So Christmas is over. And now the Christmas hangover begins. Leftovers, leftover relatives, returning gifts, wincing at the bank statement, putting away all the decorations, deciding if you’re taking down the Christmas lights or not, you know the drill. And getting ready to watch the year change from 2011 to 2012. And while all that…
Today is such dichotomy. Either you are at your destination and so have shaken off all the cares and worries of the world and are settled in for enjoyment of the holiday or you are freaking out trying to get all the last-minute minutia done before you run out of time. Or you have run…
Patience. That’s the best thing I can recommend at this point. Unless you’re driving out of a metropolitan area between 1am and 4am there will be traffic and you will be in the middle of it (physics and statistics not withstanding. This is a magical season, after all). So be patient. I know that they…
Ok, so your back hurts, your wrist hurts, you’re tired, you’re harried, you’re hectic, you’re frustrated…..you get the picture. Just remember, this is just one moment in time. When it all feels like it’s crashing down on you and you are at your wit’s end, this is jut one moment in time. There will be…
I enjoy observing the Winter Solstice as a way to mark the changing of the year. For me it’s the shortest day of the year and for my friends in the Southern Hemisphere it’s the longest. So officially, from today onwards, the days get longer and there is more and more light to be enjoyed. …
We think of greedy people as wrong and bad and possibly evil. We see them as hurting others to get what they want, disregarding everything in their path. We have images of them as twisted and angry looking, hunched over with eyes that bore through you trying to get to what they want. However greed…
Christmas time is supposed to be about love and giving and coming together and sharing and…well you get the idea. And it is. But it is also a time when a spot light is shown on those situations where that is not the case. When everyone is supposed to be happy and hanging out with…
There comes a point where you are grasping at straws. When you know there are things to be grateful for, but you are just so beaten down, and rightfully so, that you have moved beyond the ability to voice gratitude. When you get past the, “Wow, I survived it” and you look at the aftermath…
Having our days spent focusing on the day-to-day stuff of life can seem pretty mundane, but when you think about it, it keeps us fairly sane. If you look at those people who don’t think about the mundane, but focus on the structure of life and all it’s implications, you get saints, martyrs, philosophers, and…
You know, it’s the big catastrophic stuff we worry about, but it’s the little stuff that snows us under like death from a thousand cuts. I don’t stay awake at night worrying about Occupy WallStreet and all the hundreds of Occupy groups that are out there, or the threat of Nuclear disaster, or the threat…