“ You’ve got to bloom where you’re planted.” ~ Rafi Metz Are you a nomad? Do you have roots? How’s your adaptability? Join me, if you will, in a few thoughts about nature. It’s on the front burner today, with no pun intended in much of the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps you reside in [...]
“ I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.” ~ George Harrison Have you ever witnessed a kerfuffle? How do you handle friction when it comes your way? Are peace and turmoil two sides of the same coin? I’m sure you’ve been [...]
“ Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.” ~ Cory Doctorow What’s your rhythm? Have you found your groove? Are you spiraling up or going round in circles? Anna Halprin was famous for saying “Your body is a microcosm of the [...]
“ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. ” ~ Orson Welles What's your story? Does your narrative change very often? How does it relate to your spirit? Everything that you do comes with a story. It's the same with everything that happens to you. These [...]
“ Let us love out loud every chance we get; believe in everything we feel; and have faith in where we are. ” ~ Bella Bloom Do you like deadlines? Are you 'pressure prompted'? How do you approach the big transitions that life gives you? Try as you might, there's just no way [...]
“ You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” ~ Jimmy Dean Do you enjoy the feeling of anticipation? Does it sometimes come with shades of trepidation? What’s so important about expectation? You, being human, have some [...]
“ We become aware of the void as we fill it.” ~ Antonio Porchia How do you focus your attention? Where do you put your awareness? What’s the difference and why is it so important? Attention gets a lot of airtime in today’s world. You hear terms bandied about like “the attention economy“ [...]
“ If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ” ~ Bruce Lee Do you ever feel less than loose? Sometimes stiff, stuck, or even brittle? How do you approach flexibility? Life can be rolling along like [...]
“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust Where have you been? Where do you want to go? How far is the distance between the two? If you had a globe handy when you were a kid, you might have played [...]
“ The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” ~ Joseph Campbell What are you 'into'? Do you have a particular 'field of interest'? Where do you dance 'off the floor'? “A boys gotta have a hobby!” an odd friend of mine used to say. [...]
