I lived nearly 29 years of my life with no knowledge of or association with Lou Tice. It was during my personal quarter-life crisis that I first discovered Lou and his organization, The Pacific Institute. A close friend of mine serendipitously happened to connect with an executive from TPI over the phone after an operator [...]

R.I.P. Father Abraham style
Good lord. I’ve been experiencing an enormous amount of creative avoidance with my Father Abraham series lately. You may be aware that I’ve been trying to add some more discipline in my life, even trying to create a structured process to do so. Even after tweaking it, I wasn’t any closer to reaching my goals [...]

Adding some new disciplines, Father Abraham style – Part 2
About a week and a half ago, I decided to add some more discipline to my life and my daily regimen. First on my list: be early to rise. Well, I think that I managed that for about three or four days. Then I had an extended out of state trip for five days, and [...]

Pete Carroll and Lou Tice
A local Seattle news station did a nice video piece on the relationship between the Seattle Seahawks coach and the founder/chairman of The Pacific Institute.

Kirk Gibson and The Pacific Institute
I’ve been affiliated with The Pacific Institute for almost three years now. I’ve been an Arizona Diamondbacks fan since their inception in 1998. But for some inexplicable reason, I have been completely ignorant of Arizona manager Kirk Gibson’s history with TPI. I was back in Seattle last weekend, for the final “Weekend with Lou” event [...]

Adding some new disciplines, Father Abraham style
Way, way back in the day, there was an extremely popular song among Christian Sunday School classes. The song’s popularity among children didn’t have a lot to do with the inspiring lyrics, or the transcendent spiritual message. In fact, to this day I cannot figure out what it was designed to teach children. But I [...]
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