Welcome to the Birthday Edition.June 17th ....I begin my 56th trip on the earth circumnavigating around the sun. While turning 56 isn't really a milestone birthday, each year burns a little when I look at my "memento mori" calendar. Each Friday I mark another box off on the calendar and I am about to complete the line of 52 weeks. I have long passed the point where I have more days to live than I have already lived. Looking at life through the stoic point of view, the memento mori calendar is actually a great way to visualize that we have only a limited time to live out our lives and that the choices we make for how we live our lives should be a mindful one. One of intent. It really is a process of waking up to life and making a conscious effort to live life to its fullest. This month I celebrate and reflect. I look with excitement on a life that has had a pretty good story line to it. One that has friends, adventures and laughter to balance out the adversaries, tedium and tears. I am grateful for this life and all that it has been for better or for worse. This month I am going to be a little self indulgent in my featured posts. I have also changed this home page name to "TENKARA CURRENTS". I have used the analogy before of looking at life like the current of the river. The double-entendre isn't lost on me as well with this being a place to see what is "current". I hope that you enjoy this month's post and can also take a moment or two to think about the currents in your own life.
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