 Photo credit: akk_rus Ever been nonplussed by a comment or problem?How about this one: Send us some metaphors for your life, your trials and tribulations, your joys and your passions.In my last post I shared a reader’s description of grief over significant personal losses:
Besides touching my heart, our reader demonstrated how potent Metaphor can be as a tool for understanding and working through our personal challenges. Jose Ortega y Gasset, a prolific Spanish philosopher says this about metaphor: “[It] is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its [power] verges on magic… a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of his creatures when he made him.” How can you streeeetch to become more flexible?A friend of mine has become a serious part-time nature photographer. After having worked for several years in a highly left-brain technical field, he has put both sides of his brain together to create some beautiful art. In picking his equipment, he focused on all the technical doohickeys that make what he has great. Once he’s out in the wild, he gets caught up in the wonder of nature and records it at the rate of many frames per second. Then, he chooses which pictures of the many hundreds he took are suitable for publishing. I was really pleased when Ellie used a picture of Eeyore on her post because I’ve always liked Eeyore. I guess that’s because he was soooo gray that he seemed funny to me. I never really thought of him as being depressed or depressing. He was so extreme that he was endearing, though I wouldn’t actually want to have to work or live with him. Continue reading » Morphing Into Persistent Perseverance While Looking for Many Right Answers This is an invitation – an invitation to join a conversation about making the most out of life no matter what it throws at us. Ellie and I have been doing a lot of talking and we’d really like to hear from you. Please, join the conversation. I met a friend for dinner over the weekend. We used to work together and we’ve been friends for a very long time. Not wanting to be pushy, I waited until the end of dinner to ask her if she’d had a chance to go out and look at our new blog. She said that she had, but that she didn’t know quite what to “do” with it. Since she isn’t the first one to express this sentiment, I thought I’d take a stab at what you “do” with a blog. |
 Take a short break and consider the following: “Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.” Frederick Lewis Allen 
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