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Conscious

It’s amazing to me how the mind works.  Without our conscious knowledge it’s continually scanning everything around us, formulating a huge number of alternatives, and somehow surfacing just the right course of action for the moment.  Again, it does this...

Tradition

Often I focus on what needs to change.  How we can learn, grow, and live more fully.  As with anything, however, nothing is absolute.  There are times when we need to forgo our pursuit of knowledge. There are times when we need to on enjoy life.  There are times when...

Mulligan

In golf there’s the concept of a mulligan.  While there’s lots of variants, the basic are (i) you hit a bad shot and (ii) you forget about it and hit another ball.  Now the purists out there will point out that you are NOT playing golf if you do this. ...

Leap

It’s interesting how certain words immediately trigger a flurry of thoughts and emotions.  Leap is one such word.  The connotations associated with leap include:  a big effort, a chasm to be crossed, danger, fearlessness, activity.  It’s a word that is...

Attachment

My youngest daughter has two small stuffed animals. The first is “Penggy” a small stuffed penguin.  I got if for her the day she was born.  The second is “Helping Puppy” a small stuffed dog I got for her the day she had the biopsy to confirm...

Submit

Mr. Webster starts his definition of submit with “accept or yield to a superior force”.  How ironic… Each of us perceives that we are in complete control of our own lives.  That there is no superior force out there to submit to.  Yet there’s...