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Reaching the Summit 2:13 AM
To almost come to the end only to discover beyond the peak is yet another. I feel a bit let down at this false summit, but in reality it isn’t that bit of a surprise. Turning around to view my route I do swell up with ah and pride on the distanced traveled. Broken open…
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Step in
This week I related so much to that phrase of you never get over it, you just get through it. When you realize you have no other option, the next door waits.
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Preparing for University
Yesterday was a huge step for my son Bob! He’s graduating from high school this spring, and in the fall he’s off to the University of Life in his 1983 Chevy G20 van he just bought! He’ll be living in the van and traveling across the states doing seasonal work and seeing the country. As…
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12:41 AM Train Departed
it’s her train even if you think not you indeed will pay a price with or without cause no time for repairs you will eventually be tossed she looks the other way as she greets a new passenger you crash roll and fall further and further down the roar of the engine fades you pick…
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A Good Day
It was a good day. Sam, my 1968 camper, came home from having his gas tank lined due to rust. Sucks getting old and oh how can I relate. The great Great Spirit is shining on him though with some love here. I just picked up Sam at the end of last year and he’s…
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Time for therapy
No insurance card needed. Are you ready? Here we go. Stop and touch the bark of the trees. Stand and be silent. Tell the trees how grateful you are for all that they give. Close you eyes and feel the energy from your hand on the tree down to Mother Earth and across the…
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Question
How come it’s easier to write out our feelings to the whole world to read, but every day we hold them tightly to our chest when we are with those who love us? A few weeks ago I met up with an old friend I hadn’t seen for over 20 years. I did something I…
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I’m Ready
Where would I go Who cares Out Fresh New Adventures from days past Young and dumb Who is the fool So many things wished changed Now more of the same Not too late Still can run Play Kids, dogs, debt, income, insurance…asked every day Happiness? Connection? Let’s look at the list You must do this…
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Fez goes to church for the first time!
Just a Whole lotta Fun: 51 and I still enjoy the shit out of listening to Led Zeppelin II and doing donuts in the church parking lot!!! * Note: no Christians were harmed by this momentary lapse of reason
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Heart Sutra
I learned of the Heart Sutra last week in a group meditation at a sangha I attend from time to time. It struck my heart with loving light and makes me feel safe. Thought I’d share. Gate gate paragate parasamgate Bodhi svaha! Going, going, always going on beyond. Always going beyond. Blessing! Gone, going,…
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I Did It
Okay, I did it. I joined Weight Watchers online. I’m tired of this extra fat I’m carrying around. I’m weighing in at 196.6 and my goal is to get down to 170. I’ve lost before using WW and know it will work again. The tracking of points seems to do the trick. No more shoving…
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Tears
1:45 AM. I just had one of those cries that just bursts out. I don’t try holding it in because I know it has its purpose and needs to come. I do that cry where you actual whimper like a baby and the tears gush. I let it come. I let it flow. I know…
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It’s a Dance
From the ash comes fire and smoke trumpets blare as the drum beats from the heart a healing occurs I rise with the smoke then jump on an ember as the glow almost burns out I’m a firefly dancing with good and bad happy and sad life and death black and white day and night…
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An encounter with a couple of eggs
Little shells in your egg – won’t kill you. Little shells in your egg – won’t kill you. Little yoke on the stove – won’t kill you. Little yoke on the stove – won’t kill you. ..repeat… Lighten up my friend and you won’t be blue❤️ Lighten up my friend and you won’t be blue❤️…
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Sam I Am
The kids were excited as they ran over to meet Sam. “This is so cool”, my son Bob said. “This flooring has to go” – from Allie. We were all pumped up and ready to drive him off to the repair shop to get some new tires. I pulled up on the choke, put it…
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Recipe for a Sh!t Week
It’s Saturday morning and I am just thinking about my sh!t week. At least that’s what I chose to think of it every day starting from Monday right up to Friday night. Uggh…when you start seeing your nonsense it’s a tad hard to handle. Sometimes it much easier to fly blind with no clue. Anyway…
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Once you go Fez you never go Back
This is Fez a 2005 Scion xA. I didn’t even know what a Scion xA was until the day I took my daughter Allie out car hunting for her first car. She was dead set on learning how to drive on a manual, even though I told her they are a pain in the ass. …
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Bob Wells – Living in a van
I haven’t posted in quite some time, but all seems to be moving according to my soul’s plan. I’m not beating myself up as much and joy and content are growing and growing. I had a good summer hiking and even got to do a cool backpacking trip up to Devil’s playground on the back…
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Bubbling UP.
