I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinkin’ Changes…

Version 1982 Bernal Heights, San Francisco “He looked over his face in the mirror, checking his shave by running his hand across his cheek, chin, and neck. Then he took out his toothbrush and buffed up that wide grin of his. In-between strokes he kept practicing his smile.” Noel Sanderson from Highway Home I […]

Ain’t Nothing Changed…

“Bingo brother, and you just watch yourself ’cause you can turn one year into ten just like that.” Crow snapped his fingers. “I swallowed a decade in the blink of an eye.” “That’s a long drift, man, a long time.” Highway Home Momentum comes in every size and every color. You get […]

A World of Change

“That everything changes is the basic truth of existence.” Shunryu Suzuki We do great harm to our lives when we surround it with worn out old stories. Nothing stays the same. Things are not fixed but rather in a state of flux. We have a lot of change going on in our world. […]

Everything Can Change in an Instant

. “The Last Chance” had a neon sign hanging out front. The bar had been there a long time. Ceiling fans twirled aimlessly and easy. Older patrons were smoking and seated at the stools. Two men tossed a few darts at a bull’s eye, while two old gals sat at the corner of […]

Can You Spare Some Change….

In mindful awareness we have the opportunity to get beneath the layers of adaptation and enhance the possibility of change. Dan Seigel from The Mindful Brain All of us have our own story, our own narrative, memories we recall and use to extract lessons to organize our lives. It is common to my experience […]

The Art of Change…My Mind is Made Up…

How fictional characters change in Highway Home and Bankrupt Heart. Neuroplasticity is a term to describe how we build connections in our brains. We can build connections by physically moving our bodies and we can build connections simply by thinking. Old thinking tends to travel down familiar neural highways. New thinking tends […]