“ The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” ~ Plato When do you get your best ideas? Have you ever paid attention to where or when good ideas appear? Conversely, have you ever noticed how hard it is to come up with a good idea on demand when you’re staring at a blank [...]
“ Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.” ~ Kenneth Frazier If society is like the house we live in, what makes up the timber in the walls? While we are all going about our lives in the various rooms of our societal abode, doing things like making a living, [...]
“ Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” ~ George Herbert What are the tools for your trade? Whatever it is that you do, what [...]
“ There is something particularly special and personal about the circle and how its curves comfortably rule every aspect of our lives.” ~ Kat Lahr Do you ever look at life like a set of circles? The moon orbits around the earth. The earth orbits around the sun. Take a look at your [...]
“ Travel makes one modest.You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert What do you reckon is the best way to increase your understanding of the world? Education is great, but nothing compares with travel, amirite? It’s one thing to simply be a tourist and see the [...]
“ 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 [...]
