There is some deep and valuable study about human nature in here – I’m just not quite sure what it is yet. But it is the fundamental difference between those who eat their least favorite things off the dinner plate first so they can end with the good stuff and those who eat the good…
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I write a lot about animals that I like, dogs and cats and in particular my dogs and cats because I have an active relationship with them. I know them well, I observe their behavior, we interact. I find them interesting and I love them, probably this is connected. But I live in a place…
How long is the “new dog” new for? He was used, so to speak, when we brought him home so he was always only ever new to us. But even in that new-ness how long do we get to say, “well he’s new and just settling in?” Perhaps until we get a newer dog? We…
When you opt out of receiving email communiqués you are sending a message of your very own, to wit ‘I am not interested in the thing that you want me to be interested in.’ Maybe it doesn’t apply, maybe you don’t need it, maybe it was for an old job and now you have a…
I read many professional resources for managing business, employees, life, balance – I like to gather lots of perspectives on how to simply manage it all and it is curious to me how much information out there contradicts so much other information out there, and how much of all of that good advice would require…
My spiritual practice centers primarily around Jewish holidays and rituals. I say primarily because really it’s complicated and not only did I grow up in different faith traditions, I also feel like there is a lot to learn from different traditions that can help us generally get closer to living a spiritual life. No one…
To “help” means to assist someone in moving in a particular direction or to serve someone food or drink, so perhaps it is not reasonable to expect someone to respond in a helpful way if the help we are asking for does not fall into one of those categories. Over time the word “help” has come to connote much…
When you have more than one child the youngest, no matter how old they are, is doomed to be the baby forever. They can’t help it and neither can you. It’s not that they aren’t both loved, nurtured, cared for and doted on it’s just that one is the little one, the young one, the…
Gazoil and diesel are the same thing, maybe you new this because you speak French. Maybe you did not know this and by following what you thought were the directions on the gas cap and the pump you found yourself stranded in a medieval village in the French countryside. I did the latter and so…
That’s what little children say when they are declaring their independence, their readiness to take on the task that you might think you want to do or that they need you to do. “I do it,” my tiny daughter would say, confidently. Not asking a question like, “can I try,” or even suggesting an opportunity,…
Faith Works 