Most times we really don’t appreciate something until we don’t have it. We have this onerous proclivity to miss the value of things because we have them. In having things we begin to take them for granted because of their frequency and consistency in our lives. They ‘are’ just because they ‘are.’ And anything special or unique or valuable is often … [Read more...]

I'm not certain that we really know what communication is simply because we tend to see so little of it. Sure, we convey information. We bullet-point points, we post on walls, we pin, we text, we instant message, we send memos, and we do a host of other things and we do a lot of it. But do we communicate? Communication is the deep communion of … [Read more...]

Submerged somewhere deep within us are a host of potent agendas; some latent and others quite obvious. We believe that we’re driven far more by other things that are much nobler and chivalrous. Yet in reality we’re chockfull of a bunch of agendas that both dominate and direct a bunch of what we do. We would be wisely astute to understand that those … [Read more...]

Too often we take on the characteristics of our environment at the loss of whoever it is that we are. And sometimes we do that to the point that we become more of the environment than anything else. When that happens, and it happens far too frequently, we lose an authentic sense of self that is perpetually harder to reclaim. The cost of such a loss … [Read more...]

Do we ever stop to think how many things that we blithely take for granted? But far more than that, do we ever stop to think how things we take for granted that are absolutely vital to our existence? It seems that we have this diminishing and rather ignorant proclivity to do exactly that with far too many things that are in reality priceless beyond … [Read more...]