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Community-supported, purpose-driven, gear-lugging vagabond creating content for good. Currently putting time and energy into my newsletter, podcast, and starting a new life chapter down under. 📍 Te Waipounamu South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand

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subtledream newsletter 2024, 26th edition

“It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift — your true self — is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs.” by Thomas Berry, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche open share / musings Yesterday, I...

3 months ago • 10 min read

“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!” by Viktor E Frankl, in Yes To Life, In Spite Of Everything open share / musings Kia ora (greetings), friends and whānau (family), Thank you, Reader, for opening this newsletter and taking the time and curiosity to read what I put out to the world. I send you this compilation with care from Aotearoa New Zealand, for I am here. I am back in the land of the long white cloud, native to the Māori peoples. The feelings and emotions have...

7 months ago • 17 min read

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.” - Carl Rogers open share / musings Greetings, Reader Like most newsletters, this edition is written/created in chunks. At the moment I'm writing this, I'm sitting on a fallen cedar tree (I think) laying across Wildcat Creek on the Kitsap peninsula of western Washington state. The mid-afternoon sun is lighting up the tops of the canopy all around me, diffusing the summer sun into a soft glow here on the forest...

9 months ago • 14 min read

“I have made peace with the things I cannot change. I have the courage to change the things that I can.And I have the wisdom to know the difference.” - Serenity Prayer by Sah D'Simone open share / musings From the indigenous lands of the Shoshone, Bannock, Blackfoot, Crow, Flathead, Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce people, I send you, Reader, my warmest greetings. About a year ago, in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, an absolutely magical, memorable day was unfolding. I had begun that day well...

11 months ago • 14 min read

“Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.”- Osho open share / musings Good morning, afternoon, or evening, Reader! I wish to start with gratitude for you and 438(!) others who receive the subtledream newsletter. It is a humbling and radical feeling each time I craft this publication together. 2+ years into this practice, I can tell you the discipline, the devotion, the...

about 1 year ago • 14 min read

"When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears." by S.N. Goenka open share / musings Dear Reader and friends, It's official - México likes to shower me with excellent adventures, vibrant colours & radical art, culinary yumminess, new cultural & historical depths, and friendliness & warmth in ways that mainstream media has done no justice. My return to this wonderful and at times infamous country in December was immediately met by an agreeable climate,...

about 1 year ago • 13 min read

"Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded." ~ Gabor Maté open share / musings From Oaxaca city, I send you, Reader, my warmest greetings. What a year this has been, for me, likely for you, and certainly for many all around the world. Time certainly doesn't feel linear the more years I live this life. And speaking of life, thank you for riding this journey with me. What a gift of your time and attention. What a privilege, truly, that you would...

over 1 year ago • 14 min read

"Love is having. Desire is wanting. And you can want only what you don’t already have." Emily Nagoski open share Dear friends, 9 years ago today, I was cycling southbound on the Mendocino coast of California with my touring bicycle loaded with life necessities enroute for the Bay Area and reuniting with my friends Susan & Ken at their farm, Pasture 42. I stayed and worked with them for the busy month leading up to Thanksgiving, and it was my first experience slaughtering an animal for its...

over 1 year ago • 13 min read

"Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen." - Tara Brach open share - life update Greetings from Oaxaca City, Mexico! Much time since the previous newsletter, my friends. Life has been full in some of the most beautiful ways possible. I've missed you all in July for last month's newsletter, but here I am, with a double issue especially in the bonus album for patrons and global good news! Looking ahead - the September newsletter shall pick...

over 1 year ago • 14 min read

"Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice." Sylvia Boorstein open share - life update Happy almost-solstice, Reader! With solstice coming in about a week, I found myself tracing back in my memory to the last time I spent the summer...

almost 2 years ago • 10 min read
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