What is Normal?
There are people that I have met whose life choices I don’t understand. Their normal is so outside my frame of reference as to appear insane. I can’t imagine the journey that lead them to the worldview...
View ArticleAnd Another Thing
Another thing that I don’t get is the zealousness with which some people celebrate October 31. Well obviously not the date but the event associated with the date. We have neighbours who begin...
View ArticleHope is in The Air
Where does hope come from? My head? My heart? My faulty logic? Some survival strategy? I am not sure how hope manifests but I am sure that as I observe it, it becomes infectious, viral and creative ....
View ArticlePositive Possibililities
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. ~...
View ArticleHope Can be a Struggle
Hope is around every corner. If we open our hearts to a hopeful perspective, it can be found. Hope has the power to change the world. But there are other forces in the world and they can have a death...
View ArticleIf You Seek Hope, She Will Find You
I set out yesterday, ready to meet hope around the corner. She wasn’t in the places that I expected her; in my morning run or a walk along the river. She didn’t jump out of a closet and surprise me...
View ArticleExpress Your Gratitude
Gratitude has a powerful connection to hope. If I express my thanks to someone who has shared a story, helped me complete a task or gave me a small gift, I am sharing and inviting hope into our lives....
View ArticleFeeling Good
I caught a cold; snuffles, sneezing and a cough a couple of days ago and have been ‘feeling under the weather’. I realized that how I am feeling physically doesn’t need to prohibit hopefulness. Even...
View ArticleI Choose Hope Again Today
Some people call this naïve. I call it hope. And it takes plenty of courage. It takes much less courage to accept defeat by choosing cynicism. Giving up on yourself, your family and your community...
View ArticleHope is the Key
Hope will unlock the cage. It is the key. Despair, depression, distress, cynicism are bars to moving forward and hope unlocks the prison. Hope is waiting for you to seek her so she can manifest herself...
View ArticleHope versus Fear
Hope can quell fear or at least hold it at bay. This week we celebrate Remembrance Day, not to glorify war or death, but to honour those whose hope for a safer, better world took them across seas to...
View ArticleWhat Happened November 10, 1983?
It is known as Windows Day. Microsoft announces a new product, Windows, to compete with other graphical environments for computers, such as interface on the Apple Lisa. After several delays, Windows...
View ArticleHope in Something
We extend hope in something; a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen, a feeling of trust. A better tomorrow for a new generation rises from a hope in our systems changing. A...
View ArticleA Programming Error
If you find yourself wallowing in despair, manufacturing cynicism, or dreading in depression and a run, a head shake, or a change of scenery (temporary) you may need to do a reboot. When you are...
View ArticleWorld Kindness Day
Today is World Kindness Day 2015. The only minor disagreement I might have with the organizers is the idea of random acts of kindness. I believe that we need to be intentional about all things...
View ArticleReason
Hope has power beyond a reframing tool. Hope can be a significant and positive motivator. It can and does deliver a reason to keep running the race, staying in the contest, believing in yourself and...
View ArticleRome ne s’est pas faite en un jour.
November 15, 2016, the middle of Hope Month. I have had hopeful highs and seen hope manifest itself and it’s providence in front of my eyes. I have also struggled to see hope, especially in light of...
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. ~ Jonas Salk The sun came up, just as I was reaching 6 kilometer mark in my morning run today. I...
View ArticleWhat If?
What if you knew that you couldn’t be dissuade? Defeated? Disturbed? What if you knew that you would succeed? Maybe not exactly as you imagine but succeed remarkably? What if you knew that you are...
View ArticleThe Smallest Things
I read an essay on Aeon this morning ” Engineering the Ocean” abou how tiny plankton may be the solution to global warming. I am not a scientist but the solution that include increase the iron intake...
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