The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.” I believe this is because when we are at a place where we think we can’t go on, we are at the point of surrender, where something greater than our own ego can take over. But why do we wait until everything has fallen apart and all our defenses are down before we surrender and allow Nature to…..
One night a powerful storm rolled in over the Big Island of Hawaii, dropping snow on Mauna Kea summit, where winds were measured at an incredible 194 miles per hour. As the storm raged outside, shaking the house and rattling the windows, Stu and I settled in to watch a movie—a documentary on the men who had walked on the Moon. All the Moon-walkers who were interviewed for the documentary decades after their journeys into space, had experienced a major…..