I remember the month, although not the specific day or hour, when I crossed one of my personal Rubicons. On one side of that border, I could refer to humanity as ‘mankind’ and on the other, I couldn’t. On one side I was perfectly willing to accept the semantic practice of referring to groups of …
I love seeing the bumper sticker, ‘Practice Random Acts of Kindness.’ (Among other things, it beats most of the alternatives on the bumpers of pick-up trucks and SUVs here in Colorado.) I love the idea of random acts of kindness. But the fact is, 99.44% of them are not random at all. A week ago, …
Yes, I have a story for this week — if I had the time to edit it properly. Yes, I can produce a guided meditation for the fifth energy node — with an hour to devote to it. However, my truth is that it is Wednesday and I am still working on the fiber panel …
Dick grew up as an only child of an older couple. His parents were not bad people, but neither of them knew a thing about raising children. They both came from abusive families and never intended to have a child, both fearful about the possibility of repeating their own childhood. Once they found had a …
Those of us who were alive (and old enough to be aware) when John Kennedy was elected President, were born into a pre-space flight world. Space flight was one of Kennedy’s agendas as the nation’s executive, and his youth, verve, and drive were part of what fueled us and propelled us to the moon and …
Several months ago, I read a delightful story about a visit the Dalai Lama made to Colorado in the mid-1970s. During the trip, he wanted to see a ski slope in action. He was not quite as well known at the time and his life was not as scheduled and hedged around with protocol, so …
I’m still thinking about consequences, bottom lines, and legacies [See: The Bottom Line from last week]…and (not surprisingly) that leads me to think about personas. What are the stories I tell about myself that have led me to a personal image that my family and friends, my colleagues and mentors would recognize as ‘Andrea’? What …
We sat together and cried for almost two hours, sometimes holding hands, sometimes wiping our eyes or noses with tissues (we emptied a whole box). And two days later we did it all over again. She is a professor with a doctorate in the hard sciences. Years ago, as an undergraduate, she made the decision she …
What is your bottom line? When all is said and done, what do you consider the primary, the most important consideration, the ultimate value of your life? Or let’s come at “bottom line” slightly differently, What is the benefit (profit, net gain) you are leaving to the world? Or how about this: What is your …
I don’t know about you, but winter is a season when my energy is low and while lying dormant may be what I need to do, my frontal lobe just wants to keep clicking over: producing, checking things off the list, producing, scheduling tasks, producing, creating, producing. My body and spirit know they need renewal; …