Month: July 2016
Hoarding Our Gifts
I was just rereading “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott. It’s a famous how to writing book. I have received this as a gift more than once. Of course it is also a guide on how to live your life wi... Read More
Are You Brave Enough
I was thinking about the shadow exercise from the other day (Curve Ball), and it occurred to me it goes the other way too. You could just as easily pick a person you love and write down all the... Read More
You Are What You Read
I’ve always loved reading, I get that from my mom. She would read to my brother and I all the time. I remember her reading Bambi to the two of us at our summer cottage and missing the devastati... Read More
A Life’s Work
Half Full I’ve never been one of those people who knew exactly what they wanted to be when they grew up. I am envious of these people. They seem to have a life calling. There is a clarity of who... Read More
Second Chances
I was thinking this morning about choices made and paths never taken. I think about questions never asked, or ideas not followed up on, where they might have led. Who might we be today if we did thin... Read More
Waiting For The Third
Sometimes there is nothing to be done but wait. There is a Jungian term called holding the tension. This is polite speak for the times when everything is collapsing all around you and your life is no... Read More
Curve Ball
Okay, now for something completely different. In case you haven’t noticed I’m one of those upbeat, optimistic people who are always drinking out of glasses that are half full. But as we... Read More
What Is Left Unlived
I’ve spent a lot of my life in imitation. I would see someone doing something I found interesting and I’d try to copy them. I can tell you from first hand experience this never works. It m... Read More