What if trust weren’t about deciding who is good or bad, but about learning to see people more clearly — and choosing how we wish to engage with them? Trust is one of the most important elements of our relationships. We want to trust our partners, our families, our friends, our coworkers, and the people […]
It’s that time of year again; time for feasting with friends and family in a communal appreciation for those friends and family. These people in our lives give us a sense of meaning and purpose beyond simply surviving and acquiring the latest cool gadgets. Family belonging fills a special part of our core being […]
What is wisdom? When I look it up in the dictionary I get a woefully inadequate definition: Having the quality of being wise. Now that is completely useless! Let’s try the next line: Knowledge of what is true and right coupled with just judgment as to action. Again useless as truth, righteousness, and justice are entirely culturally […]
As I am writing this, I am celebrating my 69th birthday. Today felt like a good time to solidify my thoughts on love. I have avoided using the word love in my writings or conversations for a long time. It has always seemed like the word only invites confusion as everyone seems to have a […]
Life is a curious thing. People can spend their entire life striving for a particular something, and then when they finally achieve it they feel empty and incomplete. Sometimes this is on a very obvious level with things like money. A person may have a lifelong dream to become a millionaire, and then when […]
I was sitting in my homemade heat lamp sauna a couple days ago when an interesting thought/picture came into my head. It was a visual of what looked like a tachometer gauge on a car dashboard. If you have spent your life in automatic transmission cars, you may not have much experience with a tachometer, […]