Don’t Let Planning Get in the Way of Living!
I am a planner. Some would call this being a control freak and on many days, I might be inclined to agree with them. I come from a long line of planners, most evident being my mother, who went to her passage with notebooks full of ideas and unfinished dreams near her side. I too [...]
It’s a New Dawn…It’s a New Day…It’s a New Blog Look for Me
Previous visitors to the blog will notice dramatic changes as I am working from a new look in blog theme, and in how I produce the work you will be seeing. If you review my post on media fasting, you will note that I had become the victim of a bit of information overload. Stepping [...]
Can You Escape?
Yesterday I pulled into a crowded NC gas station, and started my routine— pumping, grumbling, and pumping. I wasn’t alone in that routine. Suddenly, something pulled up that caused every last person at the station to turn their heads and start drooling. One man stopped pumping his gas, looked into his car at his wife [...]
Seek The Beginners Mind
There are no accidents as they say, so when my daughter asked me to watch a DVD of the Disney animated flick, “Meet the Robinsons,” I thought, “Okay.” I was pleasantly surprised to find an animated flick providing children and particularly adults with positive messages best not forgotten. Message 1: Don’t be bitter. Let it [...]
Connection is “The Secret” to Salvation
So many are so into the ideas behind “The Secret.” Fad or not… Oprah pushed idea that is moving on or not… Does this not speak to a larger issue? Are we not as a society struggling to connect with each other? Does the concept of changing our thoughts, which suggest prior thoughts of negativity [...]
Open Your Heart to Possibility
In this moment, when I say “open your heart to possibility,” I do not mean to focus on hope, even though this is part of it. I do not mean that you should focus on change, even though this too is part of it. What I mean is being present in each moment and aware [...]
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