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THE ENDLESS WAVE | PART TWO
compassion. Skateboarding is a practical and applied form of spirituality at its best!
So many similarities have revealed themselves to me in both paths and it has been through having a foot in each world, that I have been inspired to bridge both worlds. Although it has taken me several years to be able to articulate and be completely transparent about my experience of skateboarding and spirituality, the exact day that I asked for help from Archangel Michael (a strong, supportive Angel who oversees things such as protection, life-path and im- portant life-decisions) and declared that I wanted to begin a new writing proj- ect, was the exact day that Michael Brooke, of Concrete Wave Magazine, contacted me about the first blog post that I wrote about Spirituality and Skateboarding. The post that I made on Spirituality and Skateboarding dated back to 8 years ago, reading on the calendar as the date of Michael’s birthday!
All this in the space of one request of divine intervention was a strong indi- cation that I was on the right path! Michael shared that since selling Concrete Wave Magazine he had been working as an assistant at a funeral home and also had several spiritual awakenings of his own in recent years. We ex- changed our perspectives on several topics, which then led our conversations to be directed toward the possibility of writing a book together.
I feel safe and free from judgment being around skateboarders and spiritual people. In both worlds, although my friends were not always able to under- stand or relate to what I was talking about, they always listened without judg- ment. I felt like I’ve always wanted to write and share my ideas about my inner and outer worlds with others. I want to inspire the amazing people in skateboarding to be the very best they can be, in grounded, practical and re- latable ways.
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