I have a place in the mountains of North Carolina and I went there this past weekend to get away, to decompress. It rained the entire weekend, hard. I had a wonderful time. I began to think about why people dread rain so much. I believe it is because the weather parallels our perception of…
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Learning A New Skill Is Exactly Like Target Shooting
There is an old adage among people who shoot a bow and arrows for sport. The center of every target is exactly the same size. Once you realize this, there is no need to get real fancy about your shooting style or worry over the type of arrows you use. The center of your target will always…
How to Win the Wars Within
We may look calm cool and collected on the outside, but decision battles rage on the inside of everyone. You can’t often tell by looking. Sometimes small, sometimes large, only the worst internal battles we fight are the ones that show. These battles may be over mundane things. Should I buy the blue one or…
Look out, here comes the next wave!
Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, things gets worse. Why is that? Why does it sometimes seem bad stuff happens in waves, or in threes, or without let up? The answer is, this is the way our universe operates and it is larger than us. But, the opposite is also true. Good…
Are you an artist?
Ask most people and they will tell you, no. The ones who do will invariably translate artist to painter or maybe sculptor. I believe everyone is an artist, or can be, because the definition is so much broader than painter or sculptor. I started out in first grade just as everyone else. I was asked…