“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” (Marcus Aurelius) A day after hearing the painful news that a relationship I had for the past year filled with joy, adventure, spirit, goddess and wilderness had ended, I learned of the passing of a very dear friend. Later that week I attended his Celebration of Life in Lumby BC. Words alone are always inadequate as a means of expressing the depth of such a...

  Each of us owes a death. This may at first sound a bit morbid. But in fact is illuminating, freeing and empowering. The acceptance, even better a personal experience or confrontation with, one’s own mortality is the single most powerful and illuminating experience one can have. But more importantly, how we respond or react to the realization of our own inevitable mortality, how we integrate this knowledge, awareness or experience...