Detecting patterns
We humans are pattern-detecting machines. We love patterns. We live by them -- seasonal patterns, cultural and social patterns. We create...
Happy New Monday
This is a time when you hear a lot about rebirth, new beginnings and fresh starts. That's what Easter is about. Whether we celebrate new...
Time out!
It's always a pleasure to take time out from what you usually do and do what feels wonderfully like nothing. But it's not nothing. It's...
The importance of renewal
"Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again." It was Thoreau who wrote in Walden in 1845 that this...
What path are you walking?
My neighbor's fence blew down about a week ago in the middle of a very windy night. So, until it's repaired, the physical boundary...
Rebound reframed
Many times, I've written that your feelings are just passing things. They come and they go. You are not your feelings. You endure even...
Nothing ever goes away
Maybe you can remember years ago, when you threw something out and you thought it was gone. Then the ecological movement rose and that...
Spread the love!
How many expressions have you heard that pertain to the heart? Trust your heart. Let your heart be your guide. Listen to your heart. What...
'S Wonderful
Do you know that Gershwin song, "'S Wonderful"? Such a happy song and such cheery, romantic and clever lyrics. Well, that's the Gershwins...
This isn't what I signed up for!
Seems like I've heard the expression "This isn't what I signed up for" at least a half dozen times this week. And I wonder, huh, where...