Tag: mindfulness
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Lessons from 2025
It is the time of year to reflect on 2025 and the lessons it brought. As we begin 2026, it would be easy to make declarations about all the things I will change, but that rarely comes to pass. I will still stay up late and still drink too much coffee. With that, here are…
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Before Happiness Got Complicated
Happiness is a funny thing. We talk about it as if it’s something we once held effortlessly, something we carried around as children before adult life barged in with schedules, bills, disappointments, and general nonsense. We look back on childhood through a soft-focus lens and convince ourselves that we were happy all the time—running around…
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Know Your Worth
“People get what they deserve.”“Good things happen to good people.”“You get what you work for.” Let’s call this exactly what it is—polished, inspirational, refrigerator-magnet bullshit. If life actually handed out rewards based on effort or moral virtue, half the crooks would be bankrupt, the decent people would be wealthy, and we wouldn’t need dollar-store wisdom…
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The Quiet Struggle of Patience
Of all the virtues, patience might be the most misunderstood—and the hardest to practice. We often talk about it as a soft, saintly quality: the ability to wait calmly, to endure without complaint. But for many people, being patient isn’t about keeping their cool in a long grocery line. It’s a daily internal battle, one…
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Regrets? I’ve had a few
As I enter the final year of my fifties, two phrases seem to surface: “if only”, and “I wonder.” I recently ran into an old high school classmate, and we went through the usual catching-up rituals: how are the kids, receding hairlines, comparing aches and pains. Then he asked if I had regrets about choices…
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Decluttering
The optimist in me says Spring is indeed at hand. The object we call the sun seems to be making a regular appearance, and we can shed a layer or two of clothing. Bliss at its finest. However, one must always make room for caution as it is not unheard of for our geographic and…
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Perspective
“We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are”. – Anais Nin If I had made a New Years resolution, it would have been broken in record time. So, to quit drinking coffee is not going to happen. At the start of the year, I prefer to identify some “hopes”, things…
Too Many Anchors 