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06/10/2015 — 08/19/2015 06/10/2015 —  Lake Chicot Panorama 03 — Lake Chicot State Park, Ville Platte, Louisiana, March 22, 2015 Each stage of life comes replete with responses To the situations that arise during that stage, That are appropriate to the situation, And appropriate to our stage in life. It is our place to playContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 027”

04/24/2015 — 06/10/2015 04/24/2015 — Union Pacific 6831 01 — Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, March 23, 2015 Everybody wants to “make a difference” And “be happy.” Make a difference doing what? Be happy doing what? What do you want TO DO with your life? What is yours TO DO with your life Whether you want toContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 026”

03/12/2015 — 04/22/2015 03/12/2015 — Scott Creek Sunset 03 — Edisto Beach State Park, Edisto Island, SC, January 29, 2015 You find your life and live it by finding and doing what has life for you. If it brings you to life, DO IT! If it once brought you to life, but you put itContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 025”

01/25/2015 — 03/11/2015 01/25/2015 — Mill Pond Trail 04 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, SC, November 13, 2014 We cannot live any old way and have a life worth living. We have to consciously, consistently, live toward the best we can imagine, Expecting the best of ourselves, Intentional and deliberate about showing others,Continue reading “One Minute Monologues 024”

12/09/2014 — 01/25/2015 12/09/2014 — At the Dock Panorama 01 — Shrimp Boats on Battery Creek, Port Royal, SC, December 5, 2014 All religion is a system of denial. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and all the others that ever have been, are, or will be, are our attempts to adjust ourselves to the status quoContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 023”

November 01, 2014 – December 9, 2014 11/01/2014 — We have to believe in the life we are living, And live it with intensity and with passion. Burn-out is the inevitable result of doing what you don’t believe in— Of living without your heart in your life. We can get by with that as longContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 022”

09/19/2014 – 11/01/2014 09/19/2014 — Life begins here, now. Just as the path begins under our feet. It doesn’t wait until some far off time, Or some far away place. The path is the path to life We will never be more alive than we are here, now. We will be more aware of theContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 021”

08/04/2014 – 09/19/2014 08/04/2014 — We are born packed with potential And born into a family who, and a culture that, determines what about us can stay and what must go—and how we must fit into what awaits us whether that fits us or not. You see the problem. We are separated from ourselves atContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 020”

06/21/2014 – 08/04/2014 06/21/2014 — Our life has a life of its own. We spend our life looking for our life, much like the Zen definition of Zen as a woman wearing her sunglasses looking for her sunglasses. It’s right THERE, but we don’t see it, looking, as we do, for a life we wouldContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 019”

05/15/2014 – 06/21/2014 05/15/2014 — Taking a leafy branch to the babies for lunch, The Alligator Farm Rookery, St. Augustine, FL, May 13, 2014 Joseph Campbell said Sanskrit is the great spiritual language of the world. Sanskrit has its own Holy Trinity, the three things are needed to wake up: Awareness, Being, Rapture—in no certainContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 018”