Un-Done Things Seeking Comfort in Closure The un-done things of life include two distinct categories: Things never started and yet to be done, and things started that can’t seem to get done. If you ponder this for a second, you’ll understand what I mean. The first one includes everything on our bucket list: the places […]
Many Happy Returns Getting a gift from a person you didn’t expect to, or a gift big- ger than the one you thought was appropriate or getting a gift you didn’t need or want at all, can be stressful and make you feel a little uncomfortable. This time of year, this happens a lot. […]
Unforgotten Love A Perpetual Blessing Young love and new love tend to steal all of the headlines. There is something exhilarating about finding a spark amidst darkness, and once sparked, flames ignite until they roar, burning their mark into the hearts of the new lovers. The nice thing about love, is that this feeling of […]
A Playbook for Change Moving Toward a Path to Happiness Albert Einstein tells us: “We can’t solve today’s problems at the same level of thinking as when we created them.” Hence, if we change our thinking we can solve our problems. But what if we didn’t create the problem to begin with? What if […]
Dealing With a Funk Escaping its hold and influence I’m going to jump to an assumption here that all of us have experienced the reality of being in a “funk.” A funk is feeling low and out of sorts. It can sometimes last for days and getting through it or out of it can be […]
Did You Hear That? A Sixty-Word SZEN Story: * John could not decide. He ran the numbers and weighed all of his options. Both offers were good, though one would force him to move his family. He looked around the house, the pictures of the kids, the marks on the wall measuring their growth, he […]
Keeping the Dream Alive A Sixty-Word SZEN Story: * “Should I jump?” Diane asked nobody in particular. The crowd outside was getting larger and their voices could be heard inside the walls of her home; a home she had lived in forever. Standing at the window she saw the people and heard their cheers, while […]
Lifting Waits A Sixty-Word SZEN Story*: The milestones were all spelled out. They were listed in a very specific order. Do one, then the next, and so on. You were not allowed to jump ahead or skip a step. Dawn was very proud of her plan. All she had to do now was simply […]
Image is Destiny A Sixty-Word SZEN Story*: Tom was vehemently arguing that we’re not just plopped here on this planet with our lives all scripted out before us as if we don’t have any choices or influence on our future. He cited the example of interviewing for a job. How we dress, speak, listen and […]
Here to There A Sixty-Word SZEN Story*: In the movie The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was all set to begin her journey to see the great wizard. All she had to do was follow the yellow brick road. For Carla, the road, to finding the answers she sought, wasn’t yellow, obvious or even visible. Unlike […]