Whenever you meet someone for the first time, it doesn’t take long before your new acquaintance will ask,
“So, what do you do?”
I hate that question. Not because I sit on the couch all day watching tv and eating Doritos. I hate it because it’s a comparison question.
People…
Some places from my past seem to insist on being revisited. I wonder if I’ve inadvertently leaked a little of my soul’s energy in these places. The tug from my leaked energy can’t be ignored. I must return to the spot — just to breathe it into my essence again.
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The fear center in our brain, the amygdala, is a powerful and tricky thing. Designed to help us survive dangerous situations back when we had to dodge lions, tigers, leopards, and even large eagle-like birds that could pick up and carry off our young. …
After putting up $4 million of his own dollars and raising $91 million more, he was down to his last $5,000 and about to lose his company. Desperate, he went to Vegas and put it all on the blackjack table. Talk about risk!
But he saw risk differently than you…
We can’t avoid new situations, no matter how hard we try. If we could, COVID-19 wouldn’t be a thing right now. Life comes at us. We need to shape it to best suit our needs. But how?
Imagine a new situation as something soft and pliable, something ripe for molding…
Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z — all man-made labels stamped on people born at a particular time. The label assigned to a generation usually spans 20 years. That’s a large track of time. A lot can change in 20 years.
Lumping vast swaths of people together under one label is the…
Don’t group me in with the fools who won’t wear masks
Recently President Biden referred to certain states lifting mask mandates as “Neanderthal thinking”. It was an admonishment. He was referring to how small-minded it is of these states to throw all caution to the wind. …
There’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. It starts slowly at first, leaving little clues that something's not quite right. By the time we fully understood what was happening, it was already well on its way to stealing her from us.
Like an old faded Polaroid picture, the person…
I once read somewhere that smiling at someone was like blowing them a kiss from your soul. What a lovely thought, but how do we do that with masks pulled tight over our smile-makers.
I want to blow kisses from my soul. …
Warning: I’m about to call to your attention a strange phenomenon which, once you are aware of it, will present itself everywhere. Like the Bernie meme. If you’re ok with that, read on.
I see them almost nightly while watching the news. Last night, for example, there was a story…
