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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....

There was a time when you could not walk and then you learned how. There was a time when you could not speak, and then you learned how....

The expression “be careful what you wish for” is usually spoken as a caution. For example, are you wishing for more free time? Sounds...

Last week, I read two different passages that helped me put things in perspective, mainly because one was written probably near the...