Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.