By this point, I know myself pretty well. I know, given a certain stimulus how I react. I believe we have… default settings. Kind of those built-in reactions. I react to stress by eating. In extreme stress, I clean. But I don’t clean everything, I find some small thing that …
I know this woman named Angelica. And she is some kind of earthly saint. I mean, she is one of those people that I just like to watch so I can learn more about how I want to be. Her way of being in the world is that good. But …
In the story of the Nativity, who would you be? In American versions, the Innkeeper is usually kind of grouchy and too busy to pay close attention to what is really happening. Given the culture of the period, I’m not sure this would be true, but it’s how he is …
My other post was more of a downer than I intended. A couple days after I posted it, I had a sort of break through with the particular issue I was in turmoil over. Not any resolution, but a shift in my perspective. And I’m not going to blog about …
So it did take a bit, but I found something to be thankful for from the betrayal I mentioned last post. Perspective: In the whole scheme of things, this is not a big deal. It took up a lot of room in my head for a while and felt huge, …
The news is full of the betrayal in Paris. Isn’t that what it feels like? These spoken and unspoken agreements we have for existing in the world have been violated. Violated in a deadly way. This is not how we do it. Earlier the same day, I was betrayed. In …