"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays." - W.C. Jones. The word joy is used often around Christmas time. I think this is because those who love the season are in a giving mood, and being generous brings a feeling of
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." - unknown. Loss is a separation, and being separated from something we want makes us sad. Since the only thing that is sure in life is change, we will experience many losses before the ultimate loss- death.
"Music is what feelings sound like." - unknown. I do not know what the most popular Christmas song of all time is, but I read that Bing Crosby's White Christmas is the best-selling (over 50 million copies sold). I found that interesting. The song is wistful
"Be decisive, right or wrong. Make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision." - unknown. In my last post, I expressed gratitude for being able to choose how to view what happens to me in this life. Interestingly
"Offering genuine gratitude comes from a willingness to take account for all you have been given and to understand that none of it was guaranteed." - Day Schildkret. The season of thanksgiving is here. Thanksgiving and gratitude are not the same thing. Gratitude is a feeling that you have,
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie. Who makes a good leader? A leader is not a manager; they aren't there to make sure that you get your job
"I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade. but loyalty never fades." - Sylvester Stallone What does it mean to be loyal? Loyalty is being faithful to something. It can be a person/persons, a country, a brand or business, or an
"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." -Terence McKenna. Our perception shapes language. We describe what we experience using words that
October- the month of ghosts, graveyards, haunted houses, and scary movies. Why do we love to be scared so much that we would make a holiday out of it? Holidays are a way for us to break up the everyday drudgery of life, and being scared does shift our focus
"To deny your age is to deny you've survived." - Nikki Giovanni. I have been contemplating the years that I have been a person on this planet recently. My father just had his eightieth birthday, and I know that, as quickly as time goes by, I am
The pressures of modern life can be overwhelming, leading some of us to wish that we either lived in a past time period or perhaps in the future, after the human race has worked through the issues we face now. As time machines are not readily available, we must find
"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind." - Edgar Allen Poe. I don't know about you, but I have been convinced that my mind has been trying to kill me for years. It likes to worry, replay past events that I