I was thinking.  And the more I thought, the more I realized that there is a whole lot to think about.  But in my thinking, I thought that most of our thinking (despite how much there is to think about) is really pretty standardized and chafingly rote.  We think we think, but the more I think about that, the less I think we think (if you know what … [Read more...]

The nature of our humanity is such that we are thirsty for connectivity, desperate for relationship, vibrantly enlivened by the sharing of souls, and wildly transformed when another life dares to connect with us in those places raw and wounded.  We do not live in isolation, and to think so is to ignore the undeniable connectivity that occurs when … [Read more...]

There is a tremendous and completely ingenious capability inherent in our humanity that exceeds our wildest expectations.  Sadly, we have dumbed ourselves down to the point that we have compromised, and in many cases altogether forfeited these marvelous capabilities.  In doing so, our conviction regarding our capability is marginalized to near … [Read more...]

Decisions. Life is quite literally jam-packed with them. We make them all of the time; literally one after another after another. Hardly a single minute passes where we’re not thinking through and making some sort of decision. Some decisions are huge and sweeping, amply possessing both the power and scope to impact our lives for the rest of our … [Read more...]

An unknown author wrote, “Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what cannot be seen.”  We possess this strangely cockeyed perception that we must be able to see something in order to treasure it.  More than that, we think that we have to be able to somehow hold it in our hands.  And then, in far too many cases we think we have to be … [Read more...]

What is the nature of our mentality anyway?  We are a complex collection of experiences, wounds, failures, successes, relationships, genetics and a wholly innumerable array of other things that press together and then settle into some sort of uniquely amalgamated compilation that makes us, us.  The nature of these things and the manner in which … [Read more...]

A conscience is that pressing sense that unerringly guides our choices and pricks us when we don’t heed it’s prompting.  It’s that mysteriously universal compass that relentlessly points true north when we don’t have any idea where true north is, or when prefer to take some other direction altogether out of a sense of convenience or selfishness or … [Read more...]

Isaac Newton's Third Law states that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”  Or more simply put for the lay-people among us, there’s a consequence to the stuff that we do.  We all know that.  Norman Cousins wrote that “a human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his … [Read more...]

We live in a world spiraling in a confounding kaleidoscopic of shoddy opinions, self-serving biases, vacillating cultural mandates, clarion calls for whatever politically-correct notion might be trending at the moment, and the elusive lure of all things vogue and trendy.  We’re frantically chasing some perpetually shifting norm that’s nothing of a … [Read more...]

Too often we are repetitively reactionary and little more.  Life becomes something more of obligatory duty rather than gifted privilege.  Our days become stale, methodical routines that hammer out another empty twenty-four hours on the incessant assembly line of our lives, rather than being an astonishing adventure that could peel off in … [Read more...]