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We’re Dancing on the Edge of 2025
My Taoist Teacher Taught Me This Grounding Practice
Is Your New Year Already Hexed? Ready to Split Apart?
Bringing Love and Intimacy Into 2025
Zhuangzi’s “Tao of Tinsel” Guide to Untangling Holiday Havoc
Sitting With the Frustration And Rage of Others
How Ice Hockey, Freestyle Skating, and Ancient Zamboni Wisdom Reveal Life’s Secrets
Collisionable Opportunities With Sentient Beings
Three Intoxicating Flow Moments
The Thin Line Between Justice and Chaos
I Was Struggling To Figure Out Who I Am
when folks throw shade on your game
How to Win At Life By Letting Go of the (Inner) Fight
He Claimed To Be a Spiritually Enlightened Bodhisattva
Are You Dancing with the Devil?
Is Lao Tzu’s Quiet Rebellion Speaking To You?
Can a Rebel Translator Truly Capture the Tao?
My Life Hack For The Crazy Times We’re In
This I Ching Hexagram Really Spoke To Me
Needing to Embrace Your Inner Recluse?
ZENTAO® and the Rhythm of Life
Thanksgiving With Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Zhuangzi
Is Your Waning Health Self-Inflicted?
Bringing Quiet Armor To Ignorance
My Lentils and Peet’s Coffee Adventure
She Hurled a Racial Slur My Way
My Taoist Approach to Amplifying Human Connection
Is There Meaning In Life’s Messy Elegance?
When Life Becomes a Pain In The Neck…..
I Like to Connect With Lots of People
Is Death the Ultimate Life Teacher?
When You Don’t Know What To Say
When Fear Becomes Your Teacher
The “Mysterious Pass” of Status Quo Rebellion
How to Sit Tight Amid The World’s Mayhem
Election Day: How to Process What’s Next
Buckle Up and Brace for Impact
One Woman’s Nomadic Search for Home
No Due Process in the Digital Age
Is Your Inner Light Switch On?
My Imaginary Therapy Session with Psychotherapist Mark Epstein
Election Jitters? Try This Herb
Are You Comfortably Uncomfortable With What’s Ahead?
Are You Seeking What’s Already Within?
Taming Your Inner Wilderness…Conquering Life’s Inevitable Transitions
What I’m Learning About Mortality at 61
What Is Your Human Energy Currency?
My Obsession With Peak Energy and Expansion
Letting the Fish Fry Without Poking Them
Capturing Stillness In Today’s Chaotic World
Is Letting Go a Radical Act of Transformation?
Kayleigh O’Keefe on the Transcendent World of Plant Based Medicine
The Underground Path to Freedom
Finding Wisdom in the Eye of the Storm
My “Mise-En-Place” Writing Routine
A Novel Resonance of the Spirit
What My Favorite Fine Dining Restaurant Taught Me About Life
A Stranger Shouted At Me While I Was Riding My Bike
Dancing In Rhythm with the Infinite
Is Ignoring Your Life Calling the Ultimate Self-Betrayal?
The “Addition By Subtraction” Lifestyle
Is Uncertainty the Key to True Clarity?
Is Suffering the Only Path to Real Freedom?
When The Storms of Life Become About a Cocktail
Are You Fighting What You Ultimately Can’t Control?
Kert Lenseigne's Soulful Encounter With Form and Emptiness
My Confessions On Being Deliciously Weird and Wonderfully Cuckoo
What If We All Slowed The F*** Down?
Journaling as a Pathway to Life Clarity
Can One Find Mindfulness Amid Urban Noise?
We Live In a Bisy Backson World
The Zen Master and the Modern Stoic
Are Books Valuable as Interlocutors?
The Tao of THE…(Ohio State University)
Has Your Life Become a Trapeze Act?
Harvesting Taoist Bliss on South Pearl Street
What a Biblical Fig Picker Can Teach Us About Courage and Compassion
A Friend Just Shared a Sobering Thought With Me
A Chocolate Taoist in a Sea of Vanilla
My Intoxicating Rhapsody With Taoism
How I Transform Human Connections Into Kindred Spirits
The Art of Full Immersion With The Tao
A Date With the Mystical Power of the Jujube
When Zhuangzi Met Joseph Campbell
Why I am Obsessed With The Tao
Are You Simply Being Nice For Love and Approval?
