Tag: Love

  • Once Upon a Time, There Were Three Little Girls…and I was their Bosley

    Once Upon a Time, There Were Three Little Girls…and I was their Bosley

    Our childhood wasn’t all Charlie’s Angels and Bosley to be sure! We rallied around each other when times were tough.ย  I call them my war buddies because we’ve seen and been through some scary stuff together….I can see when someone has the potential to grow from obscurity to the highest heights…ย  My sisters are such…

  • We DON’T Get To…

    We DON’T Get To…

    Today, I feel compelled to write about what we DON’T GET TO do. We don’t get to be more than we were created to be.ย ..Read more at four4soaring.com

  • Change your lens to see more light.

    Change your lens to see more light.

    Change your lens on life and change your life (and maybe others?) for the better. Read more at http://four4soaring.com .

  • The Struggle is Real…Sometimes…

    The Struggle is Real…Sometimes…

    I am a restless person.  You might even call me “Restless by Nature.” That is not quite as cool as “Naughty By Nature” but I am anything but cool.  This restlessness is all too big a part of being human.  We struggle from the moment we emerge from the womb.  If you believe Maslow’s hierarchy (or…

  • People are more important than things.

    People are more important than things.

    As I prepare to sit through this storm my thoughts and prayers are not for all the THINGS that are already lost and will be lost.

  • Unsunk and unstuck: Open the door to more!

    Unsunk and unstuck: Open the door to more!

    My friends, what I have now realized is that those sunk costs had me sunk.ย  I was drowning in them.ย  I was mired in a morass of my own self-absorption, intent on getting and keeping…

  • Hope prevails at any age

    Hope prevails at any age

    One of the starkest tragedies of our lives is that we are horrible predictors of the future.ย  This affects us in a myriad of mundane and profound ways.ย  We can be hurt by this in the way we choose our kitchen tile or cast our vote, by our inaction around saving and multiplying our money…

  • Don’t Hate…but how?…and why?

    Don’t Hate…but how?…and why?

    When you are lost and you feel like no one is in your corner it is easy to gravitate toward hate.ย  Hate is seductive. Hate is unifying and affirming in a sick sort of way.ย  Hate feels good at the moment your stoking it or feeling it.ย  Hate can be a crucible to burn off,…

  • Do not wish to be…

    Do not wish to be…

    โ€œDo not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.โ€ โ€“ Francis de Sales

  • What’s the alternative to telling someone to shake it off?

    What’s the alternative to telling someone to shake it off?

    What’s the alternative to telling someone to shake it off? When you see someone who consistently falls down, do you lecture them, run the other way, or do you lean in with grace and compassion?