Healing: True Woo, Placebo, and Kindness
We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...
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- Aug 30
- 5 min
Anti-Aging: Maybe Some Blue Zones AND Mindset
Age is just a number. Embrace every stage of life and never let your dreams fade away. Carol Channing, Broadway star who continued...
- Jul 22
- 7 min
"Born Bad": Can We Adopt A More Helpful, Accurate, and Life-Giving Story?
"I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's...
- Jun 22
- 7 min
Relationships, Flourishing, and Seeing With Our Autobiography
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin About forty years ago I had a quick conversation with a friend. He...
- Mar 28
- 5 min
A Bigger Story than from Dust to Dust? Let's Hear from a Raindrop
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last....
- Mar 25
- 7 min
Impossibilities
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and...
- Mar 11
- 4 min
Rose, Thorn, Bud: Self-Regulation Tools for Flourishing
Directing your attention toward the most important object of your choosing - and then sustaining that attention - is the most...
- Feb 17
- 5 min
Beating Bad to Bits: The Rule of Four and the Negative Golden Rule
"That which is to you hateful do not to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary on it; go, learn!" Hillel, renowned...
- Jan 18
- 5 min
No More Bad Tricks: Mindfulness and Questioning Everything...Including Aging
The more we realize that most of our views of ourselves, of others, and of presumed limits regarding our talents, our health, and our...
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Can You See The Water You Swim In?
I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. Marshall McLuhan, writer My parents were concerned about...
- Dec 22, 2023
- 4 min
Can You See What I See? Questions that Help
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo When John read my last blog, he felt sad. First, for him...
- Nov 21, 2023
- 4 min
Is It Alive? And Other Soul Stuff
In the world we everywhere find clear signs of an order in accordance with a determinate purpose, carried out with great wisdom —Immanuel...
- Nov 17, 2023
- 5 min
Where's the Pony? Choosing Useful Mindsets and Mental Filters
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost Supposedly President...
- Nov 14, 2023
- 5 min
Your Mindset is...Everything?
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, novelist and playwright Think...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
Seeing Rightly, Taming Each Other
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often....
- Nov 14, 2022
- 4 min
Choosing To See The Gift
"When you persuade yourself that you "get to do something rather than "have to," you can find a silver lining." Josh King...
- May 23, 2022
- 4 min
Stop Gritting Your Teeth and Start Looking For Gold
"I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search, finding beauty where I did not want to look." - Suzy Kassem, 'Rise Up...
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
Unchecked Assumptions Can Screw Up The Works
"It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind." Sebastian Thrun, CEO, entrepreneur, computer scientist Unchecked...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Life, Truth, Fairness - It's Tricky
“In this treacherous world/Nothing is the truth nor a lie./Everything depends on the color/Of the crystal through which one sees it.” ―...
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