. I imagine things could be better...

April 2022

April 05, 2022

Some Words That Matter

Photo by MoldyVintage Photo from Pexels I‏ used to think that things had to be...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

Leaning Forward Again

I vividly remember Jr. High because it was a time of discovery. Almost daily, I...

December 25, 2021

Being with the Divine

(an exert from my book, Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity) In our communities,...

December 19, 2021

Why I Wept for the Victims of Organized Religion

About 3 years ago, I went through a dark night of the soul. 20 years...

September 2021

September 11, 2021

Being and Becoming

In recent years, I have developed a deep kinship with nature and animals. I love...

July 2021

July 24, 2021

Being Brave

It is probably true that mot of what we teach our children is by the...

July 11, 2021

Being with Jackson

This my grandson, Jackson Bennett Holmes. I used to call him J.B., but now we...

July 08, 2021

Being with George

We are currently on vacation in Nevarre, FL. Our online friends, Jason and Brandi...

July 06, 2021

Being with Adventure

Yesterday officially began our vacation when we flew out of Kansas City to meet some...

June 2021

June 20, 2021

Why Being is Enough

I'm working on my next tattoo. A lot of people can't believe I have even...

June 13, 2021

Being Where You Are

Right now, I am sitting on our porch in rural Missouri. It took me a...

June 06, 2021

My Feet Hurt

In a scene from the movie, Forest Gump, Forest is talking to a young women that...

June 03, 2021

Being with my Wife

For the past few months, I have been working 53-hour work weeks. I work on...

May 2021

May 31, 2021

Being with my Bypassing

Thousands of years of a tradition and philosophy and religion have coalesced together to give...

May 09, 2021

How Moms Teach Us to Be

My mother is an incredible woman. She grew up poor with a love for music...

May 05, 2021

Learning to Be

(This is the introduction to my book: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity. It...

April 2021

April 17, 2021

My History of Rejection

Recently I commented to a friend that I have a long history of rejection. For...

April 13, 2021

Being: A Journey Toward Authenticity and Presence

Good News: We have a cover and we have a release date for the new...

April 11, 2021

The I AM in All of Us

There are about 300 instances, in the Bible, where the writers tried to capture what...

April 01, 2021

Being: A Journey Toward Authenticity and Presence

About 2 1/2 years ago, I went through what most would call a dark night of...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

Being and Becoming

“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way, and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step...

March 13, 2021

The Part I Will Never Forget – The Tea Shop

I will never forget the experience I had one night in a Tea Shop with...

March 11, 2021

Hitting Our Stride

Life is full of stops and starts. Sometimes, it seems like we just get going...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Be Where You Are, Be Who You Are, Be at Peace

Truth is a persistent thing. It's found in many different places, spoke by many different...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

Walls Walls Walls

I am currently stranded away from my home because of the snow. No big...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

The Being Journey

I wanted to tell you about what is coming next!...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

The Saga of my Story

The picture is of my grandson, Jackson. Just this week, I got to see...