Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom): an understanding that “responsibility” is just another word for “being able to respond.” [Screaming at the top of your lungs is one response, but it isn’t the only one….]
Poet Carl Sandburg once pointed out, “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” There is a multiplicity of methods and products that are supposed to help you manage your time. The problem with most of them is they don’t work all that well any more as our world speeds up and our…
A lot of Un-Seeing is about developing a different way of seeing your world. In this video of a TEDx talk at the University of Illinois, Daniel Simons who is the head of the Visual Cognition Laboratory at the University of Illinois explains that what we think we see is not necessarily so. He touches on how what we see affects the way we think.
Baby-Boomers really did try to change the world. We tackled the same-old with the tried and true, passed on down to us through the ages: rebellion and protest, dreaming big dreams and making them real, and exploring new directions in spirituality and/or consumerism. Somehow, even though the world certainly did change, the mess kept morphing in other directions. Changing the world is not such an easy thing to do. Who knew?
For a long time I thought I just was not fated to have teachers. Very little of what I’ve learned about the Real has come from guru-types. In fact, I am a lot biased against the guru-wannabes. Maybe I’m like the three year old who’s got the blouse on inside-out and is focused on buttoning the thing regardless. “Me do, me do,” the baby declares. So do I! What about you?
PRODUCT (Book): A CURIOUS MIND: The Secret To a Bigger Life Authors: Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman Publisher: Simon and Schuster [2015]
The dreaded “BLOCK”. It’s a mind-thing that plagues every creative person that ever was. Whether you are a writer, a scientist, an artist, or a business person, there comes a time when you reach for an idea and there’s nothing there. For some reason the well has gone dry. Not even mud comes up. You are pounding on a stuck door that, for whatever reason, is closed and locked to you, a door that used to swing open easily at…
The following poems are by Audrey Love, a strong-willed and independent Upcountry Maui woman who is making her own way through the world. She is what Hawaiians call a “tita.” A tita stands up strong for what she believes. She will do as she chooses how she chooses because she chooses. She does not feel a need to explain herself. She takes the blows that come her way and, if she falls, she will stand back up…again and again and…
Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom): an understanding that when you can recognize your inner fullness, you’ll have the platform on which you can do your best dance. [Getting to this inner fullness seems to be a lot like Picasso’s quest to paint like a child. It’s already there in you. You just have to feel it…and usually that takes a lifetime of trying.]
Developing your own thoughts and feelings about what has value for you, the storyteller and poet, can help you connect with your audience. But, in order to connect, you do have to know your own heart. ALL IT TAKES IS HEART Memoir-writer Annette Simmons, in her book, WHOEVER TELLS THE BEST STORY WINS: How To Use Your Own Stories To Communicate With Power and Impact, tells us, “Unless you bring a beating heart to your message, it is dead. But, when…
