Category: Personal Musings

Put Your Shirt On. You’re Making Me Self-Conscious

fit man without shirt looking over water with mountains in background — How I look but with my shirt on and looking for the nearest donut shop. Photo by KAL VISUALS on Unsplash

Post date August 25, 2023
Tags fitness, health, humor, lifestyle, personal essay

The Curious Case of the Half-Blind Squirrel

half blind squirrel with one good eye under picnic table — Kurt Russell under the picnic table

Post date August 19, 2023
Tags life, nature, outdoors, personal essay, wildlife

Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary

close up of an extraordinary hummingbird visiting a flower for nectar — A hummingbird is an ordinary, extraordinary backyard creature

Post date July 27, 2023
Tags beauty, happiness, life, life lessons, nature, self improvement

Wild Encounters on the Run: Mama Raccoon

Front view of a raccoon with its striped eyes — Beautiful day for a run, Mr. Human. Little hot, but beautiful

Post date July 25, 2023
Tags essay, life, nature, outdoors, raccoon, running, wildlife, writing

Rediscovering Adventure on Two Wheels

front of bike pointed down a nature trail — My trusty steed carrying me down a forest path

Post date July 23, 2023
Tags family, fitness, happiness, health, inspiration, life, life lessons, mental health, self improvement

Flowchart for whether you should run today on a bum leg

Post date March 14, 2023
Tags 10K, 5K, chart, flowchart, humor, illustration, inspiration, run, running, running motivation

The Kindness of Strangers: How a simple greeting can brighten someone’s day

have a nice day with smiley face spray-painted on a brick wall — Have a nice day is more than a simple platitude. It can be an act of kindness.

Post date January 30, 2023
Tags aesop, essay, happiness, kindness, life, personal growth

A walk in the woods

Two women cross creek on stepping stones at South River Falls trail in Shenandoah National Park

Post date July 5, 2022
Tags forest bathing, john muir, nature writing, walk, woods

Pileated woodpecker

Red pileated woodpecker looking into decaying tree stump in forest

Post date June 10, 2022
Tags pileated woodpecker, running journal

William Wordsworth once said that the best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Post date March 31, 2022
Tags kindness, right speech

The meditation of running

Post date March 15, 2022
Tags meditation, running

When you write an original song but keep messing up

Post date February 19, 2022
Tags acoustic guitar, damn it, original song

Embrace silence

Post date February 3, 2022
Tags silence, zen

Don’t be angry. Be Keanu.

Post date January 14, 2022
Tags anger, keanu, personal development, thoughts

Keeping a daily journal

Post date October 15, 2021
Tags creativity, daily journal, jeffrey pillow, journal, writing

This Is Me Being Uncomfortable: October 2021

Post date October 1, 2021
Tags albuterol, anti-lou, anxiety, asthma, asthma attack, ben simmons, blogging, blue jay, books, box turtle, car alarm, chocolate, comedians, covid, crow, daily journal, death, deer, dog poo, dwayne davis, ear hair, flannery o'connor, fox, getting older, ghostbusters, habits, hawk, headache, house centipede, jeffrey pillow, joshua holt, journal, kyrie, life, marigold, milk, morning, mushroom, musings, nature, nba, nose hair, observations, pink blue sky, podcasts, politicians, quotes, ralph waldo emerson, ray bradbury, reading, red dawn, rock n roll, rooster, running, ruskin bond, scott hall, simple living, superheroes, thoughts, waking early, wildlife, wolverine

The snake and the vine

Post date August 8, 2021
Tags buddhism, parenting, right speech, snake, vine, wrong action, wrong perception, wrong speech, zen

Lovesick for you

Post date June 11, 2021
Tags anniversary, artwork, drawing, father's day, love

No, I wasn’t hacked

Post date June 10, 2021

10 Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes still relevant today

Martin Luther King speaking to crowd at a civil rights march on Washington — Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash

Post date January 14, 2021
Tags martin luther king, mlk, quotes

Overcome Fear and Unleash Your Potential: A Guide to Using Fear as Motivation

overcome fear — Learn to use fear as motivation. Don’t let fear stop you in your tracks. Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash.

Post date December 29, 2020
Tags anxiety, fear, motivation, personal growth, self-improvement

A zen apprentice walks into a bar

Post date October 8, 2020
Tags blog, blogging, daily blog, joke, zen, zen humor

Pandemic beard progression

Post date July 29, 2020
Tags beard, beard growth, coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, drawing, pandemic beard

The real reason I left Facebook

cell phone with Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter apps glowing on screen — Social media apps. Photo by dole777 on Unsplash

Post date July 9, 2020
Tags facebook, social media, twitter, why i quit facebook