“ Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.” ~ Anthony G. Oettinger Have you ever felt like you were in two places at once? What’s it like to have your body in one place and your mind somewhere else? Just where do we fit in the space-time continuum anyway? [...]
“ Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.There is no why.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Do you ever wish you could just slow things down a little bit? Or maybe sometimes you’d be happy if the clock ticked just a wee bit faster? Time is a constant, but your perception of [...]
“ He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Do you consider yourself a helpful person? How often do you get asked for assistance? Why is it sometimes harder to help yourself than other people?It’s a basic part of the human condition to find yourself on either side [...]
“ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett Have you ever decided to pivot? Was it because of a new perspective? Did it make you adjust your priorities? There’s a plethora of possibilities that start with the letter P, but [...]
“ Anatomy is destiny.” ~ Sigmund Freud Where does your brain stop and your body begin? Do your mental processes have a boundary? What do we mean by 'cognition' anyway? Great minds from Plato to Freud have long wrestled with the inner workings of our noggins. The eternal question is how our brain works together with our body to [...]
“ The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Have you ever tried to learn another language? How is language different than other forms of communication? Is there a way to cut through the noise and simply get your message across? There's few things in life that simultaneously [...]
“ We are stardust — We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden....” ~ Joni Mitchell Where do you go to find 'the answer'? How do you even know what to ask? Have you ever noticed that it’s not always the question, but the question behind the question [...]
“ Once you make a decision,the universe conspires to make it happen.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Look ahead of you. What do you see? Now look behind you, notice anything different? Since our lot in life is to move forward, and one of the keys to happiness is making progress, it’s good to [...]
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley Have you ever noticed how small a city feels when you’re popping up out of the subway system? Or how small the world feels when you get off of a jet plane and suddenly everyone speaking a different [...]
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” ~ Jerzy Kosinski Which way does your compass point? How do you know when you’re on track? Do you have a simple system to navigate every aspect of your life? I recently bought my daughter a famous culinary book for her [...]