When You’re Utterly Intoxicated By Numinous Experiences
Sculpting Your Inner Greatness
What If You Saw a Wolf Spider?
curious as to what the tao is?
How to Embrace a Polymathically Fueled Bougie Lifestyle
What Can Eastern Philosophy Teach Us About Volcanic Eruptions?
Defying Age with Strength and Mindfulness
Is Deep Work the New Life Hack?
Zen and the Art of Roarkian Rebellion
My Life as a Philosophical Enigma
The Year I Gained Enlightenment By Shaving My Head
Soaring Beyond the Expectations of Others
Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline in Taoist Speak
Does a Potential Trump Presidency Have You Itching to Leave the U.S.?
Living in a Capitalistic Maelstrom
When There’s No, “Somewhere Else”
Why I’m Now Living With Greater Urgency
What if Your Wildest Dreams Were Reality?
Deanna Thomas’ Soulful Journey to Simplicity and Mindfulness
I Was Unhoused For Nearly 8 Months
These Two Philosophers Often Chatter In My Head
Are You Holding Your Cup Too Tightly?
When The Ground Is Shifting Beneath You
What If You Quit Trying To Control Life?
How to Find Freedom and Fulfillment
What If You Stopped Wandering?
Coming to Grips With Our Life Purpose
Dancing In Rhythm With Disorder
From Open Book to Strategic Master
Encounters With a Troubled Soul
Inner Compass or External Noise?
Freedom as a Radically Taoist Path
The Careful Art of Holding Your Tongue
Are You in a Money Slow Cooker?
taoist wisdom on clearing headspace to capture the flow
Can a Fusion of Progressivism and Eastern Philosophy Redefine Our Future?
The Spiritual Symphony of Gongs
My Cuckoo Life as a Nomadic Minimalist
I’m Dating Again … Aww Shucks, It’s Just a Fantasy
coloring outside the lines like a non-conformist
Wanderlust: My Path to Finding Intimacy in Purpose
How to Groove Your Way to Taoist Bliss
The Tao of Getting the Wind Knocked Out of You
The Art of Overcoming Financial Hardships
What My Catholic School Experiences Taught Me About Taoism
A “World Meditation Day” Bounce Back to Center
Are You Brave Enough to Dance with Chaos?
Why Do I Keep Seeing The Number 1 Repeated?
Can’t Ya Just Breathe Deep and Chill Out?
Is The Rapper Tech N9ne the Second Incarnation of Lao Tzu?
Zhuangzi’s Dialogue With The Cicadas
Reflections On My Confrontation With an Angry Goose
The “Vitamin C” Chronicles of a Chocolate Taoist ™
Stalking Grocery Store Aisles With My Philosopher Friends
a return to an analog existence
An Uncomfortable Conversation With Unexpected Insights
Is Harmony Achievable in a World of Conflict?
Legs In One Direction, Heart In Another
How I Found Inner Strength Amidst Brokenness and Being Unhoused
The Enlightened Palate: A Taoist Tale of Culinary Delight
Surfing the AI Wave With Rhythm and Flow
Lemons, Stoic Smirks, and Taoist Tranquility
smelling salts and how i’ve choreographed an awakened state
Harnessing Nature’s Hints Through The Doctrine of Signatures
Stumbling Through Enlightenment: My Sacred Polestar Journey Illuminated
How My Popcorn Obsession Symbolizes Taoist Living
Philosophical Mixology: The Cocktail Party of Mohists and Objectivists
Marbles as a Playground For Wisdom
When The Chocolate Taoist Meets Racial Bias and Bigotry
Certainty's Outcasts: Why Saying 'I Don't Know' Is a Radical Act
The Artificial Intelligence Collision Course With Taoist and Stoic Wisdom
the silent wanderings of a chocolate taoist
Prowling the Path Less Trodden
Why I Shrugged to The World of Grind
My “Not So” Crazy Tendency to Want to Wander
The Tao of Navigating the Randomness and Unpredictability of Life
How To Find Peace In Discomfort
When Epicurean and Taoist Wisdom Becomes a Lived Experience
Ralph Alan Dale and The Great Integrity
Surviving 164 Sleepless Hours In Vegas