Beverly D. Flaxington's Blog, page 14
October 3, 2011
Watch Your Mouth!
I was in a restaurant the other day and a little boy, around 6 years old, was giving his mother a very hard time. She was getting more and more frustrated. He said something to her that she obviously didn’t like, and she responded in a loud voice, “Watch your mouth!” She peppered her statements with a few choice words that I cannot repeat here in my blog, but suffice to say that she probably wasn’t watching her own mouth very well at that point!
September 12, 2011
Whoops! Did I Say I Was Coming to YOUR Wedding?
One of the interesting things about understanding other people is having the chance to watch what others do – and, often times, observe how disconnected they are from their impact on other people. We all have moments of “It’s all about me” – it is secret number one, after all. But some people truly look at the world through the lens of “me” and have little ability to see how their actions impact others.
September 6, 2011
"Baby on Board"
My husband has always scoffed at the people who hang these yellow signs in the window of their car. Not that he doesn’t believe it’s important to drive safely around people with babies in their cars, but rather he feels that we should take care ALL of the time – not just when someone has a baby on board. I’d never given much thought to it either way, but a recent situation brought an irony to me.
August 29, 2011
You Can Say Anything
I love mysteries. Right now I’m reading a great one by Harlan Coben called “Caught.” I won’t give away much of the book, because it’s such a good read, but I do want to talk about something that happens in the book: There’s a series of people who are having their reputations besmirched because of online, anonymous postings about them. The postings accuse them of doing terrible things and talk about them in a very negative manner.
August 8, 2011
What is Compassion?
The dictionary definition for the word “compassion” is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. We tend to approach compassion only when we are feeling sorry for someone or sympathizing with their pain.
