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Have you ever experienced an event so broken that the past and future became so tightly bound it became impossible to have a … present? A moment so broken that time stands still and memories don’t mend? Moments like these can shape our outlook on life and rob us of our happiness. Broken memories can create a pattern of negative thinking and behavior forever driving us into … Continue reading Accepting a Broken Past
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” ~ Judy Garland Do you have a friend to go to when you need a dose of unvarnished truth? A no-nonsense friend to: Provide you with an honest appraisal about …… you? Provide you with an “Honest to God” reality check? Provide you with the non-sugar-coated truth? This is important today when we’re getting our … Continue reading No-Nonsense Friends
Honesty Do you judge yourself to be an honest sort of person? How often do you calibrate your emotional response to elicit a reaction from another person? How often to you engage in an argument with a knowingly faulty premise? How often do you paint a picture of your life that is overly rosy? How often have you spun a report for your boss? My … Continue reading Checkbook Honesty
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless”~ Wilson Misner Maybe it’s because these restless skeletons of ours really want to dance. For a long time, I believed that skeletons were passed on from one generation to the next as an unwanted family inheritance. The less one spoke of a skeleton the better, and if one did, one only did so … Continue reading What I Found in My Closet
When was the last time you experienced a gulf between men and women? I recently experienced a vivid reminder. I had just parked my car at Target and was walking toward the entrance when I came upon a Muslim woman with three kids in tow struggling to get a large box into the trunk of her car. She was having no luck as her children were crying … Continue reading When History BECOMES the Probem