Our humanness is what we are, our persona is something we sculpt and craft. I often find myself most drawn to the humanness of people - the raw stone before the statue is carved. I live for the moment when I'm visiting with someone and I can see
We come up with answers, advice and suggestions based on our access to information too. Only it’s from information that we have often acquired from our personal knowledge and experience. Those responses, however, are also influenced by our feelings, beliefs, desires, love and so on; which is uniquely human.
Inspiration
Dad used to have this book which was a collection of gun slinging western short stories by Elmore Leonard (“3:10 To Yuma”). In the preface of the book Elmore was reflecting on being an advertising copywriter for Chevrolet in Detroit and desperately wanting to be a western fiction writer,
At age 10 mom was taking me and a few of my friends to the care home in Leader, SK where we would read to the elder residents. In the summertime when school was done for the year we would go visit an elder at their home in our community
A bit of a self-reflection this morning… Measuring sticks are helpful and important. By measuring stick I mean places, people, or experiences that we have historically responded to in a certain way, but after a period of growth or time away, when that person, place or experience is re-introduced to
Truth
Don’t think about hard things when you’re tired. Period. How you feel when you’re tired is not an accurate representation of how capable you are.
We are currently at our family vacation which is a yearly get together with my parents, 7 siblings, their partners and children. Together we are a small rowdy village. Each family takes on a meal over the weekend to make for all 24 of us. We got breakfast tomorrow morning
It’s hard to know what to do when the answer doesn’t present itself with the question. This is likely amplified by our addiction to the instantaneousness that we have come to rely on being online so much. It’s hard to sit with an answer-less question for a
A post for my sister who likes my short posts the best. (Not you, Cinta. Or you, Theresa, or Deed or Haley…) I make a habit of eye-balling other people’s grocery carts when I’m grocery shopping. I’m sure they think I’m being nosy and judgemental -
Communication has the potential to change everything. And it certainly has the potential to diffuse a dramatic outcome. When I’m scrambley, overwhelmed and overstimulated I don’t even think twice now about saying; “You know what? I’m pretty overstimulated right now, but I want to hear this story,
Has this ever happened to you? I used to have these wonderful beautiful moments, and recognize them, but then was constantly pulling myself out of them by thinking; “yeah, but I have this bill that’s due next week, or, I have that dentist appointment in a couple days (not
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer is a potent heavy read. And one of my go-to’s. I often find myself reading a paragraph and then having to put the book down to ponder the depth and meaning for a day or two. I will share my favorite passage