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Forgive my profanity. Sometimes being direct is the kindest approach. Let me elaborate. John Oliver’s brilliant video on Scientific Studies is worth your twenty minutes and conveys a humorous, as well as poignant, perspective to the limitations of scientific...

The fingers on my left hand count the number of people in my life who are intimately synced with the flow of life. These few folks have mastered dynamic steering, dynamic resilience, dynamic flow, and dynamic wonder. These amazing people embody human flesh and are...

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ~Meister Eckhart Recently I was called for an interview, on the subject of gratitude. The conversation with Mandy became lively banter; an animated generative dialogue of sharing...

Understanding that we are always moving, the far more interesting exploration is: Are we circling or spiraling? The round movement for each of these paths only seems similar . . . Circling means—as it sounds—following the same path over and over again without...

The summer months, when slowing down and taking it easy are said to prevail, have been anything but, for me in 2015. I am left wondering about trying really hard to relax – working (making effort) at leisure? Or desiring to complete a list of tasks and projects...

Recently I received a message from a dear friend, about the shooting in Charlestown, SC. She wrote about and illuminated the racist behavior that both explicitly and unconsciously permeates our modern society. Included were statistics about guns and the violence...

"You're seeing through Rose-Colored Glasses" is a sideways remark meant to wake up a person's ability to see reality - the truth of a situation - rather than an optimistic spin. Rose-colored glasses may be a distortion; but Right-Colored Glasses are the 360-degree...

The weekend of Mother's Day was college graduation for my daughter. While her senior project will be completed in the fall to obtain her diploma, she was invited to walk with her class. Empathizing with bittersweet "almost-finishing-but-not-quite" feelings, I had...

Last night I had dinner with a sorority sister from college. I last saw her three decades ago. Timeless connection is stunning. She looked, walked, talked, and moved the same: gorgeous, bubbly, slender, radiant. In her sharing, one clear sentence after another, she...

Inspired by a lecture from Sarah Lewis, author of The Rise, a friend shared with me a new view of mastery. Mastery is not success, but as Ms. Lewis offers, a confident pursuit. The attainment of the Gold medal does not represent mastery; it indicates success. Nor...