Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 25th, 2008
Cheap Laughs
Laughter and jokes and play are undervalued in our serious adult world.
We think of all of these as entertainment, just a way to escape the stress and burdens of a threatening world which weighs us down.
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying more than you can bear?
Laughter picks up those burdens, and [...]
Posted in LifeDreams, Plans & Action on Jan 9th, 2008
Afraid to Change
Are you afraid to change?
We all are.
It’s a side effect of the way our mind makes sense of the world.
Let me explain.
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Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Sep 16th, 2007
Childhood’s End?
“Stop fooling around!”
Did you ever hear that from a parent or a teacher?
Maybe you ignored it and got into trouble.
Or, more likely, you eventually listened, and stopped.
But that wasn’t the end of your desire to play.
You probably still like to play in some way.
Although you probably don’t call it play, except when you play [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 29th, 2007
Addicted to Extremes
Turn up the volume.
That’s our answer to every need.
Why are we addicted to extremes?
Look around.
Our senses are assaulted daily by a mountain of sensations, and our minds are overloaded with information.
And it’s not simply the quantity of sensations, or the speed with which we encounter them.
They’re competing for our attention.
In the midst of [...]
Posted in Hiding From Yourself, LifeDreams on Aug 7th, 2006
I have a long commute to work. Much of the time is filled with prayer, reading, and writing. I’m strongly inner-focused as I travel; yet I often travel with a smile. The time will pass anyway. Why not enjoy it?
I can’t help noticing, though, as I ride the subway part of my journey, how “serious”, how [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create on Aug 4th, 2006
My oldest daughter once gave my wife and me a simple personality test. Miriam loves personality tests. Yes, I find them intriguing as well. I love the idea of finding patterns and predictability in the wonderfully wild and unpredictable world of people and how they behave. But these tests only model a person’s behavior, and [...]
