One thing surgery will teach you is that some days are better than others. Another thing is that never get too confident, or your body will bring you back to reality. I’m not complaining, really. There are way too many people enduring a lot more than I. I am simply trying to learn from this…
In With The New, Out With The Old
It’s been three weeks since my knee replacement surgery, so I don’t have any excuses left. It is time for my meditations to begin their weekly routine. The healing process for the knee is not unlike other healing processes whether it be from surgery, trauma, or mental trauma or anguish. At first you deal with…
Never Lose Your Poise
Never, Ever, Lose Your Poise — Coach Frank Broyles. One of the many life lessons one learns by playing competitive sports is to never lose one’s poise or cool. Now there are athletes who do “lose it” on occasion, but the great ones seldom do when the game is on the line. Coach Broyles knew how…
Inspired By Love And Guided By Knowledge
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell Pretty simple don’t you say, but like my grandmother used to say, “Easier said than done.” First of all, we tend to equate romantic love whenever we hear the word love, but I don’t think that’s what Russell had in…
We Are Never One Thing
We are never one thing, our lumbering potentialities stirred into being by situations in which chance and choice conspire to make us the people we are said to have been. — Maria Popova. When I speak to groups I often talk about my journey without maps. When I came across Popova’s words they struck home. We all…