One Hand Speaks

My tickets are bought and I am on my way to Nepal this March 2023 for my third Buddhist Pilgrimage. I am super excited to return to visit sacred Buddhist sites, do some shopping for my small online dharma store, visit old friends, and practice a lot of dharma. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: My third trip to Nepal as mostly a Buddhist Pilgrimage. I will be visiting Makatika cave, where Padmasambhava practiced and hopefully a cave where the great Yogi Milarepa meditated. There will be some dharma supply shopping. Time will be spent with friends I have made in Kathmandu from my last two visits in 2020 and 2022. Resources: Swayambhunath Stupa – A bit of info about the famous "Monkey Temple" in Kathmandu, Nepal. Visit Nepal 2020 – The campaign to visit in 2020. Boudhanath Stupa – A truly exceptional experience and a must see in Kathmandu, Nepal. Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal – Some wiki info about this most popular and t

I went to San Diego for an Aikido Seminar that I started going to 19 years ago. It was great to see old friends, make new friends, and do some training. I was hanging after-hours at JiAi Aikido dojo with a couple other Sensei and other people sleeping at the dojo when this funny one handed Aikido story was shared. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: Visiting Jiai Aikido in San Diego for the 19th Annual Aikido Bridge Seminar. After hours hang time at the dojo. Resources: Aikido Shimboku Kai - The aikido affiliation on my dojo, Three Shapes Aikido. Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search f

All my life I have watched my mother love Egyptians, their history, and the Great Pyramids. It is her dream vacation. I am planning on taking her this year. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: My mother's dream vacation. Repaying my mother's kindness. Resources: My mother wants to be a traveling Gypsy - Podcast #080. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy and leave a comment or offer feedback. Play Your Hand!

Many people I have encountered toward the end of last year and into the new year have mentioned how difficult their 2022 was for them. Not many people at all said they had a good 2022. Mostly people mentioned in a very provocative tone they hope 2023 will be better than 2022. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: 2022... How was it for you? Resources: 2022 Year in Review - Podcast #296. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy an

My year 2022 in review. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: 2022... What an interesting year. Resources: Happy New Year 2022, Day 1 - Podcast #244. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy and leave a comment or offer feedback. Play Your Hand!

This podcast is a simple reflection of what I have been noticing in my body in my late forties and early fifties. This is not your standard "my body hurts as I age" commentary. But more the one-handed overtones I have been feeling in my body as I age. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: The one-handed overtones I have been feeling in my body as I age. I wish I knew older one-handed people to offer one-handed aging advice when I was young. Resources: Naturally Asymmetrical - Podcast #043. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write you

When I was in the first few years of primary school, something extremely uncomfortable happened to me and another student born with disabilities. I attended St. John The Baptist, a private Catholic Elementary (grades 1 to 8) school in South Bend, Indiana. When I look back on it I can understand the intention of what they were doing. It does seem like they were trying to do good. However, it was incredibly uncomfortable for me as a one handed very young child. That experience had an impact on me then and still does in some way now. I say this because the experience is one of my early memories of one-handedness that I have never forgotten and comes up in my thinking enough to notice. Seems like a good topic for a podcast. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: Some early experience do have a lastly impact on children. This podcast is not a negative statement about attending Private Catholic school. This is more about how the general

Part 2 of a two part contemplation about the quality of two one-handed interactions I have had with people around me. They are two side of the proverbial "same coin." These two interactions have been in my thoughts often of late. So much that I noticed I would consider them in the same stream of thinking. It was at that point I thought they would make good podcast even if they lean more to the serious side.  Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: It is interesting how my subtle perception about my one handedness can impact others. Resources: The Buddha Path - The Teachings of Buddha Teja Bell - Qiging and Dharma Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your com

Part 1 of a two part contemplation about the quality of two one-handed interactions I have had with people around me. They are two side of the proverbial "same coin." These two interactions have been in my thoughts often of late. So much that I noticed I would consider them in the same stream of thinking. It was at that point I thought they would make good podcast even if they lean more to the serious side.  Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: It is interesting how other people's subtle perception about my one handedness and the limits they put on me can impact me. Resources: The Buddha Path - The Teachings of Buddha Teja Bell - Qiging and Dharma Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or lau

