“ Tell me — and I forget,teach me — and I may remember, involve me — and will I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin What’s your secret sauce for learning? Do you have any special shortcuts or tricks up your sleeve that help you gain knowledge or wisdom more quickly? Do you ever reach [...]
“ Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ~ Albert Camus Take a look around you right now. You’re currently in the middle of something. You could be reading this anywhere -- your desk, your easy chair, your kitchen table. But you are also immersed in something, aside [...]
“ The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats What do you love most about travel? Is it the perspective you get from experiencing different cultures? Sampling exotic and delicious foreign cuisines? Perhaps the change of scenery is enough for you. I say [...]
“ It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.” ~ Henri Poincare Intuition. What is it? How important is it? Do you trust it implicitly or do you take it with a grain of salt? Has yours ever led you astray? "Trust your gut" is generally thought to [...]
“ How did it get so late so soon? ” ~ Dr. Seuss It’s a fact of life for every living being. We live inside it, and can never escape it. We measure it obsessively, from the smallest scale to the galactic. If you lose it, there’s no getting it back. We consider [...]
“ We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins "Dreams don’t come true. Dreams are true." So says Q-Jo Huffington, erstwhile friend and tarot-reading sidekick of Gwendolyn Mati, the protagonist (who happens to be you) in Tom Robbins’ farcical novel, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. In an unusual literary [...]
“ Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” ~ José Ortega y Gasset What does it mean to “place value“ on something? As I talked about last week, when it comes to other entities with a life force, there's a lot of communication going on. [...]
“ Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.” ~ Aaron D. O'Connell When it comes to communication, how many different ways do you do it? Aside from speaking, writing, or perhaps composing TikToks or Reels on Instagram, what other ways might you get your point across? More [...]
“ Put your good where it will do the most! ” ~ Tom Wolfe My mom loved soap operas on daytime TV. Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, General Hospital, you name it — back in the 60s and 70s she was keeping up. It always struck me as a little strange, [...]
“ Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” ~ Dr Seuss How often do you make time for pure imagination? In today’s fast-paced world of breaking news and over-eager influencers, is there still room for flights of fancy anymore? What [...]
