I have been a Doc for 22 years, a Dad for 18 and aspiring to be a Dude for a while now. As a doc, I have earned some titles Osteopath, Emergency Physici...
One biter tonic down one on the lap and ffs keep it short you wordy mfer. We chatted about desire that fickle mistress we can never catch. We know Easy, we keep trying (mostly succeeding) with No Drama. This dude is trying to make 90 min disappear chasing @Beaute Beard to get in the zone for flow. You lot have made a season a memory and embraced the horror that is the passing of time. We knelt for…
I am setting out a peg board in front of each of you. You can put as many pegs in it as you want but you only get one rubber band to stretch around them all. If those edges are tight there is a chance the band snaps. If you put a few pegs close to the middle the bad will not even stand up it will just be rolled over by the lightest marble or soft ball. Set the pegs with a little tension and the…
When there are no clouds the sunrise is a flash of colour then a blue hue. Glimpses, has Venus retreated from the blue will mercury show. Nothing to dazzle the eye no clouds to display glories. Just a few moments of tension the blue expands, the golden orb approaches and the sky will be ablaze the birdsong erupts in full. I could add precision but not beauty to the spectacle. This voluntarily…
Be a bit less like water. It was just an example to help the broken, poor and ferrel. Were we not supposed to flood the pitches and make it like a swim meet. It was a haunting idea about sensing a stimulus moving away like a ripple on a pond or spreading out on offence. Then choosing a response commiserate with the stimulus or choosing the higher ground and allowing the chokehold to pass without a…
The morning is warm and wet. Embers flickered and held flame from last evening. I stoked the fire. The conditions did not warrant this agitation or even more heat but this dude likes a fire with his bitter tonic. As we traverse the shining new road over the ancient mountain we should be grateful that we can band together hold different values and work toward public good. The 8 years since the…
Social creatures that we are leaves a tension between relatedness and autonomy. We can develop competencies in all types of ways and trade those for status or money or both if the are specialised competencies. The baboon alone at the top of the troop with the biggest teeth and the most fearsome biceps has the most stress because they have no relationships just dominance. That stress will knock the…
This dude is “a bit” different. I heard an ex-addict use the term “vibration” to talk about mental and physical energy. He is still a conflicted soul with high levels of energy but he has channels it into advocacy, woodworking and drums. That hit. I try work, research, business, chores, writing and soccer but probably the active engagement is what I am looking for. As he talked he was trying to…
We can reflect on past moments breathing life into them. This power of our mind to relive joys is almost unbounded and allows us to learn. Being actively present “The FLOW state” combines Easy and No Drama, that is us. Make space defend together communicate easy passes. Like ripples on a pond. Those easy passes made for gaps and the shots were on frame and more went in than were saved. Leave…
Some biter tonic, a warm glow spurs from the horizon and I dwell. If I could be like water I would. To seep into the dark places and nourishing the plants and fungus, gather and be a reserve for the farmer or flow into a creek onto a river then the ocean where I could rise as storm or rain and start again. Few of us embrace all the different places, pieces and parts we can play. We cannot rise…
A dead Greek sage Epicurus fretted over family. We are not here without some. As we partner or attempt to form one it exposes raw emotion, aspiration and desire. Family is the simplest relational unit humanity has forged. It is relatedness measurable and mixing, mothers are societal glue and genetic chimeras. We leave our mother they hold onto our genes and literally become a bit of us and their…