“ Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” ~ Robert Burns Just a quick note to let you know that in observance of Labor Day the United Newsletter Self-Employed Editors Nationwide, (U.N.S.E.E.N. Local Chapter 23) has officially giver your humble scribe the day off. Please pay no mind to the fact that [...]
“ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Everyone has them. Not everyone likes them. You can’t escape them. You may as well make the best of them. What might I be talking about? Responsibilities, of course! But what does that actually mean? Let’s unpack that word [...]
“ So many books, so little time.” ~ Frank Zappa I’ll bet you like to think of yourself as intelligent, right? Well, sure, I would imagine that everyone does. So let’s break that word down a little bit, what does intelligence really mean? To begin with, in our linear left-brain-oriented Western way of thinking, [...]
“ Where words leave off, music begins.” ~ Heinrich Heine Are you by any chance the type of person who works with clients? And if not you, maybe you know someone who does? Or perhaps you sometimes spend one-on-one time with a counselor or a coach or a therapist or a body worker [...]
“ The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~ Alan Watts Some things never change, right? Then again, conventional wisdom says that the only thing constant is change. So which is it? What’s the difference? How do we draw [...]
“ A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ~ John Lennon What’s more important? Audience size, or engagement? I know a lot of you on this list are self-promoters or entrepreneurs of some sort or another. You’ve got something to offer, be it a [...]
“ We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” ~ John Archibald Wheeler Have you ever looked at something and wondered just how in the heck the laws of physics actually work? There’s a big dance going [...]
“ This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~ Henry David Thoreau When it comes to your belongings, do you consider yourself a collector? Or do you simply accumulate things? Some folks are able to go through life barely owning anything, while others tend to amass vast amounts of stuff. You [...]
“ The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ~ Carl Sagan Is it just me, or is the Full Moon energy really powerful this time around? More often than not when there’s a big full moon in the sky I find [...]
“ The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground..” ~ Rumi Do you ever think about compost? I know, I know, not the first thing that comes to mind on Independence Day morning. But then again, perhaps it’s a useful analogy. First there’s a [...]
