The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

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One of the most often used phrases people throw around is “forgive, but don’t forget.”  While many are champions of applying this to others in their lives, this is somewhere many of us fail at when it comes to ourselves. What do I mean by that?  We are good at forgiving but forgetting when others do wrong by us, but not so good at this with ourselves.  When it comes to our own mistakes, errors, stupidities and such, we are

Do not let them win

Do not let them win. Who are they?  They are the people who are against us.  They are the people who are working all the time to do whatever they can to change how we live, and more – to have us live in fear. This is not just about the horrid people who would set off bombs in public and murder innocents.  This is about the world in which we live, and our increasing willingness to sacrifice how we

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I want to walk my own path, but there are multiple goals I want to achieve.  How do I choose? While it is possible to head towards more than one goal at a time, I find it often necessary to prioritize.  Sometimes this is purely organizational, sometimes its to prevent putting the cart before the horse. An important thing we need to acknowledge and take into account before this discussion goes much further – Pathwalking is about the path.  The

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If Pathwalking is about choosing a direction and walking a path, what do you do when there are multiple goals you seek? I have been perplexed by this very question pretty much all of my adult life.  And when I was younger, this actually tripped me up frequently.  I wanted to do and be different things that were not necessarily congruent with one another, which made my choices even harder. For a long time, I was an expert at explaining

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Is there anyone who does not want freedom in their lives? Don’t we all want to be free?  Free to do what we want, free to live how we want, free to explore this world and love and laugh and find peace and happiness?  Doesn’t nearly everything we choose have to do with having freedom? Pathwalking is an expression of freedom.  Freedom of choice, freedom from oppression and a dull, pointless existence – freedom is part of why I want