A surfing and creative writing blog dedicated to finding my stoke.
It's so easy for us to see when we are using the wrong board. It's so easy for us to see what needs to change or what we need to do differently in surfing, but in the rest of our lives we're equally quick to blame ourselves. What if you have always perfectly fit life all along, but you just needed to start believing it?
There's always that one person in the line-up with a smile on their faces, and the one with a scowl. I realize in the line-up, and in life, you can choose to be whichever person in the lineup. At the end of the day, we're all in the ocean of life, but how we ride the waves is up to us.
Movement and moving, stillness and chaos-the metaphor can be too simple, but life also can be too.
It's taken me practically a year to write this post again. I wanted to write the perfect post. Then I realized I would never write anything thinking like that. Read about why you need to do, instead of doing your best.
The monotony of staying at home can be tough. Spending too much time on our phones is especially difficult. Read 4 ways to balance out the repetition of the New Normal or boost your Work From Home routine.
There is a lot I don't know right now...about how to help, what to do, and how to understand myself in this world. But there are a few things I do know. Here they are.
How do we hold the cosmic and the mundane, the violent and the stunning, the brutal and the profound ?
2020 has presented us with new ways of thinking (which are not so new, new challenges (which have been around for a long time), and a powerful awareness of the need for our participation in the world's improvement.
A poem of reflection: on changing, growing, letting go of pieces of ourselves, and looking towards the bright future. Celebrate every moment.
