Letters For the Daughters: Stepping on Bumblebees

Here is an imperative: you must be the agent of change in your life. Remember always that you can make decisions, that you can make choices. If nothing else, you can choose where you're going to direct your attention. That's such a critical aspect of life, yet it's easy to forget.

I forgot that yesterday, and was having quite a bit of a bad day. Railing against fate, cursing the finite nature of human existence, that sort of thing. My anger and my despair completely controlled my attention. An...