And then there was Peaberry & Galette, another brilliant coffee shop I was blessed to frequent during this year; one with a very cool house-jazz vibe (this was the first place I ever heard the music of St. Germain) and two extremely kind Japanese-American co-owners (who allowed me to practice the few Japanese phrases that […]
And it was later this year when I went and saw the movie “Hero”, and was deeply inspired by the insightful depth of its portrayal of unconditional Love, self-sacrificial Nobility, practical Selflessness & Right Action (Hint: one must look much deeper than the film’s impressive swordplay to understand what I’m talking about) … “In the […]
It was in the late spring of this next year when I came to finally comprehend what real LOVE truly was – that real LOVE was 100% about giving and 0% about getting, that joyful self-sacrifice for another was the most potent way to come to know Inner Peace, and that spreading the innate practicality […]
This was the year I was blessed to engage the very best paid job I ever had: namely, elementary school teacher’s assistant – helping out in a Headstart kindergarten for the first part of the year, and then shadowing a highly troubled (and often hyper-violent) 3rd grader until the year’s end … “The mediocre teacher […]
This was also the year when I met Pastor Dan – at the time the head minister at Kona United Methodist Church. Not only did Dan frequently stop by Border bookstore to engage in what we both reverently called our “Shotgun Bible Study” (where there was no lesson plan or specified objective, where the entire […]
This is also the year when I began to crystallize my resolve to set my True Self (a.k.a. my conscience – what some call the Soul) free; when I decided to rededicate my life to the selfless service of others (a la The Way of Christ that was humbly yet boldly embodied by Jesus, Peace […]
And then in the early stages of this year I made the decision to fully embody a humble reverence for all beings; living each day as an “official” Peace Pilgrim – serving any & all nearby in every available moment, and always doing so without accepting any form of recompense for the same. It was […]
In the spring of this year I constructed this mossy-stone-lined switchback (over a two+ month period) in the woods of Alexzanna Farms (near Wildwood, Georgia) and gave it my last name – Mossway – shortly after its completion (myself becoming solely “Scaughdt” from that point onward) … “Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the […]
While I was “mining” landscaping-stones at a construction site near a local truck-stop, my brother & I found (or rather, were found by) the most beautifully friendly white dog. She wouldn’t leave our sides even after we finished our work and were heading homeward, so we stopped off at her presumed residence – a nearby […]
This was also the summer that my brother Todd and I decided to utilize the plethora of large stones laying about the Alexzanna Farms property to make several free-standing stone benches. Of the 8 such seats we made, the one picture remains my personal favorite. It overlooks the “Bonfire Glen” located on the back-eastern portion […]
As previously mentioned, this was the year when my new life as a Peace Pilgrim summoned me forth – eventually calling for me to leave the American southeast and travel all over the United States; leaving Chattanooga to share The Way of Selfless Kindness in Boise (Idaho), Chicago (Illinois), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Highland Park (Illinois), Mentone […]
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