Today, Tuesday November 29th 2022 I turned 54 years old. I just want to share a few things that have been popping up for me at this time on social media. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: A cool YouTuber named @Sprouht asks older people a series of questions about aging, being old, and advice to pass on to younger people. Resources: Will Rossy - @Sprouht Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy and leave a comment or offer fe

This past week I did a very short Aikido demonstration here in Idaho at a local dojo's 25 year anniversary celebration. There were a lot of people, children, demos, and laughter. At a slower moment during the event a young boy approached me and asked me a most incredible question. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: A you boy asked me asked if I like the way I a. What a great question. Resources: Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and

The beginning of twenty years seems so long. At the end of twenty years, the time passed seems so short. Such a milestone is twenty years of anything. For me it is twenty years of doing Aikido (a bit longer) and teaching Aikido. Twenty years (also a bit longer) employment at the Bureau of Reclamation. Twenty years since my father passed away. Twenty years (more like twenty three) a Buddhist in both the Rinzai Zen and Tibetan Dzogchen Vajrayana. All this arose when I realized I have been a direct student of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche and Tibet Buddhism for twenty years. Twenty years... What a milestone!! Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: Twenty years employed at the Bureau of Reclamation. Twenty years practicing and teaching Aikido. Twenty years since my father passed. Twenty years a Buddhist student of Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche  Resources: Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo. The Buddha Path - My Buddhist Dz

I was originally going to do this podcast two weeks ago on the day it happened. However, I contracted covid and everything got tossed around for about a week. But one day just about two weeks ago, I ran into 5 different people who either lived near the 10th Street Dojo in Boise's North end, were students of 3 Shapes Aikido, or were the parents of students in my dojo.  Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: I ran in 5 people/families from the days of the original 3 Shapes Aikido in Boise, Idaho's historic North End Community. The 10th street Dojo in Boise. Reshape your life. Three Shapes Aikido. Resources: Three Shapes Aikido - My Aikido Dojo. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch t

This is part 2 of my two-part series about getting the Coronavirus. This is after about 5 days past getting tested. I will continue to share how much it sucked, how the symptoms changed over a couple of days, and how I am feeling today. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: Now I have an extreme cough. I also have the chills. Resources: CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy an

I contracted Covid. I actually got it from my brother. This is a two part podcast just to share my personal experience with how I felt and how it progressed. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: I felt like I was always going to puke but never could The raging headache lasted for two days! Resources: CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy and leave a comment or offer feedback.

This past Saturday I went to the Boise Bicycle Project's 15th Annual Appreciation Party. I am a member of this great community bike shop and love to shop and work on my bicycles there. Often I will do many of the rides and special events hosted by the Boise Bicycle Project including the Annual Appreciation Party. Over the course of this year I have gotten to know one of the board members and their little 6 year old girl named Lola. This is about the one handed interaction we had and the funny thing she said this past Saturday. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: I like to support the Boise Bicycle Project as much as I can. For most of my life I have always had a bicycle. I love bicycles! Resources: Boise Bicycle Project - This bicycle makes Boise cool! Lost Grove Brewing - The host of the Boise Bicycle Project's 15th Annual Appreciation Party and all around hip spot for micro brews. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | fa

A guy ran a red light and hit me blind-side style in the front driver side quarter panel. Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback. Show Notes: I could have died! Resources: The Buddha Path - Understanding the impermanence of life. Contact. Follow. Share. instagram | facebook | twitter | pinterest How to review the podcast on iTunes If you enjoyed, benefited or were impacted by the podcast, it would be beyond cool if you’d take a minute and write a review on iTunes. To do that, click on the iTunes link or launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone. Search for One Hand Speaks, select the album art for the show, select ratings and reviews and then write your review. Big thanks and appreciation. Please spread and share if you feel others will benefit and enjoy and leave a comment or offer feedback.

What an amazing week of family, reunions, and a beautiful wedding. It was such a much better time than I had expected.

I had no idea the olive business was so tough. This year was a mad scramble of uncertainty as we tried to find an olive dealer who had them in stock and who would ship the olives.

Family matters... As does the matters of a family. This week I am heading back to Indiana for a family reunion and to attend my brother's son's wedding. I have not really seen a lot of my extended family in an incredibly long time.