GERALD GARTH

I learned very early on the importance of getting up and getting around. Catches in your back and Charlie horses are not the way. We’re not designed to stay in one position all day long. Taking regular breaks to stretch not only reduces stiffness, but reduces stress. Tension and tightness is not cute and we all know stress is a killer. Try to take a relaxation break for a moment or two every so often throughout the day. We often get so tied up in our daily schedules that we

In this busy city, people are always coming and going, moving here and there, trying to establish some sense of sanity. Whilst moving to and fro, many people’s heads are so glued to their phones and iPods and iPads that we forget what it is to look up. Literally. Veering into other pedestrians, bumping into trash cans and lightposts. I even had to yell out to a woman as she was so enthralled with her cell phone she was about to walk into crosswalk-- while traffic was moving

In this time of overnight success and being a baller and Facebook famous and all that, many think that there’s all there is. Many of us will get discouraged when we look at our lives in comparison to other people’s lives. This reminds me of how important it is to be reminded, to remember. (I actually feel my next series being born as we speak) For one, when it comes to recognition, we equate acknowledgement to validation. So many of us aspire to be “famous,” to be rememb

Sometimes you don’t realize how something so simple can be so necessary to be reminded of. And generally, aren’t the basic things in life that we need to go back to? Think about it: the things that are best for us and we don’t do, we know we should be doing them. Getting enough sleep, being nice to people, eating well. We know these things, we just don’t do them. But you may say, “We may forget this other stuff, but how can we forget to breathe?” Well, of course, you’r

How many of us have tried things and regretted it? How many of us have not tried things and regretted it? Fear is a monster. Fear will debilitate you and then regret will sweep in. Funny, huh? No. I thought not. Sometimes in life we just have to go for it. You’ve always wanted to dance? Start dancing! Always wanted to get fluent in German? Glückwünsche! Now is the time. Sometimes, like the old folks would say, “Ain’t nothing to it, but to do it.” What are we afrai

As Byron Katie says, “Don’t believe everything you think.” So how do we change the way we see things? It’s part of the human condition that we come upon challenging moments when it feels as though the people in our lives, even life itself, are beating us down. Maybe it’s a specific situation or relationship that wearing us thin. But, the first step in deciding what to do with something is choosing how to be with it. Perspective can be defined as “the interrelation in whic

What I’ve learned in 30 years is that everybody is different and just like everyone is different, everyone’s dreams are different. Some people dream in black and white, some people dream in straight lines, and some people dream vividly and colorfully-- outside of the lines and even off the page. Now, this isn’t to say black and white and straight lines are a bad thing. Structure is necessary for life, but so is fulfillment. Many of us aspire to more than just what society or

Capacity I see in me that my capacity goes to eternity in what I feel for you. My love, my life, my thoughts, my doings all express how I'm real for you. I'm full and overflowing, swelling, never-ceasing, my love for you is Ever-increasing, swollen like rivers, spilling over and growing over. Its power is stronger than an ocean. The power of love knows no limits. Its capacity knows no end. My love peaks mountains and pits seas. Encompasses the skies and out numbers the sands

I’m approaching a birthday soon and I was thinking, “I feel the best I’ve probably felt in life.” Looking back at my 20s, I’m like, “Dude, you thought you were living. You weren’t doing anything!” Even now, I feel like I’m just really coming into my own. It’s so important for a person to just do them. I know it’s improper (and it’s burning me up a bit not to correct it), but it needs to be said just like that—be unboxable! Pardon the expression, it is so freeing to just be li

Balance is important. From the time we can remember, we are taught to strive for balance: eat balanced meals, get enough sleep, “just say no.” But somewhere along the way, we shift; things aren’t so simple. We go into work on the weekends, our bedtime slides back a half hour every couple months, we eat without thinking or we think about it and haven’t eaten. I‘m sure we could all fill in the blanks of what we have too little of and too much of-- we have become imbalanced. Now