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If there was a clearing theme for me personally this year, it would be the year of the pixel. More specifically, the year to clear my massive collection of unloved and unseen photos (over 36,000 [...]

“Honestly, if you really think about it, disappointing someone is not the hard part. We unintentionally do it all the time. The harder part is doing it full on – with awareness.” [...]

“Joy. It is the byproduct of clearing. It is the champagne bubbles of being spacious. It is the natural flow that springs out of clarity. It is the fountain of youth. It is unstoppable, [...]

Airplane rides. We’ve all been on them. Unfortunately, what we most focus on these days are the hassles:  the packing, getting through security, making our connections, getting home on [...]

What is one thing that you’ve wanted to accomplish lately (or all your life)? What are the fears that are keeping you from doing it? What is one small step you can take – today – to soften [...]

Do you ever have those special-occasion days that end up unraveling into an emotional heap?  Whether you are in the middle of a holiday season or not, may this excerpt from A Year to Clear [...]

“Teach me old woods to wither glad.”–Danish hymn by Adam Oehlenschläger, 1813 Years ago while on sabbatical in Mexico, my family and I befriended an expatriate Swedish author. Though [...]

“…Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’ The light flows from their branches. And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they [...]

“One could say that going through loss is the great awakener. It is a potential opening if you don’t run away from it. What is usually condemned as ‘bad’ by the mind and [...]

The video below has a great deal of significance for me for many reasons: Though it’s super short, it still manages to showcase some of my favorite photographs of Day of Dead in San Miguel [...]