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“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope Last week I launched a discussion regarding the concept of unfinished business. This week, let’s continue our examination of this theme by taking a few momen...

“A garden is never finished” Shunryu Suzuki One of the things that creative minds struggle with the most is how to tell when a project that they are working on is finished. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn’t matter whether we are t...

“Don’t be a leaf … be a tree!” Charles M Schultz This past week I read a very poignant article regarding the challenges of accomplishing personal growth in the public eye and it reminded me of the quote above by Charles M. Schultz, creator of the bel...

The night the wind howled through the ancient trees of Tao Garden nestled in the green mountains of Northern Thailand, Bill and I lay awake listening – to it and the rain. The air was spiced with the smells of the jungle and rice fields. We had been ...

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” Alfred North Whitehead As we round the corner between autumn and the advent of the holiday season, I suddenly find myself t...

“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.” Wendell Phillips If I asked you to sum up your experience over the last two years in just one word, what is the first word that comes to mind? For me, it is fatigue – isolation fatigue, lockdown fatigu...

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford Regardless of how the pandemic has touched your life, one of the things that we all have in common is the fact that social-distancing has taken an enor...

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” R. Buckminster Fuller This week as we make our way through y...

I often wonder why the concept of perfectionism exists in this mortal realm. My quandary stems from the fact that, if the purpose of human life (assuming you buy into the idea that life has purpose) is to learn and grow from one’s experiences then we...

“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” Sir Isaac Newton Inertia. We all feel it – that mind-numbing heaviness that settles...

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama XIV Today I have a question for you: Is it better to be wise or to be kind? Careful now. This is a tricky one. On the one hand you could argue that it is never “wrong” to be kind, but i...

Every time you judge someone you reveal a part of yourself that needs healing – Letters of Gratitude We are now a year and a half into the pandemic and it’s time to rip the Band-Aid off a subject that I have been avoiding writing about. Last wee...