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Last week, I bought roses so I could have a fresh bouquet in my house for a guest. They were very pretty, pink and white in this case....

Sometimes I think we all need a little friction. If everything is going smoothly, that's great. Fine. But, often, there are times when...

Sometimes you are like a boulder in the stream. Resolute. Steadfast. The stream may rush past you, hardly taking notice that you are...

Happy Memorial Day. May you set aside a private moment today to remember those men and women, so many in or barely out of their teens,...

Many times, I’ve written about opening up the space between stimulus and response. I’ve written about keeping an open mind, the value of...

Every Friday I read a poem in a group setting as a contemplative practice . I read repeatedly, slowly, and we listen and, eventually,...

Revisiting a post from several years ago where I introduced Alfred Korzybiski . In his early 20th century work on general semantics, a...

Imagine you are on a long-planned, long-awaited vacation in a foreign country. You have a limited amount of time to visit the sites you...

It's been a busy day and I'm feeling it. So, I'm taking the pressure off myself rather than force myself to write something that isn't up...

When I was a young teenager, I heard this adage: There is nothing that is certain; therefore, it is not certain that nothing is certain....