birthdays & birthrights

Birth - the act or process of bearing or bringing forth. It is a beginning - a portal to our human journey. Is life measured by benchmarks throughout our lives or is it meant to unfold as we live and breathe? 

Mahala & I a decade ago

As Abraham Lincoln is said to have said - in the end it's not the years in life that count, it's the life in our years that do. 

explosive 2014

We are the destination inside us and beyond us, and the journey along the way all at once, the one who makes it and the one who has already made it. We are still running round the house packing our bags and we have already arrived, even in our preparations; we are alone in the journey and we are just about to meet the people we have known for years...©2014 David Whyte - “The Pilgrim Identity” from the upcoming Readers' Circle Essay, ‘PILGRIM’

So far this new year has been a series of intimate explosive moments of self-realization. 

In manifesting insights into what makes life worthwhile - I trace 2013’s cycle of transformation that brings me to 2014’s new beginnings. 

Ever the pilgrim in search of completion.