Joe Tassi

By Joe Tassi

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  It's not a natural thing

  By Joe Tassi - Jan 01
  Liking people does not come naturally to me. It’s not a natural thing for me to embrace our relentlessly flawed humanity. In fact, my most common ...
  

• Love is ...

  By Joe Tassi - Apr 04
  Love is ... what? That's as far as I usually get when I try to write about love. This should be simple shouldn't it? Love is supposed to be boy ...
  

• You guys here for Zumba?

  By Joe Tassi - Feb 21
  My brother picked me up to go work out the other day. He was wearing his zip-up one-piece, Army green, lined Dickies coveralls and work boots and ...
  

• To make known the unknown

  By Joe Tassi - Jan 10
  I read these three lines recently: What we know we know. What we know we don't know. What we don't know we don't know. That last one is my ...
  

• Sit, breathe and be

  By Joe Tassi - Nov 29
  There are always challenges. It wouldn't be life without them. But I think how we respond to the challenges in our lives is as important, perhaps ...
  

• Surrender

  By Joe Tassi - Sep 27
  - From the time we are born until the moment we die we are in transition, yet we resist. When we are younger, we want to be older. When we are ...
  

• We have to really want it badly

  By Joe Tassi - Aug 02
  - Political solutions require political will. And political will exists only if the public is aware of and concerned enough about issues that affect ...
  

• Blow up your TV

  By Joe Tassi - Jun 28
  - Blow up your TV. I mean it. Take it out of the house and blow it up on the front lawn. Then no one on TV can tell you about the advancing enemy ...
  

• On being mindful

  By Joe Tassi - Jun 07
  - Living in the present is the objective of any mindfulness practice that moves us toward peaceful being. Mindfulness simply put means keeping our ...
  

• The gift of resistance

  By Joe Tassi - May 10
  - Resistance is the knot in your stomach, a nagging discontent, that discordant conversation between your inner voice and logical mind. Resistance ...
  

• 'Goo goo g’ joob'

  By Joe Tassi - Jul 04
  "I am he, as you are he, as you are me and we are all together." This profound lyric written by John Lennon tells us about the fundamental oneness ...
  

• What are we waiting for?

  By Joe Tassi - Mar 28
  So much lip service is given to the ideals of social change. We heard all about change as the 2008 presidential candidates stumped around the ...
  

• The inconspicuous among us

  By Joe Tassi - Feb 07
  After a big snow, have you ever wondered who it was that cleared your street? How early did they have to get up to go to work? Did someone fix ...
  

• Comfortably numb

  By Joe Tassi - Dec 13
  Has this happened to us, is it happening to our children? Beyond the trappings of security and personal comfort, out past our idealized momentary ...
  

• Where’s the pea?

  By Joe Tassi - Nov 15
  Celebrities are products, commodities, brands. Celebrity, whether it is packaged as entertainment, or draped in the American flag parading as ...
  

• The big 'holy cow'

  By Joe Tassi - Sep 06
  - When I feel threatened or powerless, or that someone is taking away my right to make decisions for myself, I get angry and I want to aggressively ...
  

• Everyone is you

  By Joe Tassi - Jul 07
  - Everyone is me and that means everyone is you. Think about that. If we considered everyone we encountered to be us, we might treat everyone ...
  

• A reminder

  By Joe Tassi - Jun 21
  - "This is it isn’t it? Staying clear about remaining in the moment when the moment does not feel good. It is our nature to run from pain. But ...
  

• Where peace resides

  By Joe Tassi - May 24
  - Peace, for all men, women, and children on earth, peace in our hearts and minds, peace in our souls, this is the promise of a well-lived life. ...
  

• Powerful waves

  By Joe Tassi - Apr 26
  - Our connection to everything in the world and the universe is not easy to comprehend. Yet every thought we think, every decision we make, every ...