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Category Archives: Health
What a Difference a Day Makes
There is good to be found in many things initially not seen in that light. I woke up about 4am Thursday morning with a nasty stomach virus that kept anything from staying down until about 6pm last evening. Between a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life, Perspective
Tagged appreciating good health. sickness, lessons from illness
We All Feel the Same Pain
There can be a thousand people in a room with only two dysfunction ones and they will find one another. They’re attracted like magnets to each other because they see them self in the other person. A psychologist once said that … Continue reading
Posted in Dysfunction, Health, Relationships
Tagged dysfunction, relationships, screwed up
Think Low and Think High
All my adult life I have bumped into conclusions made logically by scientists and researchers that say a person’s creativity peaks when they are young. There is no real consensus on how young this happens. Hypotheses vary from those who say … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Knowledge, Life, Overcoming Obstacles, Self Awareness
Most of Them Never Happened
There is a guy in this 30’s I work with who is quite a cynic but calls himself a “realist”. A few days ago in conversation I said to him “realist is just another name for a pessimist”. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Knowledge, Life, Overcoming Obstacles, Simple Pleasures
The $#*! Kids Say
These quotes are uninhibited comments made by British children taken from a commercial airing in the UK for a nonprofit organization: (little boy) I was 6 on the 50th of November. (little girl) Do mommies teach babies how to laugh … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health, Knowledge, Life, Overcoming Obstacles
To Risk My Significance
For a long, long time I thought I lived openly…at least in the vast majority of ways. My secrets were either ancient history or had to do with relationships with the opposite sex. Somehow I managed to compartmentalize my behaviors believing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Knowledge, Life, Relationships, Self Awareness
Whatever the Outcome… Forgive Yourself
Likely the period of most profound growth for me was time spent immersed in learning who I was and coming face to face with ‘what was and is’ while at “The Meadows” in Wickenburg Arizona. Those weeks in the high … Continue reading
Being Aware that Fire Can Burn
Driving down the freeway the other day I noticed a big store I planned to visit on the weekend, but then was conscious of nothing else for another five miles. A short while later slowing down to make my exit I wondered … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life, Self Awareness
You Are More Than Who You Think
Without cause or catalyst I can name, once in a while I have found myself alone glancing into a mirror being startled by the sudden realization “I AM!”. These rare moments started in childhood somewhere about ten years old. The … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life, Self Awareness
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Progressive Jerks Forward & Developmental Back Stepping
With a cut or scratch on my skin, I know with proper care healing will take place. The deeper the wound, the more time needed for the healing to happen. Even then there often is a scar and the size of it … Continue reading