..if livin’ is without you….” Last night on American Idol James Durbin resurrected a song, that back in college, in 1971, literally changed the way I thought about life. I remember, during my freshman year, that song was playing when one of my roommates walked into the room. I was singing along with the song, . . . → Read More: “Can’t Live….
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You would think that if perhaps you knew the answer to this question, you could avoid heartaches and run the other way. Some old adages try to explain heartaches. We've all heard it said that "There's a reason for everything" and "If it doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger" which was always a favorite . . . → Read More: Where Do Heartaches Come From? I read so many stories about broken hearts. They are always written about or by the person whose heart was broken. Very seldom do I come across the story of a person who did the breaking. I have had my heart broken some over the years. A few times I thought the pain was so . . . → Read More: The Other Side of a Broken Heart I have a friend who is enamored with rocks. Each time we go to the beach when she visits, she is drawn in some way to examining them and bringing the special ones back home. She’d leave them around the house in small piles and I’d find them after she left. Last summer she . . . → Read More: On The Rocks …I learned from the Easter Bunny! Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Everyone needs a friend who is all ears. There’s no such thing as too much candy. All work and no play can make you a basket case. A cute tail attracts a lot of attention. Everyone is entitled to a bad . . . → Read More: All I Need to Know…. I once spent a whole afternoon chasing the wind. I was only ten at the time, but the movie of that afternoon stills plays clearly in my head. I was in my friend Nancy’s backyard and the wind was strong and gusty that day. Three buildings surrounded her small yard and the wind picked up . . . → Read More: Chasing the Wind “The tea ritual: such a precise ritual of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations; a license given to all, at little cost, to become aristocrats of taste, because tea is the beverage of the wealthy and the poor; the tea ritual, therefore has the extraordinary virtue of . . . → Read More: The Ritual of Tea I think trust is the most feared word in the English language. Remember the childhood game of falling backward and trusting someone to catch you? Who would you have trusted to do that? Your best friend or the school bully? Of course you’d trust your best friend. You knew your best friend by history and . . . → Read More: Step With Risk, And Land With Trust Moving forward in life and forging ahead on a positive path is difficult enough, but if we harbor anger, hold grudges, or allow ourselves to “what if” over events in the past, moving forward is almost impossible. Many times we blame obstacles in front of us for keeping us from reaching our goals, when we . . . → Read More: Don’t Trip Over The Things Behind You There are a small group of people that you are bonded to, for one reason or another, for life. This you absolutely know and feel in your soul. No matter how bad it gets, you will always be together – no matter what. “No matter what” are three words that speak volumes. Those three . . . → Read More: As Iron Sharpens Iron, So A Friend Sharpens A Friend |
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