“ Don't go through life — grow through life.” ~ Eric Butterworth “Listen to your elders!” You’ve probably heard some version of this advice most of your life, right? After all, it’s timeless wisdom that we do well to heed. But it’s funny how life works, one day we are youngsters, looking up [...]
“ I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.” ~ Joan Rivers Have you ever turned down an invitation? Did you have a good reason or were you just not feeling it? How did you feel about it later? Getting invited to [...]
“ Our permanent address is tommorrow.” ~ Marshall McLuhan Today I’m going to go meta on you. No, I’m not talking about the big umbrella hovering over some of the big social media and communications platforms. Today’s newsletter is going to be about newsletters. A peek into the mirror, if you will. Like virtually [...]
“ There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley What are some things that cannot be bought? When you hear the word priceless what does that mean to you? How do you assign value anyway? My inquiry today [...]
“ When you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself.” ~ Polly Bergen What are your yardsticks in life? How do you recognize the changes you go through? Have you ever felt surprised upon seeing an old friend after a long absence? Like many things in this world, there [...]
“ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~ Desmond Tutu Do you ever get the itch to appreciate the whole human race in its widest variety? If the world is one big dance floor, we've all got upwards of eight billion other folks pulsating upon [...]
“ We do not remember days,we remember moments.” ~ Cesare Pavese Do you ever find yourself "outside of yourself"? Where exactly does the locus of your reality reside? Is it fixed or mutable and do you have some degree of agency as to it's position? It's an odd phenomenon to notice just how [...]
“ There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.” ~ Yoko Ono Well, I had a whole ’nother subject worked up for today’s newsletter, but then I edited today’s Spotlight feature and shifted gears. I’m taking a detour [...]
“ Life itself is the proper binge.” ~ Julia Child When is a habit more than a habit? What makes an everyday activity rise above the daily routine? Why is presence such a big factor in creating the sublime? In other words, today's meditation on your daily dance of life is all about [...]
“ Courage is knowing what not to fear.” ~ Plato "What’s the biggest life lesson you’ve learned so far in 2024" That was the pointed question posed to me and my sweetheart by her inquisitive Gen-Z daughter the other day. Kudos to her for having the courage to dig a little deeper in [...]
