there is something about a certain combination of candles, red wine and challenging music that takes me back to that period between year 12 and Mexico... despite everything that I could comment on for that period, it still, probably, was the best few years of my life ( Read more... )

I feel change in the air; I nearly always sense major change sometime before it arrives, and what's more, quite often my internal baromoter is good at reading when it is time to move on ( Read more... )

So the website of the moment is www.carynandross.com ... go and check in out; its funny because everyone who looks at it thinks that I have had a major hand in that; what they don't realise is that although I can be proactive and really organised, really, that is Caryn's job! Of course our wedding is going to rock because she is there driving it. ( Read more... )

I'm back in the US again; again only a short stay to see the family for Thanksgiving, and once again complete insanity. We have done something like 5 states in 6 days, I proposed to Caryn, Greg has had his 21st birthday, Brian has had a gallery opening and the action looks set to continue right up until we leave ( Read more... )

So what actually happens when you are at a cross roads? I've done the rebirth, I have done the crisis of faith, and now I think I am at the most fundamental cross road of my life ( Read more... )

I've spent all day running around a new city; well not actually a new city - hell it has existed in its current form for nearly 220 years, and I have been here plenty of times before - but this time, I am living here ( Read more... )

Stolen from 24_7sublime

I would like everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less.

Ask me anything. Seriously! I can't guarantee that I will give great answers, but I will try my best!

Then I would like for you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

"The secret of contextual thinking is that the whole discloses new meanings not available to the parts, and thus the big pictures we build will give new meaning to the details that compose it. Because Human beings are condemned to meaning, they are condemned to creating big pictures." (Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber ( Read more... )

I haven't really been feeling myself of late; the move, Caryn's being sick, on meds, not in a routine, my change in job, finding my new routine... everything ( Read more... )

I think the thing about the current situation is that I was looking for my old man to make a final stand, show some leadership and set an example. It is funny because I think once this divorce is through in my mind a father/mother relationship will end - with Dad at least - and we will all just becomes individuals. For this reason I wanted just one ( Read more... )