It’s a Wonderful Life – July 31, 2020
THE BIG I - Intention and Attention “When attention and intention conjoin, a powerful vortex of awareness is generated that keeps us mindful and in the “now” moment. Michael Bernard Beckwith Years ago I learned the power of intention. After reading several books by...
It’s a Wonderful Life – July 24, 2020
THE BIG “F” The Big F in this week’s blog is Forgiveness. And to be more specific, self-forgiveness. Forgiveness is a term that often means different things to different people. It can mean overlooking and then just keep going. It can mean letting go of an action...
It’s a Wonderful Life – July 17,2020
HAKUNA MATATA “We are like Superman who must remain disguised as nerdy Clark Kent, or Harry Potter who is not allowed to do magic while on holiday.” Anton St. Maarten My thoughts for this week’s blog basically follow the plot of The Lion King. Simba, tracked by his...
It’s a Wonderful Life – July 10, 2020
BUT NOW WHAT DO WE DO? Each week we have new information and new challenges appearing on the scene. Everything from what to do about school openings, to how the election is looming, to personal family decisions and the inability to plan. More often than not, people...
It’s a Wonderful Life – July 3, 2020
SAY YES TO LIFE, In spite of everything The title of this blog is also the title of a newly released book of writings by Viktor Frankl. For those of you who may not have heard of Viktor – he is also the author of Man’s Search for Meaning. He wrote that book 9 months...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 26, 2020
Not All Change Is Progress- let’s make this one progress. Whether we like it or not, Life is change – every moment of every day – I think we have accepted that but may not have accepted that we can’t choose the changes that come. It would be too obvious to say, we are...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter – so now what do we do? Reflecting on the past weeks has provoked many memories. If you were born between 1955-1960 you probably remember other protests – then called riots. You probably remember marches, and sit-ins and the endless controversy over...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 12, 2020
The Meaning of Life is made, not found. Robert Holden As I was studying to be a psychologist, we had many guest lecturers during the course of our program. Most were serious, focused on academic research and centered on the question of “what is wrong with people?” But...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 5, 2020
Time To Rise Let your strength give us strength, let your hope give us hope, let your faith give us faith, let your love give us love….Bruce Springsteen This has been a week of hurt, violence, sadness and recognition. A combination of events has pulled on the heart...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 29, 2020
Radical and oh yes Amazing Grace Love is the crowning grace of humanity. Petrarch Grace is a term that defies definition..it’s often associated with concepts of God or teaching from the Bible. I called this a more radical idea of grace because I intend to define it in...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 23, 2020
Don’t Worry….Be Happiness This is a take off on the famous song by Bobby McFerrin…don’t worry be happy…it was a fun little ditty back in the day. I was living in San Francisco in those days and went to one of the little clubs in North Beach and watched him perform it...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 15, 2020
Who do you trust? I think that was the name of a TV show in the fifties-or maybe it was to Tell The Truth – but this week its been on my mind. Information has been coming at a rapid rate – much of it contradicts information that came before – States have been...
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