One who does not surrender his views and opinions to God will continue to be a god unto himself. He also will continue to experience the same hurts and difficulties as before. ~ Jim Richards, The Gospel of Peace It should have been easy to return to what I know is right. I’ve spent
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In the Phoenix airport is Earth Spirit, a shop that sells robots and clocks made of coffee cans. There’s vivid ceramic ware, richly colored glass art, and my favorite line of cards – StoryPeople by Brian Andreas. They’re the only cards I buy for myself. When I step off the plane at gate C3, I
“Collee’s Aunt Jenny was a WAAC. She had a face like a spade, but she married a good-looking man.” Grandpa began this story the same way, each of the hundred times he told it. My father would grunt, “Dad, we’ve heard this before,” and begin flipping through channels with the volume down. Harvard Health Publications
Yesterday, before I left Connecticut, I had to turn in the shiny red Mustang convertible I’d been driving. I think this past week may have been the first time I’d truly felt what people mean when they say a car “hugs” the road. I wanted to hug the car, but the shuttle driver loaded my
Four weeks ago, we began creating an intentional life. Intentionality is when we live in alignment with our core values. This alignment might help us reach goals, but only because it unsticks our gears so we can enjoy the ride. Life becomes more than goals and tasks. It becomes an expression of what we
Artwork by my friend Chris’s talented daughter http://past3ldr0nez.deviantart.com/ Lizzie Skurnick has some words that fit today’s blog. Worigins: Source of a mysterious anxiety Paralassist: Freezing up when help is required. Lizzie made me grin, explaining that Marta overcame paralassist when “She found that having a large umbrella gave her a big mouth.” That
Last week, we looked at situations that stir us. Lizzie Skurnick has a word that might describe your feelings regarding question 4. Doubtrage: uncertainty about whether one should be mad Perhaps your anger was triggered by one of the following. Dramaneering: maintaining control by seeming to be in crisis Deprescient: imagining the worst will happen
I picked up this book by Lizzie Skurnick, entitled That Should Be a Word. Lizzie has coined words such as “Canvict: one imprisoned by the inability to say no,” “Ruinvent: revamp oneself for the worse,” and “Maditate: becoming angrier by trying to calm down.” It’s the perfect book for the latrary: that basket of quick-lit
If you don’t believe men have evolved, take a sniff. In Bible times, men demonstrated their financial success and physical prowess by having a multitude of babes and babies. In Shakespeare’s time, men demonstrated their success by wearing tights, ruffles and velvet. Poetry was popular in the pub. Pioneer men looked down on any man
All year, Mars has been steadily moving eastward across the sky. Now, it’s flaring up, 10 times brighter than usual. Soon, it will stop, back up, stop again, and return to its eastbound course, performing a sort of Marzy Mambo. Just when you think you understand a thing, it loses its mind. As humans,