What great possibilities are waiting in the wings for you to discover?
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
— J. B. Priestley
Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander and his wife, teacher and family therapist Rosamund Stone Zander, wrote a fascinating and entertaining book about “the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of our lives.” In their book, The Art of Possibility, they tell of a violinist who “led as a peer with so little fanfare that no one actually noticed him. They just heard the Continue reading » Waiting in the Wings
Think Valentine’s Day is just for kids and/or lovers? Think again.
Which of the “Love Languages” is most important to you:
Physical Touch – hugs and kisses
Affirming words – “great job!”
Acts of Service – cooking, repairs
Quality time – playing games, picnics
— Food for Talk
Last year I wrote that Valentine’s Day traditionally invites us to be creatively loving and generous:
Lovers love it. Parents encourage it. Children, well they probably love/hate it depending upon whether they’re one of the popular ones. (Or whether their Mom & Dad smother them with Valentines!) But, like it or not, sending flowers, candy and/or greetings are de rigueur for this holiday. Thus, retailers love it! Still, all in all, it gives us a great opportunity to remind the people we love that they are wonderful blessings in our lives.
And this year, Continue reading » Valentine’s Day and the Power of Believing
Nostalgia reigns at least once every summer for me. How about you?
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Do you remember a time when you felt the WHOLE SUMMER stretching out before you? Remember that joyous walk home on the last day of school when you wanted to shout: SCHOOL’S OUT FOR THE SUMMER – YAY!
For me, summer was a time of possibilities tangled up with long boring days of “nothing to do”… until my Mom would throw up her hands and put all us kids to work! I know now that summer is a mixed blessing for parents… it’s a more relaxed time with moments of fun interspersed with lifetimes of being chief Kool-Aid maker, bottle-washer, daycare arranger and on-call-chauffer. And if Mom has an 8-5 job outside as well as inside the home, well then, the late Erma Bombeck says it all in a nutshell:
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Wise woman that she was, Erma also said: Continue reading » Lazy, Crazy Days of Summer
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
— Francesca Reigler
When do we get old? I think we get old when we think that there’s no more possibility of success, that one day’s struggle leads nowhere but to tomorrow’s struggle. And life can do that to you. We all hit rough patches that wear us out. And sometimes we get so worn out that we forget to see the beauty and possibility around us.
Last week I met a young woman with so much energy and hope and promise and possibility that she floored me. Her name is June and she is a:
- Day trader
- Disney character (one of the chipmunks – no, I didn’t ask which one)
- College student
- Ebay vendor
- iPhone application programmer
- Wife
Her goal is to get a college degree and be debt free. She has cobbled together all these ways to earn money to make that dream come true. She is truly inspiring because she has Continue reading » Where Did Our Dreams Go?
 The Clutter Debate
Experts tell us, clutter can make you sick. Really???
Certainly it’s easier to stumble or fall when clutter gets in the way. And beware those nasty, invisible dust mites lurking in the nooks and crannies. But mostly, it’s the mental meltdown of too much stuff and the frustrating searches for “lost” items that drives us batty!
That being said, I wholeheartedly subscribe to Thomas Edison’s advice, “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” I see myself not as a packrat, but as a hoarder of my very own possibilities pile. I do love my junk – it gives me the freedom to invent my very own as yet undefined creations.
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