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The Gift of Ordinary Kindness
When readers tell me that they are enjoying my book, it makes my heart sing. If it inspires them to expand their creative adventures, I'm doubly delighted. Last week, I received an email with the subject "Brava" that brightened my day. The content made me...
Blessing the glad and the sad
Thanksgiving in the US is almost here, the day we sit around the table, hopefully with family and friends, and share with each other what we are grateful for. Usually, it's the good stuff—what has made us smile or given us joy—the "glads." But this year, I feel...
Eight ways to help your brain chill (and not be a boiled frog)
Peter Senge taught me the lesson of the boiled frog in his 1990 book, The Fifth Discipline. He described how, if you want to boil a frog, you put him in cold water and gradually turn up the heat. The frog won't notice the incremental changes until it's too late. He...
Completion challenge: Surviving and thriving at harvest time
I always thought harvesting was the fun part of the growing cycle. I still do; I just didn't realize that it could be such hard work. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I planted so many apple trees, but I certainly wasn't considering what it would take to pick,...
Do you need a “mistake pass”?
A vocal coach in Australia described her method of helping the participants in her classes sing more freely: she gives them each ten "mistake passes." She knows that when students are concerned with singing "right," their bodies will tense, their throats constrict,...
When clouds get in the way
Does it ever happen to you that—when things are going great—blue sky and fresh breezes—some small thing derails you and lets a host of storm clouds cover the sky? Even though you know that the sun, the light, is out there, those clouds are in no hurry to move on....
What’s in your manifesto? (Is it time to share what you believe?)
These days, a lot of people are so busy saying what they're against that we never hear what they're for.Throughout history, though, the world has been changed by people who dared to stand up and declare what they believed—from Jesus to Martin Luther to Marx. I love...
Growing high/growing low
Most trees and plants grow by reaching upward toward the light while sinking roots into the darkness of the earth. We grow as we look upward and let our hearts expand with light and joy. And it feels good to feel rooted as well. But there’s another growth path...
Storying a more meaningful life (and a tribute to Juliet Bruce)
Stories teach. Stories heal. Stories transform. Working with stories, both ours and others, can help us find meaning and live a more vibrant life. And stories may help us prepare for death. I don't speak about that last from experience. For years I have preached,...
The Courage to Be Mediocre
Does the idea of being mediocre stop you from trying to do the creative thing you've always wanted to do? If so, join the club. The fear of never-being-good-enough can become our bullet-proof reason to not experiment and explore a new area where we’re not going to...
