Life...to the max!

...careful!

A slight warning...

Read this news article from today's Denver Post only if you are needing a bright spot of some encouragement in your forward thinking life.

(I welcomed this in the midst of a good but hectic week of gettig much accomplished in all 8 dimensions of my life...!)

 

Mentoring Mondays...#34:

The Question:

Is there a "right way" to mentor?

The Answer?  Yes.......!

        Sunday evening my wife (of almost 45 years now...PBTG!) and I went to see The Way with Martin Sheen.  Truth be known, tears were rimming these olde eyes often as this powerful story was absorbed into my slightly weary soul.

Mentoring Mondays...#33:

Which is it?

Change or die.

Change and die.

Maybe both?

...impact is on the horizon.......!!!

Eager for this to show up soon.

Watch this now.

Spread the word.

It's time to celebrate one more good work from the "Trueface Trinity" of John Lynch, Bruce McNicol and Bill Thrall from Truefaced.  I've known these good men for years now.  I trust them fully.  It's about time we all got another dose of their deep hearts and brilliant minds.  Can't wait for the launch date of "The Cure"

For some more of John...watch this...when you have the opportunity.

...let's be about celebrating life!  Yup...that be you!!

Get going.......!!!

...hey, Andy B........!!!

 

For some exceptional thoughts,

from a good friend I trust, click here...!

Thank you...!!

As in, thank you very much...!!!

 

Mentoring Mondays...#32:

The alchemy of time...

        Yesterday, Sunday, the 9th of October, 2011, while driving around Denver on some errands in the afternoon, and then picking up my wife at DIA in the evening, I must have listened to a song a good dozen times just for this phrase...

...the alchemy of time.

...ride 'em cowboy!!!

...as we say out it here in the supposedly wild west, that saying for decades now has been the enthused statement to hold on and don't let that critter buck you off!!!  :-)  There are parts of the last 10 days that have seemed like I've been on a bucking bronco...in slow motion.

...shhhhhh...secret list:

        Who knows, way back when, I began to make a secret list of the 100 people I'd love to spend 90 minutes with, if ever possible, and ask them about elements of their own life story that have formed them into who they are today (...kept secret for fun...all have to be living, thus, changes are made from time to time when some step through their own "thin veil"...).

        In September I had the privilege of spending three days with one of those radical souls on that list...a man who has long been a "distance mentor*".  It was creativity on steriods.  I've still not recovered.  I hope I never do.  (...*...to be explained in a future Mentoring Mondays blog post...)

        Thankfully, this distance mentor is now accessable in a way that was not possible before.  He even sent condolences about my nephew's death...which encouraged my olde soul...knowing how in demand he is around the globe.

    Today I got to "spend" 20 minutes with one of those other names earlier today.  Now I, all the more, would like to spend time with this creative man, whom I've long respected from afar.

Mentoring Mondays: ...postponed because.......

As you and I both know,

there is a hard truth that cannot be avoided...

...dying is a part of living...

        Sooner or later, each one of us will be stepping through, as the ancient Christian Celt's called it, "...the thin veil."  We're not here forever...but we will be somewhere forever.  If I may take the risk of saying so...love does win!  :-)

        Toward the end of this past week, my 57yo nephew, Rick Peterson, with great grace, slipped through that thin veil up in Caldwell, ID.  He has been increasingly suffering with esophageal cancer...a brutal way to slip through.  But...at 6:01am...Mountain Time this past Thursday he quietly slipped through...and saw that great light guiding him home.

        Last week, when one of my neices called at that early hour to tell us, my first thoughts were, "He is now home, free of the impairments and difficulties that he has lived with all his life...whole...complete...healed...and fully welcome to be all he was originally designed to be."

        Obviously, such news recreates the schedule for the next few days.  If I've missed alerting any one, I apologize now...just let me know.