SEEING STARS ANEW
My favorite health benefit of smoking cigars is the opportunity they offer simply to think. A few nights ago, I mulled over Paul’s recent blog on love and home with a Cusano 18 under the stars. The meditation on gratitude, trust, and starlight brought to mind one of my favorite Robert Frost poems, A Question: A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul and body scars Were not too… Read More
“BE THE BEACON”
“Each day try to find a way to rescue someone. A smile might be a lifeline, for others a soft touch or a hug. So many of us are lost out at sea, be the beacon.” Reader Michael Gullickson sent this in the other day in the form of a comment, in response to Carol Maxym’s inspirational blog. We in turn made it Friday’s affirmation. It jumped off the screen in the most succinct, eloquent honest way. It… Read More
GLADNESS AND GRATITUDE
I didn’t see it happen. I only saw what happened afterwards. The morning was Hawaii paradise picture perfect (and if you’ve ever been here, you know what that means). I was overtly gladdened by the clarity of the blue sky, the low tide, the soft breeze, the warming sun. I start to say I was ‘grateful’ for the day, but that isn’t accurate because there is no one to whom to be grateful. It just is. Glad not grateful. Clarity… Read More
WHAT’S ON TV?
There was a time when censorship in this country was beyond ridiculous. Ozzie and Harriet never awoke in the same bed. They were married 25 years or more with two boys and a life that tossed morality and common sense at you in every episode. I got more parenting from the Nelsons than I did from my own Mom and Dad. For the most part the rigid conservative grip has been loosened to a very liberal setting where language,… Read More
WHEN ARE YOU AT YOUR BEST?
Part of living a happy, healthy and productive life is figuring out when we are at our best for certain tasks and trying as hard as we can to work our life around that. It’s not always easy. Most of us have jobs that require us to show up in some form or another, others who rely on us, homes to maintain, bodies to keep healthy and minds and souls that need to be nourished. Oh right and sleep.… Read More
THE LAST LAUGH
We all played hide and go seek when we were kids. I hated it. The tension of being in a closet or behind a tree or couch when someone was coming close always became too much and I’d begin to giggle. Major “kid in church, stop it or you’re gonna get a whipping” giggles. When I laugh that hard two things happen quickly. I can’t breath and I can’t see. Wait, three things. Because, I also can’t speak. Can’t… Read More
DOUBLE, DOUBLE OTHER PEOPLES’ TROUBLES
….can enter your life and make it bubble…… Who amongst us has not experienced this? Here we are tra-la-la bumbling along dealing with our shit, facing our issues, trying to sort through the daily pimples on the skin of our lives and pop them before they fester. We’re working with our loved ones, workmates, roommates, randomly frazzled friends and sometimes strained relations in as mature and self-aware manner as we can. We’re attempting and more often than not succeeding… Read More
“FAR SIGHTED!”
I’m not athletic. I don’t know where I fell on the scale of jock-potential but I’d imagine it’s a number that would produce a big sigh followed by an accepting “Oh Well.” I always felt a little relieved to be picked last for team sports in school and the bench was much more comfortable and less dangerous than the playing field. I was king of the bad bounce. I knew that jammed thumbs and dropped fly balls were waiting… Read More
BUILDING TRUE WEALTH – DR. DAN’S THREE ECONOMIES
Thank you Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson for having blessed and enriched us all with the new website “Gratitude and Trust ”. I look forward to reading the 2014 release of your book as well. I am honored and grateful again in accepting your invitation to become a Gratitude and Trust guest author. In this first writing I plan to share some simple secrets of building true wealth. I hope by the time you finish reading this that you… Read More
DO IT EVERYDAY
While it’s important to have a life that is as textured and varied as possible and to also be flexible and nimble enough to handle the ups and downs that come our way, it is essential for us to have certain things we do every day. A few daily rituals ground us , give us a schedule we control and nourish us. It’s proven that children who grow up in households where everyone eats dinner around the table at… Read More