Comments on: It’s Been a Very Strange Year (and some…)

By: Durwin Foster

Durwin Foster — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:32:19 +0000

Wonderfully well-written, heartfelt post. Really moving.
Not sure why exactly, but what comes to me in reading this is the notion that our mutual connection, Ken Wilber, talks about when he talks about divine pride. that even in the most difficult circumstance, there is a core of clarity that we can access. it seems to me that you accessed that clear core, that divine pride, when you wrote this post about your father’s passing.
Yours,
Durwin

By: Kevin T

Kevin T — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:50:56 +0000

SO so glad to see this up on your site. It’s just as real reading it today as it was over 4 years ago. Your best work, Shawn…in my opinion. Thanks for being a teacher…need more of this. Continue to keep “reaching and connecting.”

Kevin

By: Shawn Phillips

Shawn Phillips — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:38:13 +0000

Jonathan,

Thank you for your kind words. I very much appreciate the sentiment. I’ve enjoyed watching your journey through Twitter and communicating with you.

I do get the upside a stronger community interaction and support. It takes some effort but thinking that it’s time to set up a well oiled Facebook group page or something. No use managing individual socials these days as the tools for support are all there.

Thank you!

To Your Life @ Full Strength,
Shawn

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:15:11 +0000

Shawn

You speak with such clarity and honesty in everythIng that I come across written and shared by you. Man, that shows such courage and integrity to be so in-tune with your feeling and body in the NOW. With all due credit given to Tripp Lanier and the New Man Life program, I don’t think I would have discovered your work, your philosophy of Life @ Full Strength or the possibility of my own potential.

Thank you for helping me open that door – it has been inspiring!

Humbly, Jonathan

By: Kateri Payne

Kateri Payne — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:43:55 +0000

Shawn, This is a beautiful (although sad) post. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself! I really appreciate and needed the reminder that life is temporary, and each day is our opportunity to do something with it. My grandma always tells me, “Life is god’s gift to you, and what you do with it is your gift to god.” So today, I will choose to live my life fully! Thank you, Kateri

By: Mike Reckner

Mike Reckner — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:05:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing Shawn. My dad passed 5 years ago in December. Your re-post brought back some memories for me, although there probably isn’t a week that passes that I’m not reminded of my dad.

For me, the song was “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw. Came out the same year and was on the radio every day. That’s the gift of loss; understanding to live now, be present and drink the nectar of life. Great reminder. I’m going to watch my son play soccer now and enjoy the moment.

Be well.
Mike

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:45:20 +0000

Shawn you and your brother have brought such awareness into my life with your works over the years. This blog along with some of the inner work in transformation has brought me to write my own father a letter and to reconcile with him after 20 years of conflicts and ups/downs. thank you for inspiring this example to always tell our families we care about them NOW and not wait. Life is too short and I intend to keep making progress and living to the fullest.. God Bless you and your entire family. Lots of Love…. andrew

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:58:37 +0000

My father died in January of this year at age 70 from Esophagus cancer. He’d been diagnosed 10 months earlier but month by month lost ground until he actually appeared 20 years older. I know the feeling of driving on air. My brother and I work for my father’s company in NJ and he was in Florida with my Mother and sister. The day you get the call is surreal. Making the decision to drop everything, get a flight and a rental car and then make the trip is surreal. Not knowing if you will make it on time. Talk about stubborn, he lasted 10 more days till he finally let go. Yeah, you just put one foot in front of the other every day. Somedays you walk yourself right into a brick wall and they all fall on you but you get up and keep going. You have to.

Paul, I’m so sorry. You’ll make it. Say what you have to say and be at peace.

-Debbie

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:34:21 +0000

Shawn,

Reading your story is like reliving my life through your eyes! I know your pain brother. Next month on June 10th will be the 1 year anniversary of my Dad’s passing. I remember leaving the hospital and feeling like I was floating, not sure what the hell to do. The past month has been 1 filled with constantly thining about that night and what could have been done differently.
I can also say I was blessed becasue I was with my dad as I was visitng from AZ with my son and him & my mom live in Va. We were 1 hour from taking my son to the airport to come back home when my dad suddenly collapsed. He held my son and my hand tight from 8pm until he passed at 2:38 in the morning. My son also reminds me so much of my Dad.
Shawn, you have done very well for yourself & your family. Your Dad would be very proud of you!

By: Paul Golding

Paul Golding — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:59 +0000

I read your story with pain in my heart, you see my father has terminal Leaukaemia and is close to the end (how close only time will tell, my father is very stubborn). Watching somebody you have always looked up to, wither is very painful, but when the fateful day arrives I do not know how I will cope. I have my pain, but I also have my daughters pain as she adores her grandfather. I am 42, but feel 10 when around my father, he is 5ft 6in and I am 5ft 10in, but I feel 3ft when he is near.
Thank you for your courage in telling us what must be a very painful story.