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The healing power of road trips

In Awe, Growth, Nature by KenJun 28, 2016Leave a Comment

In On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s classic American beat novel, Dean Moriarty looks out over the chaotic buzz of Chicago’s nightlife and tells his adventurous friend Sal Paradise that it’s time to go. Where? They won’t know till they get …

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10 Rumi quotes: Ancient wisdom for today’s happiness

In Growth, Happiness, Mindfulness, Quote by KenJun 12, 20161 Comment

Who is the best-selling poet in the United States? His name is Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian mystic and Sufi master, whose poems have sold millions of copies around the world. Even if you’re not a poetry fan, you’ve …

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5 things I let go of that doubled my happiness

In Growth, Meditation, Mindfulness by KenMay 31, 2016Leave a Comment

When my oldest daughter was three, I took her shopping with me one day. Our grocery store offers free balloons to kids, which is brilliant, because anything that can keep your preschooler smiling for 15 minutes while you replenish milk …

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Can meditation save the world?

In Growth, Meditation by KenMay 10, 2016Leave a Comment

“What you think, you become.” — The Buddha “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7 “He who knows his own self, knows God.” – Prophet Mohammed Perhaps the one thing all the world’s great religions have …

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Some unsolicited advice for my tween daughters (before things get totally crazy)

In Growth, Parenting by KenApr 27, 2016Leave a Comment

Dear girls: Things are about to get messy. You’re only 8 and 10 years old right now, but life moves mighty fast, trust me. You’ll be teenagers in no time, and when that happens, our lives will get a lot …

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What a flock of starlings can teach us about human progress

In Growth, Nature by KenApr 17, 2016Leave a Comment

I’ve recently been binge-watching CNN’s excellent docuseries that chronicles recent American history in decade-long chunks. I finished The Sixties and The Seventies and am finally ready for The Eighties. I’m excited and a little embarrassed to relive the decade during …

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7 spiritual lessons from graphic design

In Growth, Spirituality by KenApr 3, 20161 Comment

My graphic design career began in the late 80’s when design tastes were very…well, graphic. Fascinated with computers, digital images and advertising, I would spend hours laying out newsletters and direct mail postcards using WordPerfect and a borrowed IBM PC. …

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Stop saying “everything happens for a reason” when someone is hurting

In Compassion, Growth by KenMar 24, 2016Leave a Comment

In today’s social media world, cheap advice is not just cheap, it’s free. Every time you open Facebook, there’s another inspiring quote pasted on top of a beautiful sunset or a new article outlining three simple ways to achieve total …

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Why I chose Transcendental Meditation to jump-start personal growth

In Growth, Meditation by KenMar 9, 20164 Comments

When I was a kid, practically every time a music artist accepted a Grammy, he or she would thank the Beatles. Back then, I never really understood why, nor did I really even enjoy the Beatles’ music much at the …

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Adventures with Callie, the cat who plays fetch

In Awe, Growth by KenFeb 27, 2016Leave a Comment

This is Callie. She’s a four-year-old calico cat. She belonged to my mom, but then my mom died and now she lives with me and my two daughters. I was not super excited about inheriting a cat. I like cats, …

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