Category: Thrive

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Not dead until warm and dead

As the weather gets colder, I start hearing complaints (you will not hear any from me!). One day I found myself standing on a bus stop telling my shivering girlfriend to embrace the wind...

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Your cat may make you lose your fear of death

I knew that! Jaroslav Flegr says that a single-celled parasite in the protozoan family was subtly manipulating his personality, causing him to behave in strange, often self-destructive ways. And if it was messing with...

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Meditation Journal Entry

I thought I’d share a little narrative of my recent experience. I leave the interpretation of it up to the reader. I lay flat on my back, eyes closed, on an inflatable mattress in...

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Catching Zen

I always thought that I knew – in an abstract way, of course, what Zen was. Beauty in simplicity, something about being in the moment… Umm… sparse Japanese interior design… Perfection of form where every detail...

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Best Mats for Practicing at Home

I saw these in use by a Saskatoon Bujinkan group and they were really comfortable to practice on, easy to put away, and once you feel ready to roll on your hardwood floors at...

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DIY Recovering Your Stolen iPhone/iPad

Before Anything Else, check to insure that the “Find My iPhone” App is installed and activated on all your devices, this means that you have signed in and activated your devices Location Services. Step...

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Legendary Doorman, Geoff Thompson

Here’s a man that should be on every martial artist’s must study list. Synopsis of his early life from Amazon: Watch My Back is the story of one man’s search for courage. Depressed, bullied,...