Full vs. Enough
One of the lessons of Thanksgiving is that we eat too much! We eat until we’re full, experiencing the sensation of too much. We confuse our desire for that feeling of ‘full,’ with the feeling of ‘enough.’ Even though enough doesn’t feel like full, could’t we make that be okay? Black Friday teaches us […]
Story of two brothers
Two brothers grew up and worked together on the family farm. One married and had a large family. The other was single. At the day’s end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit. Then one day the single brother said to himself, “It’s not right that we should share equally the produce and the […]
Ain’t English fun?
Let’s face it: Sometimes our English language can be downright bizarre. The plural of ox is oxen while the plural of box is boxes, ‘rough’ rhymes with ‘gruff, even though the two words only have two letters in common, and there are actually more than nine hundred exceptions to the infamous ‘i before e except […]
What is time to you?
We’re not really “saving daylight.” We’re just shifting our perception of it! Time isn’t really a thing. It is really nothing but a viewpoint. It is an idea. It’s a linear measure of an experience. It’s recollection of the past, attention in the present, anticipation of the future. After all, we all know that the […]