SELF-CARE – Breck’s Definition: The actions you take that provide the catalyst to less “Noise” and greater well-being. SELF-CARE is specific to the individual but essential for all of us. Knowing what you need and then providing it for yourself takes some time and a good deal of personal inventory.Because of our own issues, many of…
Entitlement by definition is “that you deserve more than others”; and by the same reasoning, you don’t deserve less, and when you get less, it’s a problem, and someone’s going to pay for that problem. Now, we have tolerance for that in children, and/or if someone is spending good money for their entitlement we are more accommodating as…
It seems like things (the world) is opening up. The constraints of a year in hibernation and wanting to be released portents an unleashed summer. The conflict of to be or not to be vaccinated seems to be finding resolve, and the concern for long-term effects seems to be receding into the background – foreign…
Sometimes it’s hard, next to impossible, to get to your feelings. I mean, it looks like feelings because you are raging and struggling and fighting against immovable forces – forces inside you that won’t allow for your feelings, that won’t allow for release, that won’t allow for heartbreak. The only expression is Blame and Rage…
We all have Sacred Vows that we have made with God, with others, or with ourselves. Some are current, and some were made at a very early age. Sometimes these vows are organic, and somehow they get formalized over time, and sometimes these Vows are declarations that become sinew and evolve into an essential part…
Lessons in life are hard-fought. There is no easy road to redemption, and/or evolution. It’s a battle against a new order of things, it’s a battle against the fear of what you might lose, it’s a battle against what has held you fast, and it’s always a battle with uncertainty, the unknown. One knows what they…
Even though we are saying goodbye to 2020, there are those who are holding on to 2020 with a death grip. Maybe it’s because you won’t be able to ride on Airforce 1, or maybe because your need for attention is gasping for every last breath. Or maybe it’s because you don’t have the option of…
It has been a hell of a year. That is not to say that we are not still on “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride”, it is just to mark the last 12 months.What we expected in December of last year and what occurred in the ensuing months were very freaking different. Adaptation, assimilation, innovation, and contemplation have been qualities…
“Oh the Places You’ll Go” – Dr. Seuss As we turn the corner on 2020 and all that was and has been, we look at“Oh the Places You Went”. We have gone to despair, to hope, to resistance, to wreckage, to failure, to futility, to madness, and to love.We have also gone to the moments,…
It takes something to fight for something, and many times those acts are not public. They are mostly private battles that you have to win every day. We battle with the best part of ourselves, and certainly the lesser part. We are faced with choices all day long, choices like: to have character, to have…