The Unconditional Love of Parents: A Heart Outside the Body Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone A child walks through the school gate, turns once to wave, and disappears into a crowd of Read more…

How to Be Productive Instead of Busy: Focus on What Matters It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau Some days feel full before they have even begun. We answer messages over breakfast, carry unfinished tasks from one hour into the Read more…

Make a Life, Not Just a Living: Are We Too Busy to Notice Our Own Lives? Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. Dolly Parton Picture an ordinary weekday evening. Dinner is on the table, but your mind is still inside an unfinished email. Someone you love is Read more…

The Human Need for Connection: Knowing Someone Would Miss Us One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. Margaret Mead It is 11:47 p.m. Your key has not turned in the lock. A cup of tea sits untouched on the kitchen counter, Read more…

How to Accept Yourself and Find Contentment in the Life You Have Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman There is a quiet bargain many of us make with ourselves. We decide that we will finally be happy when something changes. When we earn Read more…

Protecting the Environment for Future Generations Is a Test of Conscience The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson Most sacrifices come with some kind of reward. We help a friend and see the relief on Read more…

Is crying good for you? What this proverb understands What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. Jewish Proverb Some tears arrive with an explanation. A relationship ends. Someone we love dies. A long-held hope falls apart. Others catch us off guard. We hear a song while washing the dishes, read an Read more…

How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Make the Impossible Possible The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Most of us know what it feels like to stand at the edge of something unfamiliar and immediately begin listing Read more…

What If Passion Is Not the Problem? There is probably something you have been meaning to do for a while. Perhaps you want to start writing, learn to paint, apply for a different job, or turn an idea into a small business. You think about it now and then. You may even have a document Read more…

The wisdom hidden in an ordinary bag of flour You must bake with the flour you have. This Danish folk saying uses the language of the kitchen to express one of life’s most practical truths. We cannot always choose our circumstances, but we can choose what we create from them. A baker may wish for Read more…