Decisions Decisions
What is a decision? Let’s ask Merriam Webster. : a choice that you make about something after thinking about it : the ability to make choices quickly and confidently : the particular end of a legal or official argument…
This hour
Happiness- not in another place, but this place, not in another hour, but this hour.―Walt Whitman Happy? Is that all we were meant to be? Haven’t you heard that finding what you were meant to do and doing it makes you…
polka dots
Polka Dots are a classic. Songs were written about them. Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald sing the same song, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, a sultry blues sonnet. Dresses and bathing suits were designed with fabric of varying sizes and colors of polka…
peers
I read about “peer-to-peer lending” today in The Economist, pg. 6 of the May, 2015 edition. Fascinating. Instead of the bank mediating between savers and borrowers, they deal directly with each other. In essence, they cut out the middleman- who…
full throttle
Sometimes I hear boats crank up and head up the creek…putt, putt, putt. When they get out past the “no wake zone”, you can hear them push the boat into full throttle. You know that sound. It’s the roar of…
youth dew
Dr. Christine Northrup calls nitric oxide the “fountain of youth” as she talks about agelessness. When you mention the link with nitric oxide to muscles and testosterone, men’s ears perk up. Not to be confused with nitrous oxide, laughing gas. This…
too ready?
Is there any downside to being “too ready”? Isn’t this the state of preparedness? Isn’t this “being ready”, the mature, responsible behavior that is expected of adults and that we do our best to install in our children and teens?…
ambitious
Someone told me, “You are always running behind”. Hmm…what did they really mean? They felt that I didn’t have time for them, because it seemed that I always had too many other things that were pressing and I could…
Limitless
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” Do you have self enforced limits? It is probably…
volunteerism
Or should I say active altruism? It’s that spirit of concern and action on behalf of others. Like warm soup on a cold winter day, it is soothing and fills us with a feeling of satisfaction. That’s how human kindness and…