by xandyblog | Jul 7, 2018 | inspire, jax boy, reach
Five years ago on my 50th birthday, I was living a life fraught with contradictions. In Colorado, but not the town I loved. Working, but not in the industry I loved. Living a life I was choosing even as I knew some things were deeply unaligned. My dad’s health had...
by xandyblog | Sep 8, 2016 | jax boy, metta
sometimes we are allowed to see the passing of time. today, in day 11 of my self-directed metta practice I started with exactly where I am. Mostly simply because I don’t know of any other place to be. (small lol there) earlier, I saw a sweet selection of some...
by xandyblog | Jul 30, 2016 | inspire, jax boy, learn
Jax is now more silver, grey and white then caramel and black… this is okay. my roots are grey and silver, too! I see my feelings around this as an acceptance of how life works, the cycles and seasons of all, from birth to youth to older age, wisdom and the...
by xandyblog | Mar 20, 2016 | jax boy
honoring the death part is so much easier for me than honoring the “dying” part of the process. even as i finally wrote that i had to contradict myself, because on a deep level i know we are *all* dying every day after moment we are born. simply, we...
by xandyblog | Dec 20, 2015 | create, jax boy, learn, people
a pair of jeans here. a shirt there. that belt that went with the perfect outfit. i don’t know about you, however, i can confess to having taken over a few items of clothing from the men i’ve loved and known. my dad’s blue, black and grey classic flannel Pendleton...
by xandyblog | Dec 13, 2015 | amaze, jax boy, learn
right now i have the most loving pup ever sleeping sweetly in my lap. he has his paws hooked lightly over my thighs and his head in my lap. he is snoring lightly, completely asleep and trusting while being held by me. every once in a wile there is a twitch or deep...
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