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The Great Change

Change Happens. Change can be difficult. We all experience it. Life and circumstances happen. Much of it we cannot control. As children, we could not prevent our parents from divorcing. We could not understand why our friends from elementary school stopped wanting to hang out with us when we reached junior high. These changes in … Continue reading The Great Change →

Messy Mind

What a mess! My home office, which is also where my clothes closet is located, is a disaster zone. Papers in piles, files shoved in random places, including on the floor, clothes strewn on my chair, and stacks of our years worth of our children's' school artwork everywhere. This room looks like a scene from … Continue reading Messy Mind →

Take a Walk

Sometimes I need to get away. I feel trapped when I am in the office for hours. It’s not the work that bothers me. It’s the confinement. There is also sometimes an atmosphere in the office that is tense and suffocating. I can’t control how others are feeling and the negative vibes that they are … Continue reading Take a Walk →

Grounding While Grounded

Life has changed. This Pandemic has limited our freedom to move about town, see friends and family, and go out to eat. Other than work, at least for those of us fortunate enough to be an "essential business", we are told to stay home. It feels so much like the punishment we received as children … Continue reading Grounding While Grounded →

Serenity

Silence

The Language of Silence

"Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation." - Father Thomas Keating. Throughout my life, I have spent a lot of time in nature. As a young boy, I would play in the woods and creek behind our neighborhood. When I was a teenager, I worked on my grandfather's farms. In college...well, … Continue reading The Language of Silence →

Kindness Matters

Our family tries to have dinner together every night. This is our time together, without the distraction of television, video games, or phones. We tell each other about our days, what we have coming up, and pick on their mother. It is sometimes difficult to extract information from them. I had been asking the same … Continue reading Kindness Matters →

In Re: Each Other

When my youngest son is upstairs in our house, he wants someone up there with him. This is especially so when he is showering. The other day, I was on upstairs watch while he was in the shower. To pass the time, I was sitting on the bed and scrolling through Twitter. Up to that … Continue reading In Re: Each Other →