What Condition Is My Condition In?

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” Familiar words. Famous words. Words that speak of contemplation and assessment.

Socrates embedded the premise within his students that, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” a philosophy that carried such value as to be passed down through centuries of time.

Enlightenment

It was one of my favorite songs in the late seventies. I guess it was a favorite of many, as it did top the “billboard charts” for a while in 1976. Originally released by a young New Jersey artist named Bruce Springsteen in 1973, the song caught fire as the second Springsteen tune that Manfred Mann had covered, and became the first and only song ever penned by Springsteen to make it to number one. 

I Was Doing THAT. . . Until I Started Doing THIS

Side Tracked? Distracted? Diverted? Absent Minded? Forgetful? Unable to Focus? Pull up a chair. You’ve got plenty of company. And, they all tilt at the same windmills.

In Search of Happy Endings

“I’ve learned my lesson!” You have? How often are we guilty of using that phrase repeatedly to reference the same “got burned” experience without ever breaking the cycle?

Follow me as we go. . . In Search of Happy Endings   

Wake Up Call

Daybreak spawned horror and disbelief. Normal faded without echo. And, the eyes of a nation were held hopelessly captive in stunned silence. Within a few short hours one September morning, graphic reality forever changed our world.

Ten Things I Believe About Love and Kindness

“For now, we see through a glass, darkly. . . 

But then. . .  face to face.

Now, I know in part. . . 

But then. . . I shall know; even as I am known.

And now abideth faith. . . hope. . . and love. . . these three.

But the greatest of these. . . is love.”

- Paul

Emotional Ghosts: Friendship / Acceptance

Judgmental by nature, we label others. We size them up, dress them down and figure them out. We form opinions based on perception. We’re not biased. On the contrary, we have a checklist of good, bad and scary reserved for just about anyone who crosses our path. Yet, we ourselves hunger for acceptance and long for that one soul who approves of us completely, without exception or reservation – a true friend.

Living Life An Inch Away From Where You Want To Be

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

– Leonardo da Vinci -

Ten Things I Believe To Be Undeniable

1. I believe that while we cannot control everything that happens to us, we do possess the power to control how we react to it. Life is little bits and pieces of what happens to us mixed inextricably with much larger bits and pieces of how we respond. EVERY day you can CHOOSE your attitude.

Eliminate The Hay & Find That Needle

Two weeks into the year and my 16 year old step-daughter was working her way through a major emotional experience. She was cleaning her room. I’m not talking about just picking up the clothes, making the bed, or rearranging the thirty-seven bottles of lotion and body spray that orbit her TV.