getting ready for our new year…
December is always a somewhat crazy month…a month of highs and lows, of stress and relaxation, of endings and beginnings. As we face the end of the year, we may face a bit of melancholy sparked with a dab of hope: I’m suggesting we give ourselves a gift of some time now in order to […]
The challenge is not the earthquake…
The Grand Canyon wasn’t created by an earthquake! While it’s tempting to imagine that… it turns out that what makes change happen is usually… The things that break all at once aren’t really a problem. You note that they’re broken, and then you fix them. And often, because we notice the breakage, we more than […]
A favorite story of mine…
One of my favorite stories bears repeating from a 2017 post of mine! 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 […]
when I want to change…
I read about an effective way to form good habits and break bad ones. The article I read said to change your habits, change your identity. The concept was a reminder that how we see and label ourselves can dramatically affect our habits. A paper published in 2011 by a team of Harvard and Stanford […]
The music of our lives…
This October was the opening concert of the Walla Walla Symphony featuring our new music director and conductor, Dina Gilbert, and the popular suite, The Planets, by Gustav Holst. It was great! (And my thought for today is that we can consider our lives as symphonies too!) When we consider our lives as a symphony, […]