beingaboutthejourney

With Election Day almost here, voting is one of the most direct ways you exercise your rights as an American citizen. It’s how you choose who represents you — from local offices to Congress and beyond — and how you have a say in the decisions that shape your community, and frankly, your entire life. […]

Henry David Thoreau believed a life could be deliberately chosen rather than inherited, and that choice required stepping back far enough to see it clearly. In July of 1845, at 28 years old, he built a small cabin on land owned by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson at Walden Pond, just outside Concord, Massachusetts. It […]

We’ve turned life into a checklist. Wake, work, exercise, pay, reply, improve, achieve. Checking each one gives a little pride, but it costs more than it gives. If your life is a checklist, you don’t live it, you measure it. And a measured day is a day you never actually lived, you were controlled. […]

We get up everyday with a plan. Things to do, errands to run. There is comfort in that. It gives the morning a shape, a reason to put our feet on the floor and move forward. We tell ourselves the day will be orderly if we are orderly enough. But order is […]

There are people in this country who have chosen a profession that places their lives on the line every single day to protect you and the country. Police, firefighters, and military personnel just to name a few. Don’t mock them. These are not abstract uniforms or distant institutions, they are neighbors, sons and daughters, fathers […]

Today was special in a quiet way I didn’t expect. I woke up and the memories were just there, waiting, like they had been sitting on the edge of the bed all night. I don’t know where they came from. No photo album, no song on the radio triggered them. They just showed up, vivid […]

Who inspires you? I’ve found that inspiration is not one dramatic lightning strike, it is the quiet company you keep in your head when you have to choose. Everyone carries a small council of people they admire, some living, some long gone, whose example shows up faster than any pros and cons list. […]

Day by day, I’ve come to realize that nothing in this life is truly random. The good days and the hard days, the open doors and the closed ones, they are all stitched together with intention. What once looked like coincidence now looks like guidance. Every delay that made you wait longer than you wanted, […]

There are times in life where we just have to wait. No action, no movement, just waiting. Not the busy kind where you check your phone and make lists to fill the gap, but the still kind that asks nothing of you except that you remain. Modern life has very little patience for it, but […]

Life can be hard sometimes but that’s the way of the world. Times have to get difficult before they get better, and that difficulty is not a sign that you have failed. It is often a sign that something is being worked out in you that could not happen any other way. Grapes are crushed […]

Being About The Journey

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