Saturday Mornings

I'm wondering ... what comes to mind when we hear the term ‘creature’?

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There are so many things that we do to ourselves that just aren’t... helpful .  We eat (and drink) way more than we need to — which kind of ...

He began the GOP’s weekly leadership briefing by saying lawmakers were on a path to finishing a major defense budget bill this week. “We’ve ...

There is no successful high performance without well-being . There is no such thing as constant stability, or complete control; both notions...

Don't move the way fear makes you move. -- Rumi

Ever heard someone say, "I just don’t see it…." The intention often seems to imply that a claim of truth being made isn't rea...

The path to wisdom is paved with humility . -- Tim Fargo An observation which seems to be quite applicable in both business and life.

I've noticed ...I'm better (more comfortable) in settings of dialog than in settings of monolog. ...helpful for me to keep in mind, ...

Physicist Neil de Grasse Tyson reminds us that our solidarity is not a choice, it’s a reality . He says we’re all connected to each other bi...

Love drops reciprocity — especially over time. Judging people is just too easy — it doesn’t require very much at all (of us). Fault-finde...

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' Poem for the week' -- "The Music of Beauty": To me thy lips are mute, but when I gaze Upon thee in thy perfect loveline...

  Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many problems are not resolved simply due to lack of proximity.  We often just can’t care as much...from a distance. We have a car wash in o...

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bert...

Ever noticed ...that, in general, people who don't live in proximity to others tend to push a more hard-line ideology about how others ...

Instagram:  bobgoff God is never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are. -- Bob Goff I'm not sure how...

Anxiety is a response to not seeing a way to resolve what is happening with what we need (or desire), especially when it is being prevente...

On the Lighter Side :

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.  -- Gandhi

If we don’t realize how lucky (fortunate) some of us are in relation to certain things in our lives, we may not be capable of comprehending ...

Offer your strengths to others and you will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you. -- Simon  Sinek

I'm wondering ...if you feel like you have ever really “swung for the fences“?  I’m not sure I have and I don’t know what all the implic...

The Hebrew prophets are in a category of their own. Within the canonical, sacred scriptures of other world religions we don’t find major te...

It is often actually quite difficult to determine what we mean by a better life — usually it just means getting more .... My sense of justic...

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' Poem for the week' -- "True Freedom": As we celebrate our unique history –  and, indeed, Your presence in that history...

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. -- Barbara Kingsolver

If privilege is just too charged of a word, perhaps just thinking in terms of advantages would help. Can you forgive an institution? Perhaps...

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness . -- Louis D. Brandeis On  July 4 , 1776 the Second Continent...

I've noticed ...one of the more persistent tensions I have in my life is over the amount of agency I have.  So often there is a 'sh...

Sometimes, being a good Christian meant being a bad Roman.  So before you accuse people of being unpatriotic, ask yourself which empire the...

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting. -- Haruki Murakami I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but o...

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What If ...we are being given so much more than we know, right in the middle of the circumstances we are in (perhaps because of them or, e...

If we go for the easy way, we never change . -- Marina Abramovic

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in  beliefs . -- Tony  Robbins As noted  earlier this week , changing our minds (especially o...

Addictive behavior keeps us unaware of what is going on inside us. -- Anne Wilson Schaef

Ever noticed ...that you rarely ‘win’ arguments?  …or how (relatively) powerless you are to change what someone else thinks ?

An evolving faith is one that survives by adapting to change . -- Rachel Held Evans

Just because people occasionally get struck by lightning doesn’t mean that lightning is a  bad  thing…. We become good at something that we’...

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' Poem for the week' -- "Evening": Another word I love is evening for the balance it implies, balance being something I s...

Letting go gives us  freedom , and freedom is the only condition for happiness . -- Thích Nhat Hanh

On Wednesdays, I usually write up about 1000 words (give or take 500).  How about a pic today instead, since we’re vacationing this week in ...

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -- Terry Pratchett

I'm wondering ...about emotional gaps.  Do you ever feel a kind of gap between you and another person at times?  I wonder if the gaps we...

Enjoying an amazing time (and views) with the family in Granby, CO this Fathers Day.  So glad to be together seeing the beauty of God’s work...

Many times you can’t do it, if you haven’t put yourself in a position to do it. Perhaps one of the truest measures of humility is our int...

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While unintelligent people are more easily misled by other people, intelligent people are more easily misled by themselves. They’re better a...

Instagram:  richvillodas I don't have concrete data to back this up, but I think the quality of our conversation regarding polarizing...