I am I Don Quixote…The Lord of La Mancha…My Destiny Calls and I Go! When I hear this refrain, I get all excited-tingly inside. And I’m not alone, apparently. Last Saturday night I sat in a packed theatre with a bunch of other people, all of us watching Don Quixote’s magical quest unfold and letting … Continue reading
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Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson WHY NOT START NOW?
Playing the Game
Okay, this post starts out with a sigh. Can you hear it? SIGH. That’s me letting out a big intake of breath. Maybe it’s accompanied by a slight vocal rumble. But you know what a sigh sounds like, right? I’m sighing because I get so tired of playing the game. Sometimes it seems like there … Continue reading
Solitude
Only those who learn how to live with solitude can come to know themselves and life. I go out there and walk and look at the trees and sky. I listen. I sit on a rock or a stump and say to myself, “Who are you, Sandburg? Where have you been, and where are you … Continue reading
WORK and LOVE and FUN and HEALTH
I just finished reading Scott Berg’s biography of Katharine Hepburn. Well, not exactly a biography. Something different, but I don’t actually know what to call it. According to Berg, Hepburn more or less adopted him shortly after they met, immediately knighting him her biographer at the start of their 20-year relationship. For several years he … Continue reading
Five Ways to Increase Your Comfort During Transition
Last week I wrote about self-reinvention, which usually happens in tandem with transition. I’ve lived through a number of transitions myself, and am living through one right now. In fact, sometimes I think life is simply a series of transitions, with little spaces in-between. I was going to say, “with little spaces in between for … Continue reading
Five Stories We Tell Ourselves About Self-Reinvention
As far as I’m concerned, there’s never been a better time to reinvent yourself. Partly that’s due to the self-reinvention that’s going on inside of me, but mostly it comes from the collective place at which we’ve arrived. We’re poised on the edge of new territory and many of us are hoping our world is … Continue reading
Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop
Today I want to thank one of my clients for sending a link to an intriguing New York Times article by Daniel Gilbert, author of “Stumbling on Happiness.” In the article Gilbert contends that it’s not the bad times that make us uneasy and depressed, but rather that we don’t know how the bad times … Continue reading
Television and Meaning
I haven’t watched a lot of television in the past six years, ever since we moved our TV into a room that didn’t have a cable hookup. In doing so we created a comfy little hideaway that was perfect for movie viewing. But, that meant if we wanted to tune in to real TV we … Continue reading
Happiness or Meaning?
A lot has been written lately about happiness. In fact, I’ve just been given a book on the subject, The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner. He traveled the world in search of the happiest places, and his excursions uncovered lots of insights into the where of people’s happiness. Weiner discovered that people in Iceland … Continue reading
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