Sometimes it seems difficult to distinguish or differentiate between one day and another. We live in a routinized world where our daily duties become our daily habits and our roles assume a familiarity which may result in our longing, our yearning for something new, exciting, exhilarating, or at best, stimulating in our lives. We wait […]
Month: October 2015
Exciting Announcement!
Hi Friends, I have an exciting new announcement… I am now on YouTube! I began this as another way to share my thoughts, ideas, opinions, and life stories with you. I realize that we all have so many rich life experiences to discuss and examine and that we are learning how these shape us physically, […]
Sunday Mornings
There is something very special about Sunday mornings – no matter what time of year. It is unusually calm and peaceful. The traffic is much lighter than it is during the week. There is a stillness that allows me to appreciate, refresh and reenergize, that allows me at leisure the preceding future and prepare for […]
New Book, New World
I don’t know if many of you know this, but I wrote Katherine: A Woman of Vision in 1982. I met Katherine when she was 79. I was 28 years old. I was introduced to her by my college friend, Michele, who had been a student of Katherine’s for some time. She told me about […]
The Fine Art of Having “Fun”
Having “fun” may not be as easy as you might think. It requires just the right number and variety of ingredients – a fine mix of humor, amusement, laughter, pleasure (emotional and/or physical) engaging in an activity that makes you happy, optimistic, and hopeful, a winning combination of time, place and the compatibility and companionship […]
Humility
This is truly a tough one to incorporate into our psyche and behavior. It impacts our view of life, our place in the world, the role(s) we adopt through our lives Oh, it is easy to feign humility, bot not easy to live with or live by. Humility comes from our essential understanding of our […]
In God’s Time, Not Mine
For many years, I have received these words of wisdom from many different sources. In theory, I acknowledged that they made a lot of sense. In practice, not so much! I was far too ambitious and impatient to wait for “God’s time”. I was determined to succeed in spite of God’s slow response to help […]
Patience
One of the most difficult challenges of my life has been to learn PATIENCE. Patience with my accomplishments to first manifest and then affect and inspire others. Patience to deal with the failure of a colleague or co-worker to achieve what they set out to achieve. Patience with the yet-to-be-be, hoped for outcome of our […]