My editor said this list is a no-brainer. Don’t think too much. Do consider whether anything fits and is useful. 1 – Don’t believe everything you hear or read. Do your own due diligence and draw your own conclusions. 2 – Don’t listen to only one side of a debate or argument. Do consider
First, a word about the charcoal drawing of the pair of old shoes. A friend, Kathleen, who is a poet shared the image with me and others who love her poems. Her parents purchased this drawing years ago in Denison, Texas. It is signed, “Mott” and the artist could be Clifford Mott. I cannot confirm
Of more than 650 blogs/essays in the past 12 years, “Stepping Into The Unknown” remains popular, although to a lesser degree than when I wrote it 4 years ago. That it is still read by numerous people makes me wonder how and why some of these blogs are still kicked around at all and others
“I have heard it said that… at the intersection of existence, awareness, and bliss, all divisions will disappear… I look forward to that state.” Kumud Ajmani, a good friend and moderator of a Sunday morning group called Spirit Chat for the past 12 years, offered that up to the group last Sunday. It is
Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir was published in 2013. It was a record of several watershed learning experiences in each of 7 decades that shaped and influenced me over those years. What follows here is a brief summary of the past decade in a similar way and raising up a few experiences and what I
All of us meet situations in our lives that are formidable challenges looming large and require us to decide how we are going to move forward. These experiences come in many forms – in a personal relationship at home or at work; a threatening illness or disease; the unexpected loss of a loved one; raising