There is something coming from within and working it’s way up. Slowly but surely. It’s calm, safe, and reassuring..like this is all good and you are on your way. For me this a new feeling. I guess I shouldn’t say new. When I was young living in the country everyday was a bubbling up day.…
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Met an Angel yesterday
The man she came in with didn’t hold the door for her and even came through first. I frowned as I watched. It didn’t seem to phase her. They ordered and sat down. Suddenly a man entered dirty and hair in disarray. The other two men I was with and myself looked the other way…
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Missing my Dad
Came across this picture tonight of my dad and the tears started rolling down my face. Feeling Sad and so much Love…
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Strawberry Moon
1:50 AM and just finished meditating with the strawberry moon shining on my face. I couldn’t resist. Such an amazing universe we live in. I couldn’t help thinking how it must feel to be on the moon and looking out and seeing earth. Oh how I wish to have been one of those astronauts. We…
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Hope
And then out of the corner of my eye I thought I felt hope sneak in. I chose to not look directly in fear of her vanishing in a flash. She’s here and that’s all I care. My body starts to warm, my heart breaks a small smile, and the light from within begins to…
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Take me to Church or Not
I’ve been thinking more and more about guilt and how society stuff seems to sneak into our conscience and before you know it you’ve been sold something you never really wanted to begin with. One example for me was attending church. As I started to attend more frequently I started having these feelings on…
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Soul encounters at the Gym
Within the last 2 weeks I had these 2 Soul Connections at my gym: Middle Aged Man After my Shamanic intro class on Saturday night I went the gym. I was all fired up cranking tunes and just hitting it. At one point a man came up to a machine next to me with a…
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Crazy Train
Crazy Brain – Crazy Train. Have you ever tried just staying a few steps of your crazy brain? It’s like this dark shadow you can actually feel breathing down your neck. It’s like a huge black cloud following you ever where whispering in your ear things like – fool, don’t, stupid, give up, ugly, why…
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5 Marriage tips from a Divorced Dude
Don’t take it for granite that just because you love the other person that all is good. A marriage like anything else you value needs to be a practice you do every day. In order to improve and grow you must practice, practice, and practice. Words are “okay” but showing via actions always trumps…
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Canceled the $1,495.39 Furniture Order
Some of you may be wondering what I was thinking in the first-place ordering $1,495 in new furniture when I’m in debt? Oh ..my my my. Consumer impulse at its finest sprinkled in with some society norm crap. For some reason, I woke up one day and realized my mother was going to be spending…
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Depression
The only expertise I have on this topic is I get depressed. Yep! Okay now that that is out of the way here we go. TEN WAYS TO COUNTER DEPRESSION Do Ugly Yoga Even when my yoga instructor, Jody, dims the lights my yoga poises are still ugly but who really cares. When I first looked…
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Keep Rising
I’m coming off a 24 hour low and thought there are probably a lot of other folks who experience this type of thing so why not share. To paint a picture my very lows consist of going to bed and putting a pillow over my head. It’s like a cave all quiet and dark. It’s…
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Adjusting
I’m learning as I grow that it’s okay to adjust along the way. Prior to this I’d commit to something and that was that. I’d follow it through no matter what. No matter if it still didn’t resonate with my soul. I just won’t do that anymore. This blog is a great example. It started…
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Facebook and The Election
I posted the following on my Facebook page the other day and a lot of people could relate: “I’m grateful for all of my Facebook friends who HAVEN’T shoved their presidential candidate or political views down my throat. Thank you : ) Happy Friday!!!” It just amazes me that some of my friends can’t figure…
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Getting all warrior like
Facing the Shadows I’ve been doing a lot of soul type work. Lately though I’ve noticed something was missing which meant time to focus and remain open. In one of my journal exercises I had a vision of myself hanging off a cliff with a river running underneath me. I thought about this and thought…
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Love is the oneness behind all.
Love is the oneness behind all. We forget this on our journey because we have been domesticated by such things as politics, religions, governments, and consumerism. Your political party is wrong – mine is right. My religion is the only way. I must save you. It’s disrespectful if you do this. This is my country…
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What’s truly behind that $DEBT?
Curious It’s 1:42 AM as I draft this entry. I couldn’t sleep and started to think about everyone who went or is going down the path of paying off debt. Out of all those folks what else was going on in their life when the decided that process. Was it just a desire to focus…
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Why name a blog Faded Jeans Living?
I’ve just been a blue jeans and t-shirt kind of person. You know that person up on the stage like The Who just rocking it…I Wish!! (Yes I’m a huge Who fan) There’s something about putting on an old pair of faded Levi’s that just works! The whole world and all issues seems to be a…
Faded Jeans Living
By Dwight Hyde
Faded Jeans Living 
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