The Week Ahead
To Hope, With Hope on a Journey of Hope – My Perspective on my Mom’s Origin Story
My mom's origin story began in a small town in southern Italy called Castellaneta in 1957. That's where her and her sister were born to Nicola Galatone and Giuseppina Ripa. Nicola (my Nonno) and Pina (my Nonna) were a tinsmith and a seamstress, respectively. Life...
Energy and the importance of understanding our relationship to it. Hope without a plan is not good strategy.
This past week I've been doing a lot of thinking about the concept of energy. Energy, in the context of what I am looking to discuss is essentially the thing that gives us an ability to do something, like thinking, walking, talking and riding a bicycle. A more...
Pain, Resistance, Suffering, Why and Hope
I believe those who practice mindfulness or meditation will not be shocked by the contents of this post. I for one could really benefit from a bit of the former, the latter, or both and yet I've struggled for years with sustaining any forward momentum with either...
The link between Distance, Thoughts and Feelings
As I got off my bike this morning and took a minute to upload the ride on @strava, I chose to take a sneak at my “progress” since the wheels fell off the bus a number of weeks back. I knew I had ridden 60km yesterday and 20 something this morning, but somehow the...