Artwork by Bruce Zboray www.bruce-zboray.artistwebsites.com
Whenever I eat anything, I always say, "Please bless this meal." I say this out loud, or I say it in my mind. I imagine sparkly light in and around the food. It takes only 3 seconds.
Could you explain what Flow Kakou means?
Absolutely. Flow Kakou is my non-profit, my 501c3. We’re based in Hawaii. The title Flow Kakou – I took the word “flow” from the Buddhist definition of balance. The presence of both yin and yang at the same moment.
“Kakou” in Hawaiian means “everything.” To the stars, to the sand, to the water, to the people, to the animals, to the grass, even to the little bugs that we hate – that’s all Kakou.
Flip Flops
"Flip Flop I was taking a bath," I think that is the song.
Or is it "Splish splash I was taking a bath"?
I think this was the song.
Hi, it is summer and it is hot.
A lot of humidity in the day here today.
I went out there to do some yard clean up.
We had a really bad storm here in Newtown, CT.
It was actually a tornado a micro burst or macroburst or something like that.
There are branches down everywhere.
When Bruce and I were first married, we discovered Jones’ Family Farm, and started a tradition.
Each October we’d go to the farm and pick out a huge pumpkin. Then we’d bring it home, and work all weekend to make pies (usually 9) and loaves (usually 6).
Sometimes, we’d make pumpkin cookies or pumpkin pancakes (not a big hit). We’d cook the seeds. Then we’d distribute the pies to my parents and my brother Mike, Bruce’s parents, aunties, neighbors, etc.
I’d always bring some in for the teacher’s lounge at Second Hill Lane School.
In our home, whenever someone sits down to eat anything, someone else in the home sits down too, just to keep them company.
Not necessarily to make conversation, or eat something too, but just to be with them.
A long time ago, I worked with someone who came from Taiwan. We were talking about lunch, and he said, “People should not eat alone” – this was a deep and fervent part of his up-bringing.
Hello everyone. This is John and Cindy with Heart Speak. We’re here with Chris on the Intrepid on June 24, 2024, with Dr Jordan Metzl who just finished the most phenomenal Iron Work workout. Chris, how are you doing today?
I am doing excellent. I am very happy that John and Cindy came down here. My name is Chris Vichiola from Newtown, CT. As John said, I am on the Intrepid on June 24, 2024 with Dr. Jordan Metzl’s Iron Strength workout.
I like to doodle. With an extra fine black pen on a piece of ordinary white paper.
The black ink is so stark, yet so controlled, so elegant because the line is so finely precise.
Doodling is one of earliest ways I remember to cope with frustration, with worry, with stress. It relaxes me.
There’s something about setting pen to paper that feels like raw creativity, pure play – no agenda – no picture in mind – just giving myself over to the moment.
There’s nothing like doing nothing.
I feel liberated, carefree, as if all responsibility is paused, and I am placed in a state of open wonder, able to just be.
Some may find it totally boring, perhaps a waste of time – not me!
My imagination is piqued, and ideas appear, as if clearing away everything that was blocking them. My senses are more, well, “sensitive,” magnified. So, I see and hear beauty around me more easily.
I love this memory.
Artwork by Bruce Zboray www.bruce-zboray.artistwebsites.com
The children were small, our boy 5 and our girl 8. We went to Newport, Rhode Island for a day. The highlight of the trip was the Cliff Walk.
It’s a stone pathway in back of the mansions about a mile long.
You’re staying home.
You’re washing hands.
You’re drinking water.
Now what?
Are you still anxious?
Do you realize the entire world is now focusing single-pointedly on well-being?
Everyone in their own way.
Vast numbers, hidden, like stars in the sky in the daylight.
The doctors and nurses and researchers in their way.
The caregivers in their way.
The people of all religions in their way.
The light-workers in their way.