In large part, Memorial Day has devolved into a weekend that represents the onset of the summer season. It’s something like the starting gun at the beginning of a race. It’s the day that officially frees us from the doldrums of winter and gives us some sort of permission to play for the next three months or so until Labor Day reminds us that it’s … [Read More]
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A Letter to Mom on Mother’s Day
For some, Mother’s Day comes full of rich memories and wonderfully cherished moments. For others, it arrives with something far less meaningful and far more painful. However it comes, we all have a Mother. And the nature of our relationship with our Mother’s varies immensely. Regardless of the nature or state of it, there is within each of us a … [Read More]
Mother’s Day Quotes – Honoring Mothers
Over the years I have been privileged to write 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 Mother's Day, I have selected a handful of quotations that express the power, importance and wonder … [Read More]
The Crisis of Our Choices – Us-Verses-Us
We tend to rather blithely categorize times of crisis simply as happenstance occurrences that reflect the frequently volatile and somewhat unpredictable nature of life. Because we tend to conceptualize crisis in this manner, we readily place times of crisis in this convenient “us-versus-them” category so that our focus is on managing the crisis … [Read More]