And what are YOU doing this weekend?
It’s interesting that Europeans have more and longer holidays that we do! Maybe that’s why we make such a big deal of those we do have! The European Union countries guarantee a minimum of 20 paid vacation days. While we here in the US get an average of 9 paid vacation days and just 6 paid […]
Achievement or Accomplishment?
Lots of us accomplish things every day. You know, those of us with the to-do lists with our never-ending progressions of check marks! Go to the grocery store? Check. Get the laundry done? Check. Finish that blog post? Check. Sure we are getting stuff done. But are we really achieving anything? There’s a big difference […]
Post traumatic stress or growth?
We hear a lot about PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder. But we hear a lot less about the reverse: post-traumatic growth! Whatever the cause, traumatic stress is something most all of us have experienced, survived, and hopefully continued on to be able to flourish and thrive! Whether we have experienced divorce, bankruptcy, serious accident, loss of […]
Who is your mother?
Mothers: We all had one, having participating in the universal experience of being born, so we’re all in this together! But most of us have had the benefit of the nurturing experiences of mothering, even if it came from someone other than our birth mother. Food for Thought I […]
What do you complain about?
Over 50 years ago, spiritual and political leader Mahatma Gandhi gave a pretty good description of what is still our current situation: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity.” As my sister has so clearly pointed […]