“ You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.” ~ Denis Waitley How many different faces do you have? Or feet, for that matter. Do you always put your best one forward? If you think of yourself as a gem, how many facets do you present to the world? Think about [...]
“ Life is like riding a bicycle.To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein Here’s a question to start your New Year off right – Are you feeling well-balanced as 2024 extends ahead of us? And what does balance mean to you? We are all tiptoeing across the individual tightropes of our [...]
“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~ Clare Boothe Luce Do you ever get mired down in complexity? Does life sometimes seem complicated? Have you ever found an easy answer in the midst of chaos? Our world is a unique place. We exist upon a continuum between an infinite number of unexplainable complexities, [...]
“ There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” ~ Jane Austen How do you say warm, cozy, or comfortable? Does the English language have just the right word to express that sort of indoor wintertime comfort? Perhaps we should look to another language for just the right term? Describing feelings [...]
“ Life is a transition from illusion to consciousness ” ~ Vikram Verma What do you call your watershed moments? Some folks call them life transitions. Rudolph Steiner referred to them as ages and stages. One might even just say it’s all part of growing up. As we go through life, we find [...]
“ If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Do you ever feel like you’re trying to carry 6 pounds of oranges in a 5 [...]
“ Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” ~ Albert Camus Have you had enough of Black Friday? What about Cyber Monday? Or Giving Tuesday? Is there a day of the week that has yet to be appropriated by the gods of commerce? Well, here’s a thought. How [...]
“ Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom ” ~ Marcel Proust 'Tis the season to have gratitude as the attitude, amirite? New Year's is on the horizon, so it's time to stock up the cheer. Much noise is made [...]
“ 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 [...]
