When the COVID-19 Crisis is Over What Will Have Changed?
I’ve been thinking about what “The Great Pause” from the COVID-19 Pandemic is going to teach us in the end. What will be different when we re-open the country, the world? Will we just go back to our old ways, or will we restructure our lives from the lessons we have learned? I, for…
Love Doesn’t Hurt: Lack of Love Does
I’ve had an epiphany! The fog has lifted, and the clouds have parted, at least in my mind, and as cheesy as it sounds, the lyrics of I Can See Clearly Now are looping through my brain. I have had this type of realization or insight before, but only once as enlightening as this one,…
What is Love?
According to psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, love is an emotion. When we experience this emotion we feel amazing. Though we often think it is, love is not exclusive. While we love our family and friends, and we believe what we have with our mate is unique, love can be experienced with anyone. When we realize that…
The Purpose of Life is to Make a Difference
“ I cannot believe the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” ~Leo Rosen I know I have…
What Are You Willing to DO to Make Your Dreams Come True?
“Do or do not. There is no try.” ~ Yoda I have read hundreds of self-help books over the years. I know that many of those books had helpful information in them. Many had exercises that, for the most part, I didn’t do, and not surprisingly, I can look back with certainty and say that…
Being YOU is an Act of Love
“At some point, now or later, you are going to have to risk BEING YOU in order to find out who that really is.” ~ Cheri Huber Can you recall a time when you hid your true feelings from another person because you believed that saying what you felt would mean rejection? It is…
A Truth-Telling Assignment
In the film Runaway Bride, a newspaper columnist, played by Richard Gere, points out to Julia Robert’s character, aka the Runaway Bride, that she doesn’t even know what kind of eggs she likes. He had questioned all of her former beaus, and each one noted that she liked her eggs cooked the same way he…
A Compassionate World Starts with How I Talk to Myself
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”~Buddha What an idiot! Most of us would cringe at…
There is Nothing Wrong with You
“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your life has been anything like mine, you have received a lot of messages which make you believe that in some ways, or maybe in many ways, you just don’t measure…
Note by the Sugar Bowl
If I had to leave a note by the sugar bowl on the kitchen table and that is all I could tell anyone about life before I left, what would I say? As if the pen in my hand began to write beyond my thoughts beyond any part of the me that looks in a…