What threatens your wellness threatens your ability to function. It affects your drive and motivation and thwarts your dreams and desires. Being sick throws you out of whack and it too throws off those around you. An illness goes far beyond affecting just you.
Every time my cat walks by me or the couch or my wife or the end table he leave his mark. He glides past the object of his desire and rubs the side of his mouth leaving a bit of saliva for the next feline to recognize another has been by to mark the territory. Now, this may sound a bit unsavory, but it is Mother Nature working her ultimate wisdom. (I’m just grateful...
She was explaining the vast difference between the pace of life in the US and the pace of life in Italy. It was a lesson she was fortunate to have learned so well. Now she successfully separates her work time, her school time and her “me” time. Due to scheduling our paths hadn’t crossed since last summer. I don’t know how we got onto the subject but as I chatted with one of my...
The phone rang and a familiar voice began griping about what she had just done to Outlook. “I don’t know what I did, it was just there and now it’s gone and there’s some sort of message that popped up.” “OK, what did the message say?” “I don’t know, you’re supposed to read those things? Don’t worry about it, I’ll figure it out.” I told her not to hang up, calm down, we can...
One of life’s simple truths is this: You can’t give something to somebody if they don’t want it. And, it matters not how much you believe in your heart of hearts that they would benefit greatly from it, if they aren’t listening, can’t see it, and don’t want it; forget about it. We have reached out to multitudes of people we thought we might be able to assist. Trying to convince someone they need...
You probably remember this poem from somewhere in your school days past. It is one of my favorites. Perhaps it had little meaning to you when you were first asked to read and interpret the poem. How does it speak to you today? Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. The Road Not Taken TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood...
OK, so I’ve started and stopped 6 posts in the last 30 minutes and nothing gets past the first two or three sentences. First it was healthy eating, then social media. Then I tried...
How many times have we told ourselves that we would do something if we could just find the time, when things calm down a bit, when I get around to it. For me, things never seem to "calm down."
It’s just been two weeks since the New Year began and without question most of those New Year resolutions are already written off. Resolutions are just a nice thought, a kind of “really want to” but… and “this year will be different” all rolled up into a distorted fading memory.
