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...]

Too often we are part of the proverbial herd. We simply plod along with all the other people who are plodding along because everyone else is plodding along. The herd is kept together through some false sense that there must be a mutually agreed upon destination that is compelling enough for everyone to join forces in a mass march toward that … [Read more...]

Life is a road. And in navigating that road, more often than not we’re in the sluggish right lane of life. In the right lane we’re doing little more than pacing ourselves based on the person in front of us who’s pacing themselves based on the person in front of them, and so on. And it is here that our lives become less about some electrifying … [Read more...]

It seems that we don’t see anything as sacred anymore. It seems that life has been stripped of the scared and diminished in the stripping. There are very few things that we hold in such high regard that we stand enthralled by just the thought of them. Not much captures our imaginations or takes our breath away. Very seldom do we stand mesmerized … [Read more...]