Begin Each Day Showing Gratitude

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Creating Things That Are Very Imperfect

What concepts might help someone be more creative? Do you wish you were more creative? Creating things for others is important – even when you know what you will create will be imperfect… Read More →

What Is The Best Relationship Advice Someone Gave Me Recently?

Do you struggle with relationships?  Are you at ease in the company of others?  Or do you often look to get away from social situations, preferring to not have to parry through potential… Read More →

To Love Or To Be Loved? Is That The Question?

One of my chronic weaknesses is:  I am a poster child for “not letting go.” The last woman who left me used to criticize me for the unending love I still had for… Read More →

Sexuality In Art And Real Life Relationships

I watched the 2012 film “Nobody Walks” this evening.  As the title may imply, the heavy-handed, fairly one-sided moral of that story is:  If you have sex with people other than the only… Read More →

Trying To Understand Why She Left You

“That’s the crazy thing about it is:  Breaking up with someone is literally the most common thing.  Like everyone you know broke up with everyone they ever dated . . . until maybe… Read More →

People Who Are Consistently Kind Tend To Attract Kind & Giving People

Building off of yesterday’s post about considering the needs of the many rather than just the needs of a few or just one, and a post series that began with a post about a… Read More →

The Many, The Few, And The One

“The needs of the many outweigh . . . the needs of the few . . . or the one”  ~ Star Trek II. Building on ideas from yesterday’s post, when I encounter someone… Read More →

You Get To Choose Your Instruments

And you get to choose how your instruments are played. If you want your life’s work to be an instrument of enduring love, you will likely receive enduring love in return. If you… Read More →

400 Songs That Shape My World: #397 “Gold Dust Woman” by Fleetwood Mac

This is a list of 400 songs that continue to shape my world, the soundtrack of my life.  I encourage you to click on the above video, to hear the song a couple of… Read More →

What Is The Greatest Role You Can Ever Be Cast In?

Weak And Scared Today was a tough day.  My youngest boy came to me tonight, saying he was “weak and scared.”  At first, I thought he was angling toward convincing me to allow him… Read More →

The End Of The Innocence

Today, Lance Armstrong began the confessional stage of his life’s story, starting a new presentation of his public image. Tonight, by coincidence, I happened to watch Ron Howard’s 2008 film “Frost/Nixon.” It’s interesting how… Read More →

Your Success May Not Depend On You As Much As It May Depend On The Crews You Choose

Your crew is not you. You are not your crew. You will probably be a member of different crews for different pursuits. Often, you will not lead the crew you are in.  More… Read More →

The Ones Whose Stories You Want To Tell To The World

The photographs above are of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in March 1865.  John Wilkes Booth is in attendance, above Lincoln.  Booth assassinated Lincoln in the next month, April 1865.  Click on the images… Read More →

The Loves Of Your Life

“The Love Of Your Life” Most people may think they have one great love of their life. But most people have several great loves of their life.  Some have many loves.  Most of our… Read More →

The Parable Of The Talents. What Offers Should You Accept? What Should You Do With The Gifts You’ve Been Given?

What do you think of this quote? “When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted.  Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”  … Read More →

A Common Missing Character Trait In Modern Protagonists

What is a characteristic missing in many modern protagonists? I am reading a fantasy novel currently.  I am up to Chapter 65 in “The Name Of The Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss.  It is well written… Read More →

The Common Good

Of course, you’ve heard of the term “the common good” before.    I have more often been a failure in my life than I have been a success. I have had trouble connecting… Read More →

What Can You Learn That Will Profit You? #2 – How Are You Doing?

Which is a better concern: a)  How well have I created benefits for myself? or b)  How well have I created benefits for my community? My father attended a homecoming reunion for his university a… Read More →

Your Life Will Tend To Expand Or Contract In Proportion To Your Designs And Priorities

Do you wish your life’s story included a great romance as one of its storylines?  Really?  Then what great efforts did you do today toward maintaining, nurturing, or growing a great romance?  What… Read More →

What Can You Learn That Will Profit You? #1 – A Librarian More Than A Library

This post series is for people seeking wisdom. Atop this post is the original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket by F. Cugat for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great… Read More →

Greenberg, The Attractiveness of Intelligence, How Long Does Romance And Passion Last? My Problem With Alcohol and Responses To Circumstances

Tonight, I am re-watching the great 2010 film “Greenberg,” starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig. What?  You don’t remember Greenberg?  You never heard it was a great film? Well, maybe most people don’t think… Read More →

Craigslist Joe

You may have heard about this film and thought, “I wonder if that’s any good?”  This was a great film.  I highly recommend it. While the film suggests many people are intrinsically good,… Read More →

Loose Extensions And Connections

“In the end?  Nothing ends, Adrian.  Nothing ever ends.”     ~ Dr. Manhattan in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons “Watchmen.” My first thought for a title for this post was “Loose Ends,” but that, like… Read More →