“ The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you like to roll out the red carpet? Swing around the welcome wagon? Pull out all the stops? (Just where do all these old clichés come from anyway?) It’s getting to be that time of year, where [...]
“ Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” ~ New England Proverb What’s your first place? Your second? Or for that matter, your third? And no, while you may have won a blue ribbon or a trophy at some point during your life, that’s not what I’m talking [...]
“ Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” ~ Stephen Hawking Do you ever feel boggled by current events or the news of the day? Does it seem like things are more bizarre than ever? What does it take to maintain your optimism in this day and age? Chances are good that [...]
“ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~ Desmond Tutu What makes you tick? What frequency are you transmitting on? Do you have a unique wavelength? To dive deeper into the metaphor: What is your operating system? If humans are the “hardware”, then might language [...]
“ Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw How do you feel when you encounter something familiar? Isn't it nice to know how something works or how it’s going to operate? It’s human nature to reach for the tried-and-true before venturing [...]
“ You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.” ~ John Travolta What do you do when you’re trying to figure something out? Do you find yourself needing that one piece of information that will make sense of something? Are you able to easily ask for help or [...]
“ Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” ~ Yoko Ono Have you ever noticed how sometimes you’ll think there’s an obvious connection between two things only to find that there’s not? Or conversely, how something totally unrelated will prove to be the missing piece? Puzzling as it may be, it just seems [...]
“ You can't help getting older ,but you don't have to get old.” ~ George Burns How do we know when someone is over the hill? What exactly does “washed up” mean anyway? Is math and the simple counting of years really the best measure? Today I’m going to make the argument that [...]
“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ~ Alexander Smith Have you ever been recognized by surprise? What’s the difference between keeping a low profile and being anonymous? And when is it wiser to fly under the radar? Way back in the 60s Andy [...]
“ My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.” ~ Marlo Thomas What's something that makes a huge difference in your life, but you probably don’t think about it much, especially while you’re doing it? When we [...]
