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A Well Run Life

Peter M Deeley Jr.

Come in. Sit down Take a second You get enough advice This is about nothing And everything And all of it in-between That’s enough for now It’s not a sprint Travel to A Well Run Life.com Tell us how you are

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2:54

Heroic Dips***

A Well Run Life ·

2017/10/22

“Don’t talk to Pete. He is a dipshit.” In another era of my professional life, I read this love-note on an e-mail from a disgruntled client to her boss. I am unsure whether I was copied intentionally – but I am sure it gave her a certain amount of pleasure that I got to read what she thought of me. At that time of my life, I was part of an international sales-force of a company that did business on 5 continents. And a month before I am called a dipshit – I was celebrated as the highest

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3:35

The Unlikely Is Not The Imposible

A Well Run Life ·

2017/10/17

Somewhere in the mid- 1960’s he is in the 10th grade and doing a handstand on the top rails of the Empire State Buildings observation deck. Some volunteer parent looking after the high school kids take one look and faint dead-away. An unfortunate gust of wind sends him tumbling like a fall leaf. But it didn’t and the story lives on in family infamy.

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3:19

Leave A Message

A Well Run Life ·

2017/10/07

"Ya ought to be ashamed of yourself!" This is my first voicemail of the day. When I worked for a giant company and held a position of authority and influence I liked the money - Everyone likes the money. But next on the list was this: Everyone returned my calls.

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4:19

The Gospel of Doubt

A Well Run Life ·

2017/09/26

It goes without saying: I do not know what I am doing. I killed all the tilapia in my aquaponics farm because I misunderstood how to keep them healthy. 30 chickens on the farm died because I built a substandard chicken coop that some average coyote easily penetrated. I am not a famer Yet I farm. There are people in my life that want me to focus. To do one thing and do that thing with excellence. But I have lived with the keen awareness of my death since I was 12. I don’t fear it. When I go,

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4:46

Bee Careful

A Well Run Life ·

2017/09/22

I am in no danger of becoming an expert. In Anything. She is calling me because she wants me to be safe. I want to pick-up to tell her I am safe. However, I am standing on a ladder In a bee suit – which If I knocked on your door wearing this bee suit You would think I was there to clean the Ebola virus out of your carpets. I am wearing leather gloves – giant ones. They look like I should be handling glowing red bars to be smashed on some anvil And my hands are roughly the size of the

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5:01

46, 47

A Well Run Life ·

2017/09/17

Somewhere in the development of the human species we learned to use tools. There is a great scene in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey that imagines the moment when our primordial ancestors learned to use a hammer. In my development as a farmer on Grace Farms, I have somehow regressed to just before the point in time when human beings learned to use tools. In trying to authentically develop a place where food can be grown, my enthusiasm for avoiding contamination of any kind created a sort of

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3:55

In The Weeds

A Well Run Life ·

2017/09/02

In our desert, water occasionally falls from the sky sufficiently to create Flash Floods and awaken the seeds of future tumbleweeds and voracious milk weeds. Let me do my best to avoid the farming – garden cliché of discussing the spiritual virtues acquired by weeding their growing soil. Don’t trust anyone who writes about how pulling weeds freed their minds. I am walking along the fence line of my tiny farm looking like the world’s ugliest cheerleader holding two massive pom-poms of

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3:27

Clever or Not You're Ready

A Well Run Life ·

2017/08/27

My mom says I am smart, but that I am not clever. I am sure I am not smart enough to know what she means – but I have thought about her description often over the years. My thinking is not elegant. I don’t come to conclusions with deft – deductive – Sherlock Holms-ian clarity. I have go over and under and around and through ideas And then I need to feel the idea in practice. I am a reader – I enjoy learning – but I only learn lessons after feeling the consequences of screwing something up

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3:41

Needful Things

A Well Run Life ·

2017/08/14

I have a very particular style of home improvement. My instincts attune to the whatever is the easiest, most efficient route And I travel that path only after exhausting every single difficult road first. I come from a family who deeply values language and we look for metaphors everywhere But we’ll save the obvious corollaries to my life for another, longer podcast.

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3:20

Salad Days

A Well Run Life ·

2017/08/09

As I type this the tender heads of my babies are passing through the digestive tracks of my enemies. I don’t know about you, but when I see a baby – eating it’s head off is not the first thing that comes to mind. That is not the case for the birds near my farm. I grow – with care and tenderness – little sunflower shoots from the seed. I do this in the house. Where it is safe.

