Category: Generosity
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More Thoughts About Love…
What pops into your head at the thought of love? Valentine’s Day? Your sweetie? Kitty cats and puppy dogs? Fear can keep us from venturing toward love. If love is given, it can be taken away. Loving our neighbors, all neighbors, is driven by our thoughts about love. If it is too precious to be…
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Who Do You Love?…
Do you love your neighbor? All of them? Even the cranky ones who let their dogs leave deposits in your yard? How much do you love the panhandler who holds a cardboard sign day after day? What about the person you like the least? These questions give me pause. I’m fascinated by people watching and…
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Response Ability…
What are you giving to your world? What are you receiving in return? There’s a connection, you know. Years ago, I saw a skit that involved women carrying buckets filled to the brim with an attitude unique to each one. Life took over, the world bumped into them, and their contents spilled. What a memorable…
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Good and Plenty…
Abundance mentality is one of my guiding ELAN Principles. It does not mean to seek greedy gains, but rather to celebrate gifts that are freely given and to respond in kind. It is the opposite of the fear-based view of scarcity urging you to hoard that which you deem finite. Pay attention. Look for gifts…
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Boom Boom Day…
Today is a Boom Boom Day. Many moving pieces and parts will fit together in a perfect ballet of be there, prepare for this, don’t forget, smile, greet, learn and travel to and fro. At least that’s the plan. I have the honor of hosting Best Selling Author Zibby Owens at a local book event.…
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Quote of the Week…
“Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.” Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
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Who Are You Wearing?…
It’s Award Season, a bright spot in these sometimes-gloomy months. The Grammy’s are my favorite, for the music, but you can’t beat the Oscars for the haute couture. Avant-garde, classic, understated, absurd. What fun to watch the rich and famous answer “Who are you wearing?” We all wear an invisible cloak. One that has nothing…
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Love in the Deeps…
In a tiny book called “true love,” Thich Nhat Hanh offers a “telephone” meditation to bring harmony into a relationship. In today’s world, perhaps we could call it Texting Meditation or DMing Meditation. His suggestion to wait a few rings before answering a ringing phone traces back to when we didn’t know who might be…
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Word of the Year…
This year I’m adopting a focus word for 2024; one to ground me, spur me on toward an inward or outward goal. I’m trained to be a keen observer. That can translate to deep passion on all sides – love but also judgement, joy but also fear, excitement but also agitation. While seeking signs of…
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Pick a Side…
One of the many things I gleaned from the recent conference I attended was the distinction between those who are bent on destruction and those who champion creativity. It is one of the many catchy dualities into which we love to divide the world. Night owls and morning people; cold-natured, hot-natured; extrovert, introvert; blue or…
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