Posts – Page 8 – Deepening Our Journey

Life’s Lubricant

March 2, 2021

Rita and I bike a lot with our Quadracycle on the rails to trails in our beautiful section of Pennsylvania. What I learned over the years is a high-quality gear oil, a lubricant, can make the journey a lot easier and so much more enjoyable! If you fail to lubricate the chain and wheel bearings, friction builds up thus making the going much more difficult. Actually if you neglect to apply the gear oil, over time the friction can begin to break down the metal and you’ll eventually find yourself

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The Challenge, the Gift of Diversity

January 30, 2021

This year Rita and I elected to spend our winter at the beach. We decided upon New Smyrna, south of Daytona, because very good friends of ours have been wintering there for several years. One of our friends’ fun hobbies is collecting “sea glass” which they seek out each morning as they walk the beach. Sea glass is ordinary glass that somehow winds up in the ocean. After years of being tumbled around it ends up surfacing on a beach somewhere and folks hunt diligently for these colorful, often highly-polished

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Attitude

January 9, 2021

It’s not what happens to us in life but rather how we respond to what happens to us. If you have read any of my writings over the years, attended my workshops, sat in my office, or spent any significant time in my presence, you may very well have heard me say this at some point or another. I’m not sure when or how I was first introduced to this principle but I do know when it began to take hold and become deeply lodged in my gray matter. Just

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The Gift of Presence

December 13, 2020

As you may have noticed this month’s post is late! It wasn’t for a lack of topics but much the opposite. As an ADHD writer, trying to sift through and prioritize all of the possibilities can be challenging! While I was considering possible topics, I was reading through some of the comments by folks who follow my blog and one by a friend who was a classmate over 50 years ago at Williamson College of the Trades jumped off my tablet! Here is what Ron wrote: “Sometimes we do not

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Inspirers

November 1, 2020

I often ask Siri for the definition of a word as I struggle to expand my limited vocabulary since it’s so convenient. However, when I really want to grapple with a word I usually return to my Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary! Here are some of the definitions I found for inspire: 1.To influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration To exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on To spur on 2. To breathe or blow into or upon To infuse (as life) by breathing People who, by their

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The Uses of Fear: Part Two

September 27, 2020

My last blog post contained some reflections on the struggles with fear—especially bullying—that I’ve dealt with on a personal level in the past. In this post, I want to focus on escalating fears I am observing all around me—and feeling myself—that seem to be operating on a societal level today. We are currently living in a climate of fear unlike anything I have experienced in my lifetime. Even though I have lived through multiple wars, serious civil unrest, the threat of nuclear annihilation and terrorism, the level of fear I

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The Uses of Fear: Part One

August 30, 2020

This month I would like to address something that has been on my mind a lot lately: fear. All of us have dealt with a wide variety of fears and levels of fear throughout our lifetime. One of the earliest, most powerful memories I have dealing with fear is from when I was a youngster of around ten or eleven. There was a big, rather mean boy named Clyde in our small town. He called me “Four Eyes” because I wore glasses and he dubbed one of my best friends

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The $30,000 Hat

August 1, 2020

When Rita and I stopped for breakfast at our favorite little café, I noticed a gentleman around my age at a table near the door. More specifically, I noticed what was on his head. Rita, in the way that couples who have been married as long as we have, was thinking the same thing I was. “It’s your kind of hat” she said. It was the kind of flat hat I wear most of my waking hours now that I have lost the curly locks I had in my younger

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Better to Give Than to Receive?

July 2, 2020

For several years our church has been providing a free dinner each month for folks in the community. It has grown into a meaningful ministry. Most appreciate a good “church-made” meal but equally important has been the opportunity for fellowship amongst members and the community at large. Obviously while we were under stay-at-home orders, the dinner was temporarily canceled. However within a short time the team transitioned to delivering the meals to the homes of anyone who called in and requested one. I called an older neighbor who lives alone to

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