If you have lost someone you love and are having a hard time or feel stuck, please read this article. I can't promise you a quick fix because there isn't one. Your loved one is gone and nothing can bring them back. But there are some tools I have learned that can help you move forward and provide some relief to your pain.

I am an Interfaith hospital/hospice chaplain, I have attended over 1000 deaths (2019-2022) and provided spiritual and emotional support to large numbers of patients and families. If you lost someone close to you, trust me when I say I know what you are going through.

When people discover I have a web3 crypto business, I get one of two very distinct reactions. They either think it's all a scam and I'm a fool for wasting my time and money 🤡 or they are very curious and ask "How can I learn more about this?" 🧐

So I'm making this step-by-step guide as a resource to share with people who are curious and want to explore crypto and web3 safely. You have already done your research, and you know the risk of investing in crypto is very high, but you believe in the future of this new technology and you are ready to dive into web3.

The first thing I need to say about living sober is that it's fucking hard. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either naive, from another planet, or they are delusional.

Let’s be completely honest, at least in the US where I live, alcohol is woven so deeply into the American fabric, so ridiculously normalized and over-consumed, that if you happen to choose a sober path, you will often feel like a cat along dogs, completely out of place, seeing the world from a completely different reality…

Memes have been around for a long time! But today more than ever, you need to understand some basics about memes. We have OG meme coins that ran to $75+ Billion market caps in the last cycle. New meme coins are tearing to $100+ Million market cap within a month of launch almost every day.

Most important of all, just this month, meme coins launched on Bitcoin! This is the most recognized, decentralized, and secure blockchain of all. This is all possible under a brand new protocol, called Runes.

We saw what meme coins can do on Ethereum and Solana, just imagine the possibilities on a chain whose market cap is $1.25 Trillion! Do I have your attention now? If not then you NGMI.

Are you an active person who wants to try meditation but struggles to sit still? If so, then give this walking meditation a try. In this video, I will take you out on one of my meditative walks to share my practice with you and teach you how you can do this Walking Meditation by yourself.

By spending just 20 minutes a day you will begin to notice increased emotional resilience and stronger peace of mind, and you will feel grounded in your body and a deeper connection to nature.

To begin, have you ever wonderer what it up with the dividing up of the families any time there is big gathering? Church potlucks, community BBQs, even at weddings and family reunions, we all get split up into little groups? If you watch carefully, you will almost notice there is a natural segregation of men, women, and children. Why? As the crowds get larger, more small clicks develop and start to get more specific. Sports fans will huddle around the big game of the day. Foodies will graze the snack table. Why? I do not believe it is for our best to divide in most circumstances, or even for our good. On the other hand, I have found that almost every event or activity is more fun when you include women and children. Diversity in all ways is typically a good thing in my view.

We took this Disneyland photo in January of 2015, right at the beginning of our change. At this point, my family was like a bag of M&Ms sitting on the dashboard in the car on a hot sunny day. We were able to maintain our fresh candy-coating just barely well enough to hold in the melting contents, but any sudden pressure and we could burst. We gave the impression that we were doing great when really we were having hard times at home. After the weekly Bible studies would clear out and all our friends would leave, we would almost collapse in exhaustion from keeping up the act that we were the perfect family.

What does it really mean to be born again? This is of course the key selling point to the gospel that the Christian church declares right? I wanted to take some time and look at this doctrine of regeneration because I believe this is one place the church has exploited and just down right oversold.

I never want to mislead any readers, so let me be direct and clearly state my claim. I believe the current system of American Christianity as we know it today is terribly broken. While there are several elements to this break, I want to focus today on what I believe to be one of the biggest problems: the misrepresentation of the transformation.

Check out this video to learn about FLOP and what we are building!

For Love Of People, is a Nonprofit Organization, in Eugene, Oregon, whose mission is to unite people in an Online Community based on “Love and Respect For All People.”

This world is hard and it will try to break you. Sometimes we find ourselves beatdown and broken, ready to give up. Most days we are strong enough to take the blows, one at a time and able to recover in between lashings. Everybody has good days and bad days, ups and downs. But for some of us, there are those times in life when everything seems to fall apart at once. When that happens, most people don’t survive.