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3:20

Chicken Hit

A Well Run Life ·

2017/07/29

If the Chickens had a Mafia, this is how I imagined they would settle old scores. Upon returning from a trip out of town, I walked on to Grace Farms. There, I found all my girls- who I raised from baby Chicks - scattered in various poses of death and dismemberment. I am vexed. I built a Chicken Cathedral. A good home, safe from any reasonable predator. But, clearly the neighbor houses an animal member of ISIS who hunts young chicks on my farm. I have been reminded that this is the natural

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2:59

Snow Storm

A Well Run Life ·

2017/07/17

The movie in my imagination shows a mid-sized dog launching from an easy boy and chewing the nose off my face. To make matters worse, Jon Snow is back in town tonight. Right along side my wife, I have been pining for him for months. Jon Snow will soon face the White Walkers while I am faking bravery in front of a family pet. I would like to report I did not soil myself. Having survived the encounter, my wife and I looked great at a very fancy event we drank and danced and had a great time

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2:50

Pale Cucumbers

A Well Run Life ·

2017/07/17

Placing the cucumbers in the harsh desert light seems a harsh. Under the pressure of the summer heat they will either shrivel and die, or come into the fullness of their flavor. I trust their grit and I am anticipating a great harvest.

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3:20

Stings

A Well Run Life ·

2017/07/14

We are obsessively watching The Americans on Amazon Prime. If you tasted this bit of Telivision Crack, chances are you’e done the same. The show is overtly political but it’s engine is the relationship between husband and wife: Phillip and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is this teeny tiny woman. Now, my wife and I see the world vastly differently. There must be days when she cannot believe she married someone with my political views. But we both agree: Elizabeth is a badass.

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2:44

Antsy

A Well Run Life ·

2017/07/04

If you knew how much I hate the ants in my garden, you would be creating a Kickstarter campaign to cover the bills associated with my much-needed therapy. The little demons aside, I am under the spell of growing food. It’s cucumbers, melons and sunflowers that generously fill my garden under my unforgiving Arizona summer sky. I am barely surviving the blistering heat. And so, when I see a watermelon or cantaloupe resting on the ground Vibrantly soaking in the over-available sunshine

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3:20

Stinky Honey

A Well Run Life ·

2017/06/25

My wife’s palate is very sharp. She can parse flavors in dishes down to the spices and the addresses of the pigs who gave their lives for the pork in our stew. With great tasting powers come great smelling powers. Which can be a blessing and a curse. “Honey,” she says while I have come in from working on a small farm we are shaping to lay next her for a brief moment, “you need a shower.”

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2:59

Unambiguous Work

A Well Run Life ·

2017/06/05

My record as an entrepreneur is unambiguous. I am an awful entrepreneur. I have been pretty-good at making large sums of money for other people, but I have recycled my earnings through a series of business train wrecks that will make most every business person in the world feel better about their own skills.

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1:55

Straighten Out

A Well Run Life ·

2017/04/27

The bones of the spine want to sit directly on top of each other. The shoulders want to be down and back. Pull yourself out of alignment and tell me you like it. Slouch and crumple yourself and say it feels good. But, when you see a dancer move, an athlete run, you know better. The premium placed on sarcasm still surprises me. I may be getting soft, but crassness seems to have become the surrogate for wit. Harmony looks easy, but it requires holding the spine upright – it takes a bit of

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3:00

The Promise Of A Blue Sky

A Well Run Life ·

2017/02/03

I hear the engine of a small airplane and the sky is very blue. Who knows how memory works. This is among my earliest recollections. Somehow, I remember it outside my body – looking at my 4 year old self in the front yard of the first house I ever lived in. From that moment until today, I associate the sound of a small aircraft with beautiful days.

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2:38

Parking Lot Prayers

A Well Run Life ·

2016/11/30

You never want to call someone crazy, but he was dressed in the blues of the local mental hospital. We were standing in front of a local grocery store. I truly enjoyed this neighborhood. But, family and friends found this an unusual predilection of mine. A cross dresser in his early 70’s fed stray cats outside the Starbucks from an open tuna can every morning. My porch somehow became a garage-sale wherever thing was free. The theft was so common I put out everything I would otherwise

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