Year: 2021
Do You Have A Plan?
Throughout my life, I’ve been asked the question, “do you have a plan?” The challenge of planning doesn’t end the older you get. You have to have a plan in life to take you to the next place in your life. Sure, you’ll pivot, dodge and adjust, but it is the plan that will lead you […]
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SNOW—You have to love it…just a little
I grew up in the upstate New York snowbelt. The lake effect moisture would get picked up over the Great Lakes and it would “pour” down on our home in snowflakes the size of a quarter…sometimes half dollars. Seems some parts of the country could use a little snow these days. So much heat…so many fires. All has […]
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Rebound from Discouragement. Get Your Life Back
There are many “voices” that keep us down and out in this world. Negative feedback, failures (which, really, are merely setbacks and learning experiences), bad relationships, bad choices, bad attitude. However, there is one area that covers them all—and if we can just overcome it—-then we are on a path to success, and, realizing our […]
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Do You Carry An “Albatross?”
In the seven part poem, “The Rhime of The Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the main character, the Mariner, is forced by his companions to wear a dead albatross around his neck, after having shot it with a crossbow. His companions thought it bad luck that he shot it, when it had brought them all good luck. The theme of “having an […]
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Individuality In a Group Dynamics Society
Do you have any problems in maintaining your individuality in a world of groups? You know the groups…the entertainment celebrities…the sports figures…the billionaires…the politicians…even the news anchors. These are the people that life focuses on every day. What are they doing?…what are they posting?…what are they saying? If you don’t have a Wikipedia profile, you’re no […]
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Weep For Cities, And Then, Help Them
I grieve for the how there seems to be no value put on human life in the wake of gun violence in the cities of America. I don’t have a degree in criminal science, nor a master’s in public policy, nor a phD in sociology, but I have tried to come up with my own […]
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Living in the present
There are so many distractions in these present times. Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, the amount of noise in a person’s life on any given day is extreme. Our thoughts and eyes dart to and fro’, trying to ascertain the moment in time we’re in, and what we should be focused on. Therein lies the challenge […]
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What does your home smell like?
Do you wonder what makes your home a place of rest? Do you want a home that is a pleasant place you can rest in no matter when you enter, or exit? I ask then, what is the aroma in your home right now? Is it an atmosphere that conjures up thoughts of evergreens, cinnamon, lavender, or the […]
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Handling Uncertainty
Life is not granted to us with advanced notice of what’s to come. We live life knowing that each day is a new one and can be lived enjoyably, with purpose and progress. Others have their own ideals of what makes a life and their expectations for a new day, new week, new month and new year. What is common […]
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Ethics — Vitally Important
No one seems to remember that there is such a thing as ethics. What is ethics, you might ask? ethics [ˈeTHiks] NOUN 1. moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. “medical ethics also enter into the question” · [more] synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · moral stand · moral principles · moral values · [more] 2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral […]
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