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Before You Stop Taking Advice

This is the time of year when I get to the point that I feel that if one more person gives me advice, I think I might explode. This is laughable because I learned a long time ago that I am full of advice. And I like to give it. However, by late November I […]

Are You Hiding From Monsters?

I imagined little monsters, fairies, and witches walking by my house wanting something from me and I was terrified. So terrified, I was huddled behind the couch in the dark. As I huddled behind the couch, I knew I was being irrational. No one would think I was home. After all, it was just children […]

You Are Time’s Master

We were sharing snail jokes. One of my favorites is what a snail would say if she was riding on top of a turtle. The answer I loved was “Wheeee!” But there is another punchline to this joke. In this one, the snail says to the turtle, “Slow down you lunkhead.” For a snail traveling […]

But Are We Human

In a world that seems to have turned upside down and has a massive and ugly dividing line between so many people, perhaps it is helpful to look both backward and forward. Did you know that America was entirely up in arms about the possibility of a Catholic being elected for office back in 1928? […]

Do You Have To Take It Home?

Just because a watermelon calls you, you don’t have to take it home. This is a critical thing to know. And of course, I’m not talking just about watermelons. Come with me. I promise it will make sense. As long as I have been buying watermelons, I’ve bought them in a particular way. And I […]

The Two Word Key To Everything - The Shift

How many times have you tried to change someone, or even yourself, and failed miserably? Without knowing a single thing about what happened, or what you were trying to do, I know why it probably didn’t work as well as you wanted it to. I recently decided that I wanted to stop getting in my […]

Let’s Not Forget To Sing - The Shift

I could barely see its tail sticking up in the air. The rest of the cardinal was hidden in the leaves of the burning bush that grows outside of our bedroom window. In the winter, when there are no leaves on the bush, we can easily see a variety of birds coming and going as […]

Ditch Dichotomy And Be Like A Duck - The Shift

We live in an age of dichotomy. On one hand, we have grown men—who should know better but apparently don’t—threatening each other as if they were schoolboys in a playground. Little boys. Raised fists. Fighting for—okay, whatever they are fighting for doesn’t matter. What matters is they act as if their actions affect only each […]

I Want To Be More Like Water - The Shift

As I prepared to write about my desire to be more like water, a gentle mist rose outside my window to remind me of another way that water transforms itself, and yet remains water. Oh, how I wish to be more like water; flowing, gentle, patient, consistent, and ultimately always effective in carrying out its […]

Defeat The Invisible Enemy Within - The Shift

Did you know that there is an invisible enemy within that needs to be acknowledged before it can be defeated? Nobody is immune. The effects of it show up in everyone’s life. It keeps things as they always were. It creates fear of the unknown. It allows ignorance to thrive. It’s called stasis. Stasis—that force […]