I watched her from my home in the sky, and worried that she wouldn’t notice me. How could she, after all, with her back turned and her eyes covered? Still, I crept across the sky, doing my work as she did her own. It often seemed that she had turned her back on everything – […]
Month: July 2022
Packing for an important journey is always hard. What to take, what to leave behind, how much to plan on using from home and how much to just buy when you arrive. How much money will it all cost? How much room will it take up? How heavy will that backpack be, and can I […]
In the moments after a mistake, there is very little good that can be done, yet quite a bit can happen that will only serve to make things worse. Consider: How many times have you fumbled something coming off the stove, and then reached out to grab it at the last second, adding “burned fingers” […]
Everything here is an aspect of myself, of course. The grapes that nourish and delight my senses are a manifestation of work I put in long ago, finally bearing fruit. The castle, in the distance, reflects ancestors who lived before me and left a framework to build my life around. Even the snail, slowly making […]
The sword always made me uncomfortable, if I’m honest. It seemed to be a tool of vengeance, not justice, and striking fear in the hearts of the accused always felt to me as an unnecessary bit of cruelty. Anyone before me in a situation where the application of a sword might seem a reasonable outcome […]
Sometimes your position requires that you be separated from the world to a degree. Your work may demand it, or your service may ask it of you, or the people you lead may need to see you as a bit separate. Elevated, if only a little bit. In those times it’s easy to see yourself […]
To behold the thing, it’s best to be surrounded by it. To be able to feel it. Smell it. Hear it whispering in your ear. This is true of tangible things, but it’s also true of concepts and feelings. To behold abundance, go to where you feel abundant. To behold love, go to where love […]
No one likes to be fooled, and we go through many contortions to prevent it from happening, or at least to reduce its likelihood. We may bring all of our attention, our discernment, our experience, our cynicism to bear on the smallest thing, to ensure that nobody has cause to snicker at our gullibility. It’s […]
Stress testing is a thing, and we all do it sometimes. After all, how do you know what’s too much until things become too much? And generally, this process doesn’t do any lasting harm, or at least any major harm. So, we take on too much, find out that it is too much, and then […]
Changes of perspective are useful and important. They allow you to see very large things play out in a small and controlled way, which can create the distance needed to engage with those very large things with a clearer head and heart. Yet there’s a risk, too, that the representation of the thing may feel […]