Thanksgiving is an incredibly rich time. It affords us the opportunity to reflect on the transformational power that an attitude of thanksgiving delivers into our lives. It likewise prompts us to move away from all lesser tendencies that tend to woo us and instead embrace this vitally important attitude. As a ‘thank you’ to my readers, I’ve … [Read more...]
Being Thankful – A Forgotten Art
Being thankful is a nice idea and something that we’re supposed to do. There’s something right and proper and good about it. But sometimes in the rush of life we don’t feel we have time to be thankful, or that our situation isn’t really something to be thankful about. Life sometimes is more about survival and less about anything else. So there … [Read more...]
Playing with the Fire – Thinking we’re That Good
At times we tend to like to “dance with the devil,” “push the envelope,” and “play with fire.” At some level we’re all dare-devils. There comes those moments, either frequent or infrequent when we become a bit bored with the everyday stuff of everyday life. And in those moments we want to shake it up and spice it up. There’s an utterly profound … [Read more...]
Bobbing and Weaving – The Dance of Justification
We’re not all too bad at bobbing and weaving. We’re pretty good at side-stepping and side-lining issues. We’re quite adept at cutting and spinning, doing a bit of fanciful dodging, as well as deftly running the obstacle course without getting so much as a scratch on us. We’ve learned to see things coming from a long ways away, and we’ve figured … [Read more...]
The Worst Slavery – Slavery to Ignorance
Slavery as an institution is pretty far removed from the minds of most of us residing here in 21st century America. Slavery sits back plenty far enough in the faded, yellowed and brittle pages of history to create a more than comfortable chasm between us and itself. We view that chasm of time and social development and modernism as broad enough … [Read more...]
The Perfect Storm – When Life Hits All At Once
Wikipedia states that a perfect storm “refers to the simultaneous occurrence of weather events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the storm resulting of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature, so that even a slight change in any one event contributing to the perfect storm would lessen its … [Read more...]
Am I Paying Attention? – Being Aware
Am I paying attention? As this thing called life moves ‘round about me, and I move ‘round about within it, am I paying attention to it all? Am I paying attention, or have I unwittingly confused a host of other behaviors and habits as paying attention? Am I paying attention, or have I adopted certain views or biases as ready templates that I slap … [Read more...]
How Did I Get Here? – Not Being Where I Expected
Did you ever have one of those surreal moments when it seems like something snaps in your head and suddenly you see everything like you never saw it before? A lot of things can trigger these moments . . . an argument, a child leaving the home, a death, a job loss, a divorce, a birthday, unexpected contact from a long-lost friend or any number of … [Read more...]
Pain to Paralysis – Coming Apart at the Scars
There’s pain, and then there’s intensely deep pain. We all have pain. We all have the pain of failed experiences, sordid disappointments, wasted opportunities and wasted investments that we thought were opportunities. There’s the pain of not being where we imagined being, of being forced to embrace dreams as more fantasy than substance, of … [Read more...]
Father’s Day Quotes to Enrich Your Holiday
Over the years I have written an extensive array of books, articles, blogs and quotes. During special times of the year, I search these writings for quotes to both enrich and enlarge our celebration of that particular season. For Father's Day, I have selected a handful of quotations that express the power and importance of being a father. In a … [Read more...]
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