Author: Kris Evans

Time

Kris Evans

Time keeps on slippin, slippin… into the future… How true that has become. When I was younger TIME moved too slowly and I was always impatient about how things weren’t happening fast enough. Now I wonder where the day has gone.

Sometimes I find my mind is focusing on constantly racing to get everything done I want to do in what seems like too short of TIME. As crazy as it sounds I feel like my TIME here is fleeting and I will never get finished with everything I want to do, want to see, want to teach. My body is on a schedule of waking up every night at about 3 to go over what is going to happen the next day. Slotting in everything into a schedule so that I will have TIME to do everything. And what happens? The day comes and happens as it is going to happen regardless of my best intentions. Life gets in the way. Continue reading →

Discouragement

Kris Evans

Even after all these years I still get discouraged when I am ready to go into a new venture. I am a firm believer in reinventing yourself no matter how old you are. I have experienced so many changes with age, some good and some not so good. I think one of the biggest changes is still moving forward even when I’m tired or burned out or insecure. I sometimes think of where I would have been 10 years ago if I had taken another path and then I realize it doesn’t matter. I’m on my path right now and I have to remind myself that this is a perfect time. I look around and see other people doing the same thing or having the same ideas and I worry if there will be a place for me. And then I see someone I haven’t seen in a long time, run the idea by them and realize that I am really unique in my own way. Those years have given me the edge to have experienced more, traveled more, met more people and made the mistakes that I hope will help others avoid.
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Forgiveness

Kris Evans

“The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are
practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing
harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad
it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The
trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet
whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal. Instead of
struggling against the force of confusion, we could meet it and relax. When
we do that, we gradually discover that clarity is always there. In the
middle of the worst scenario of the worst person in the world, in the midst
of all the heavy dialogue with ourselves, open space is always there.”

Pema Chodron from When Things Fall Apart

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