When our spirit sags
“Life itself has no meaning,” Joseph Campbell wrote. “However, each of us has meaning, and we bring it to life.” I like the paradigm shift here: meaning moves from the outside to the inside. It’s just that sometimes, we lose…
Reconnect with our heart
This is a story about what can happen when we are not at home in our own skin. This is a story about reconnecting with our heart. And the choices we can make that spill to those around us. Carlton Pearson is…
The artist inside
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson began her career as an accomplished viola player. While on tour in Europe (in the late 1980s), her viola was stolen. She could have replaced it. As would be imagined, the theft threw her into a state of feeling lost…
More fun to keep going
No travel for me this week. So I let the garden work it’s magic. My face is healing, and my spirit. It could be worse, one guy saw my black and blue and asked, “Did you fly United?” A blessed Easter and…
Climb the ladder
There is a well-known experiment involving a group of ten monkeys, a ladder and bananas suspended from the ceiling. (Yes, this sounds like a joke; only without the Irish priest or the pub. I am smiling because in all my ten years…
Our forgotten song
I love this story about a certain African tribe. Some stories are good for whatever ails us. This is one of those. When a woman in the tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness to pray…
Strong on the inside
Mr. Rogers stepped out of a Manhattan subway train onto the platform. A group of people recognized him, including a young mother with her 6-year-old son. The boy brandished a Star Wars light saber, and was intent on whacking everything--and…
One of a kind
A great Rabbi died. He had been revered and loved by his congregation. After his death, it was decided that the Rabbi's son, himself a Rabbi, would take his father's place. This pleased the congregation, for the son would be…
The Sound You Make
There are still vestiges of Christmas in the living room. Christmas music in the air. The coffee table strewn with devoured books. Country Cooking of Ireland. Romancing the Vine, Alan Tardi. Anchor and Flares, Kate Braestrup. How to cook a Moose, Kate Christensen. Gratitude, Oliver…
Not a real jeweler
Brené Brown tells the story of meeting a young woman at a media conference. She is exited to meet the woman--an accountant /jeweler--because she had bought a beautiful pair of earrings from the woman's online store. "How long have you…
