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Revisiting a post from 2013 as I recover from shoulder surgery this week. Sometimes I am impatient. I don't want to wait for a thing to...

Cleaning the fish tank is one of those household chores I put off as long as I can until finally my conscience gets to me. Then I roll up...

Notice what you are noticing because the things you pay attention to create your reality. As you leave one year behind again, and look...

We are in a festive season rich with storytelling steeped in miracles. Stories serve many purposes – they teach us lessons, preserve...

In Ken Burns’ new documentary, we learn that Leonardo da Vinci believed there are no lines in nature, just edges. One thing meets...

The holidays abound with rituals and traditions. We can grow so attached to them that we forget how they came to be and why we do them,...

There’s a saying, "If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there." A corollary would be "If you don’t prepare for...

I’ve been thinking a lot about shame this week. Why do we shame each other? Why do people in power (parents, bosses, officials) shame...

Look up in the sky tonight and you will see the full moon waning. As the predominant earthly satellite, humankind has long observed the...

I just read Candide (don’t ask why). Voltaire’s novella was first published in 1759 and it’s one of those books that I think I’ve read...