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"Survival of the Kindest": Why It is So Dang Hard; A Cartoon to Help, Some Seeds to Plant, and a Rule to Follow (For Jimmy and Me and Maybe You)
Those communities which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best . – Charles Darwin "Ol farmr"...
Aug 274 min read


What Do You Really Need? And How to Be Happy, Stop Wrecking Your Relationships, and Causing General Chaos
“Everything We Do Is an Attempt to Meet a Need.” Marshall Rosenberg I’m going to share a story. Like the previous blog, this isn’t the...
Jul 114 min read


How Practicing “the Virtues” Heals Us
The good life is found in the small practice of universal virtues that align the body, mind, and spirit. After talking to several people...
Jun 76 min read


Where is the Path You are Following Taking You? Ways of Life That Lead to Flourishing
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes...
Jun 56 min read


Arise! Dawn Has Come! And A Multi-vitamin
Darkness is at its deepest, just before sunrise. Voltaire There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. ...
Apr 206 min read


An Ancient Commandment for Flourishing
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a...
Apr 47 min read


Hear! Hear! A Compassion Pep Talk
R eceiving kindness, gentleness, warmth and compassion tells the brain that the world is safe and other people are helpful rather than...
Mar 198 min read


Ailing? Write Yourself A Social Prescription
Instead of asking "what's the matter with you?" ask patients "what matters to you?" Dr. Sam Everington, Founding Social Prescribing...
Jan 217 min read


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...
Jun 22, 20247 min read


How To Get Lucky: the Research and Practice
When it comes to luck, make your own. – Bruce Springsteen I love the research on luck. It started for me when I first read The Luck...
Mar 14, 20244 min read


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...
Mar 11, 20244 min read


Who Starts It? How? Why?
Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped. Carl Sagan Two of our granddaughters recently spent the...
Dec 9, 20236 min read


PULSE, Sensing the Sacred, and Connecting to the Cosmic Heartbeat of Compassion
The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Make a Connection, Not an Impression
“You can make more friends in two months becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people...
Sep 18, 20224 min read
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