Call Me A Snowflake
I woke the other morning to a snowstorm outside my window. It was coming down in thick, chunky clumps, with nary a delicate snowflake to be found. I was reminded of something I had read, written by a person who equated those condemning the current administration to ‘snowflakes’. I had to think about that…
Snowglobe of the Mind
“Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.” –David Steindl-Rast Imagine you have a snow globe in your pocket. Going through your day, it…
The Countdown
Dearest Friend, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who’ve either been or had a mother! Whatever that experience means for you, it is certainly a shared thread between every person on this planet. My beautiful girl and I started celebrating on Saturday, and I’m thinking TWO days is a much more appropriate amount of…
I Don’t Wanna!
“The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.” ~ Stephen R. Covey from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Resistance is a bear, my friends. (Another B-word came to mind but I decided to keep it clean.) One…
Small Waves, Big Waves, Tsunamis
Sometimes, when your feet are firmly embedded in the soft sand, the ripples can feel like a tickle or stroke. You and the wave, moving almost imperceptibly together. Sometimes, when you can see a big one coming, you have time (and forethought) to duck down, so that the turbulence passes right over your head, and…
Resisting Impulse
“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, led to one or another impulse to act.” Daniel Goleman Daniel Goleman, who wrote the groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence, purports that it is some other psychological assessment, other…