Author Archives: TonyPotter

The quote from one of my meditations this week was: “The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever” (J. Cole). After the initial “holy crap that is terrifying to think of” wore off I started to think about what it really meant. To me it is speaking to theContinue reading “Nothing Lasts Forever”

Recently I have been going to bookstores. Not really to buy a particular book, but because my good friend reminded me how much I really, really love books. I’ve come back with an old hymnal my mother loved, books on writing, and short stories, etc. But my favorite so far has been a children’s bookContinue reading “Skunk and Badger”

I really like music. Really like it. And not just one genre. My music collection looks like a buy one get 100 free sale at Columbia Music. You younger kids can ask your parents about that reference. Of all that music I really do not have a favorite, favorite song, but I do have oneContinue reading “Music”

I don’t do very well when someone tells me to do something. Ask me? Sure. Ask me and say please? Absolutely. But tell me, or worse, tell me and not explain why? Yeah, not so much. In fact, not only no, but now we are arguing. Frustrating, but I have been thinking lately that maybeContinue reading “Perspectives”

I have been up since about 1:30 a.m. as I write this. Not sure why I woke up, but as soon as I did it was clear I was not going back to sleep. So if this does not make sense, chalk it up to sleep deprivation. Normally I do yoga at the Y onContinue reading “Slow Down”

Here’s the thing about asking for help: I used to think is really sucked. Still do to a certain extent, but I am slowly (glacially) coming to realize I have been wrong. Maybe there’s still hope for me. The thing is none of us can do this alone. We need help from time to timeContinue reading “Asking for Help”

This weekend I was pushed into a swimming pool while I was wearing my clothes. It was a surprise that turned out not to be surprising. That probably doesn’t make sense. My point is the time between going from the solid side of the pool to the water seemed like an instant and an eternityContinue reading “The Small Moments”

Yesterday I was thinking about how time flies. Well, actually, I was talking to our office manager about a new phone system, the somewhat shocking price, and how I almost lost a childhood friend because we had a rotary phone and his number had two 9s and a 0 and it just took too longContinue reading “Time”

Our dogs are not the best at meditation. For a while now I have been trying to devote at least 15 minutes a day to meditate. Without fail both dogs choose that time to be as close to me as possible, constantly moving and most likely wrestling or chewing on a bone seemingly made outContinue reading “Meditation”

I saw someone with a t-shirt that said, “Pain is just weakness leaving the body”. Being a long-time sayer of dumb things I can say that is just dumb. I understand the sentiment, but I think it is misplaced. First, pain is not weakness. Pain is a way we know something is happening to us.Continue reading “Pain is not Weakness”