If you look up the word joy in the dictionary, you will find the answer, “a source or cause of delight”. I like the word delight because for me it conjures images of people at a party talking, laughing, and having fun. They are with family and friends with wide smiles. The picture in my […]
What if the key to life is just not being stupid?
Or Maybe It’s Just be kind. We sure could use the key to life right about now because the world is in a state that I have never seen in my lifetime. Kindness is something we all appreciate. It’s normally something that is displayed the brightest during the holiday season from the end of […]
Delight How Forces of Nature Mold and Destroy Everything.
Events, small or large have the potential to change everything. Recently, my good friend Seth wrote on his blog 5 sentences. The ocean is made of drops Seth Godin That’s easy to say but hard to visualize. Even a puddle has more drops than we can count. It’s got to be difficult to be […]
The secret to happiness; it’s wanting what you get.
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get. – Alex Trebek I’ve been pondering this quote for three days now, since I first saw it following Alex Trebek’s death. I’m trying to understand what it means and how to explain it to you, my readers. The […]
A Reminder About Life.
For the second time in 3 days, I learned of the death of a former classmate and it has shaken me. Both were my age. One had a heart attack and leaves behind a wife and 4 year old daughter. The second, while I have no information, I suspect it may have been an unnatural […]
What Were You Thinking
On October 1 of 2020, I began an exercise of standing on the street corner in the morning holding a sign that reads “Good Morning” and other phrases like “Today is a good day to be happy.” I smile, I wave, I even dance a little (very little). My premise was simple, go out every […]