Category: Blog Post

  • A mom for all seasons

    A mom for all seasons

    If many of you were to write a blog about your mom and titled it ” A mom for all seasons” I suspect your story might be about one special woman who showered you with unconditional love, who was your rock, your inspiration and a guiding light in your life. Still others of you might…

  • Surviving change without going ape

    Surviving change without going ape

    How many times have we left for work, fully intending to play the part of the ever-composed, quietly observant, always benevolent Jane Goodhall, only to find ourselves at the end of the day, flinging feces at our teammates in a primitive display of dominance and one-upmanship? โ€œYou cannot get through a single day without having an…

  • Happy birthday in heaven Dad !

    Happy birthday in heaven Dad !

    Old School : family film with Dad My Dad would have been 75 today if my โ€œgoesintasโ€ are correct? I wish he would have had a chance to see my, my sisters and my step brother and step sisterโ€™s families grow and soar! I’m thankful my dad captured these moments of my earliest childhood on…

  • What are you choosing to take with you?

    What are you choosing to take with you?

    Do you need all that junk you are carrying around? How much of what you encounter every day is because of what you choose to take with you everywhere you go? Luke Skywalker: What’s in there? (Motioning toward a cave) Yoda: Only what you take with you. (Luke grabs his belt with lightsaber and blaster).…

  • Pushing people into the chasm of tension as an act of service.

    Pushing people into the chasm of tension as an act of service.

    Once, I thought all tension was “bad” or “negative.” I was under the assumption that making others uncomfortable (or my making a mistake) was always a “mark against me on the scoreboard of life.” This could be because I am innately, at least according to many of the personality inventories I’ve taken the last 40…

  • The Colonel of Truth and Our Bias in the War Against Him

    The Colonel of Truth and Our Bias in the War Against Him

    Before my inner critic had a name, I called him Comrade Chatterbox. This is the story of the Colonel he locked away, and how you free yours.

  • Is blind faith what itโ€™s all about?

    Is blind faith what itโ€™s all about?

    Faith is not blind. It sees. Where we falter, it renews. I have always been fascinated by dogma. Fundamentalism is something of a preoccupation of mine. So much so that I used to equate those two things with Faith and in particular following Jesus. I used to think that there was a requirement to believe…

  • Why do we run from things rather than toward something greater than ourselves?

    Why do we run from things rather than toward something greater than ourselves?

    What is it about our human nature that is so stoked in fear that we are constantly looking for any excuse to find the exit? What saturates our brains in flight or fight neuropathy so much that it feels like we are always either defending our flank or leaping like an antelope for the safety…

  • Slapped in the face with the mirror of “for” vs “from.”

    Slapped in the face with the mirror of “for” vs “from.”

    I write two blogs. This one and one for work. This one is called Four4Soaring, as you know, and the one at work is called Friday Food For Thought. I suppose, something about “F” sounds and the word “for” just speak to me. I think it is because I do my best to be ”…

  • The power of repetition : a satirical shark tale

    The power of repetition : a satirical shark tale

    …And now this from a white paper I found on medieval repetitive rituals – here is my take on its implications on the Baby Shark YouTube viral phenomenon Baby shark doo doo doo doo do do …… (repeat x infinity)