This almost happen to me, but I was spared. I almost lost the my own war on drugs again after years of peacetime. I was able to keep my life patched together just well enough to give the appearance of progress, but it only took a compilation of disasters to put me on my back, hopeless and helpless, close to certain death. Let me tell you the story…

Some memories in life, you know you will have forever, whether you like it or not. A day that regularly haunts me is my 37th birthday. This was the first time in my life that I ever talked to my father. This was supposed to be the day we talk for the first time, cry together, and then live happily ever after. I This was my chance to finally have a father and for the first time not be a Bastard. I have imagined this moment so many times in my life it’s not even funny.

It’s 5am on a Wednesday morning, and like usual, I’m wide awake. Why am I up so early every morning?… prison dreams. I have these terrible nightmares about being in prison almost every night. It used to be here and there, but they have gotten worse lately. I have had them ever since I was a kid and was locked up in my first youth prison at age 13. I am almost 40 now and have not even been arrested in 18 years… but I do time every night.

This time of year can be the hardest to find ways to improve your mental health and boost the overall vibe of your house. For me, it seems no matter how hard I try, after the holidays and the New Year, I find that we are sitting around way too much as a family. My wife and I have four boys and the six of us can get a case of “Cabin Fever” during the Pacific Northwest (PNW) winters that will turn toxic if I don’t address it.

In this article, I will share my experience with the Winter Blues and some tips so you can reset the vibe in your house. This shift will restore your family’s mental health and sense of emotional resilience, and it doesn’t take long before everyone in your house will start to feel better.

The most common metaphor used to explain the phenomenon that you experience when you discover Bitcoin for the first time is taken from Alice in WonderLand, when Alice discovers an entire new world thru a rabbit hole. There really is no better way to describe the curiosity you feel as you venture thru this new space realizing you have almost no frame of reference for this place.

Everything is new or at least has the potential to change. You never see things the same after you take that first trip down the Rabbit hole, and that’s a good thing. I want to practice my writing craft and talk about my journey thru this space the last year and share what I have learned.

*THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE.

I grew up a fairly normal kid, fitness wise, and just slid under the radar of being a fat kid. In grade school, I was usually sporting a pretty nice fat roll with love handles to match, but my mom told me it was just baby fat, assuming I was just husky, and to ignore the kids at school. For the most part, that worked and in middle school, the baby fat finally wore off and thanks to puberty, I started to slim out quite a bit. When I turned 13, I was locked up in a youth camp where I started lifting weights and running long distances. Within a year, I was transformed into a lean machine and loved it. I spent most of my teenage years as a skinny kid, most summers with my shirt off, quite proud of my new physique.

I was not raised in the church but was always taught to believe in God. We occasionally said grace before big meals and prayers before bedtime, but that was about the extent of my religious experience as a child. I never saw anyone reading a Bible, or even owning a Bible or other religious books. We did not go to church accept for a rare occasion near a holiday, or if my mom needed help with the bills. I do remember the church helping out my mom and I a lot when I was a kid with utility bills, rent, firewood, food and clothing, and even toys for me at Christmas time.

This may be impossible but I want to try to go way back into my childhood and tell one of my earliest painful stories. I estimate I must have been about four or five years old because I don’t think I had started school yet. I can see myself as a little boy that night in the early 1980s, with dark brown hair, in an over-grown bowl cut that hung down past my eyes.

In 2003, the number of youth incarcerated in the United States was 96,531. This number should take your breathe away because this is a massive amount of children! To put this into local perspective, this is six times more children than all of the kids in the Eugene 4J School District, which as of today is over 16,000 according to their website. Imagine six times the kids in Eugene all incarcerated! There is good news however, as of 2015 that number has been reduced by over 50% to 48,043. This is an unbelievable accomplishment! This is still far more kids than I want to see locked up, especially considering 73% of those incarcerated in 2015 are charged with non-violent offenses.