Restorative Reminders
Even with its refined sophisticated order of spinning on its axis around the radiant sun, our world will someday be engulfed by the sun itself! The NASA scientists say so. “Like all stars, our Sun will eventually run out of…
A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 –1906 The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o’erOur fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled with goodly store. Thou hast, with ever watchful eye, Looked…
In Most Ways, Gratitude is a Larger Version of Thanksgiving Gratitude is both a state and a trait (Jans-Beken et al., 2020) and according to Dr. Robert Emmons, the feeling of gratitude involves two stages – These two stages of gratitude comprise…
When you google how to dismiss the distress of decision fatigue you will find some great practical tips on how to cope with it. James Clear in his article How Willpower Works: How to Avoid Bad Decisions (link here) sends out some…
“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.”– James Baldwin What is Decision fatigue? Have you ever…
JOMO is Joy of Missing Out Pitted against Fomo, Jomo can be a competitor of Fomo, yet it isn’t, because Jomo is essentially the place of solace. And we need to put in more effort to practice Jomo than Fomo!…
Morning Meditation by Rainer Maria Rilke Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not search for the answers, which could not be given…
German philosopher Josef Pieper, author of Leisure, the Basis of Culture, describes how the meaning of leisure is distorted over time. He says, “What is normal is work, and the normal day is the working day.” “The simple “break” from work — the…
WAGMI is ‘We Are Going to Make It’ If you have thought of inner punishments like – Where is my life taking me? Have I hit the mid-life crisis? The world is huge and more difficult than I thought! If…
We are the Indoor Generation! The ‘millennials and genzee-ers’ are the indoor generations. Because it is our generation that has spent more alone time with our gadgets than any other generation in history. Our generation has quickly adapted to home…