Phedippidations

This planet, Earth, is all we have.

You might want to adjust your Fitbit buddy: you traveled much further that you think.

The Solstice is a time to be mindful. It's about being present, but not about stopping time It's about savoring the present without thinking or feeling about it It's about acknowledging all the emails, text messages, tweets, updates, news flashes, alerts, alarms and distractions without engaging with them for a few minutes It's about learning how to interact with the universe around us in a focused, meaningful, thoughtful way. We're standing or sitting or laying down on a planet that is orbiting around it's axis once a day, and orbits a star every year and rises and falls up and down along the plane of a universe every 125 million years that has spinning away from the galactic center

Happy Summer Solstice. This is the first of a 30 day series of short podcasts that I'm calling "Intervals Post Solstice". In today's episode I talk about the solstice itself.

This is my father. Glenn Francis Walker, son of Pius Alexander Walker and Helena Viola MacDonald, my Grampa and Nana. Grampa was the son of Angus B. Walker and Theresa Morrison, my great grandparents, Angus was the son of Peter Walker and Mary MacDonald, my great great grandparents. Peter was the son of Angus Walker who married Sara McPhee on February 9th, 1846 at Saint Micheals Roman Catholic Church on Prince Edward Island, Canada: my great, great, great grandparents. I'm sure that my ancestors beyond Grampa were great. But my Dad? Glenn Francis Walker, whose birth certificate from Boston Lying-In Hospital in Boston Massachusetts certified that Francis Glenn Walker, weighing 8 pounds 3 ops was born at 2:19 PM on May 25th, 1937…my Dad, he's the greatest. I love you tree-tri-so Dad. Happy Fathers Day.

carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

Anthony Bourdain was found dead today, and the world is a little less cool because of it.

My nephew Johnny is my first "guest" on this new format of the podcast Phedippidations. As I move closer to my 13th year of podcasting, it's time to get back to the roots of this "show". Johnny was my absolute last choice to embark on this new venture. We're all doomed.

I went to "THE BOOK OF FACES" lately, where I have a Phedippidations Facebook pagey-thing, and I asked for advice with a creative block I've been suffering. Also, I talk about transcendental meditation vs mindful meditation as if I even know what I'm talking about (hint: I don't). https://www.facebook.com/steverunnerblog

A great book that I'm reading is "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari. I highly recommend this great book about the history of mankind. Also, I contemplate (not meditate) on the benefits that guided meditation has brought me.