Image credit: Photo by The Gifted Photographer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Two years ago, I gave up on New Year's resolutions. What do those ever lead to but disappointment anyway? Maybe I keep them, but mostly I don't. And when I don't, I feel like a failure. So, I picked a single word [...]
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Hobbling Toward Humility
Image credit: Photo by [desta] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I was a child, my mother used to drag me off to church every Sunday. Oh, how I hated it, and I told her so. "I hated going to church when I was little too," she told me, "But then, when I was [...]
What’s Not in the Holiday Letter
Image credit: Photo by egorsechin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I got together this week with a dear old friend of mine and caught up for the first time in a long time. She's been busy with work and family crises. I've been busy with the perpetual too much that I always heap on [...]
My Word for 2009
Image of the Eagle Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope At the end of last year, I decided I was done with New Year's resolutions. Instead, I picked an intention word for the year: someplace for me to set my focus. My word for 2008 was Happy. And I have to say, that worked out [...]
Good Intentions
Last week, as I was contemplating what to do for the random act of kindness that Mantra asked me to perform, I noticed something interesting: I found myself being kinder to everyone. The act of thinking consciously about how I could do some small kindness for a stranger seemed to make opportunities for kindness pop [...]
