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 [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 13th, 2007
Forgetting the Magic
Do you remember what it was like to be a child?
Not the frustration.
There was plenty of that.
Not the endless procession of “NO” and “You can’t do that.”
Not even the tantrum demands for something in a spirit of “I’ve got to have this or I’ll die.”
No. Not that either.
And for those of [...]
Posted in Manage, Strategize, & Organize on Aug 6th, 2007
Stuck in Line
Do you ever call some number for customer service and sit through a nearly endless series of voice prompts just to ask a simple question?
Have you ever dealt with someone who hides behind the tiny slice of the world that he seems to be in charge of? He might only be in charge [...]
Posted in Learn, Think, & Decide on Jul 28th, 2007
Fear and Predictability
Control is overrated.
Sure, we want the world to work in somewhat predictable ways, but at what cost?
When my kids were little and fighting, sometimes the only thing I thought about was getting control and stopping the fighting.
And for a person or country that’s under attack and wants to make it stop, control seems [...]
Posted in Possibility & Personal Growth on Jul 15th, 2007
All of life’s a stage
It’s an old question in philosophy and religion:
Is our experience of life in this world real?
It sounds a little crazy to ask the question, doesn’t it? It makes you think of people who are mentally unbalanced, who can’t tell the difference between the world they live in and the hallucinations [...]
Posted in Hiding From Yourself, Possibility & Personal Growth on Jul 6th, 2007
The Roots of All Evil
Money.
Why do we love it, and hate it?
How did we get so messed up about money?
Money does seem to be at the root of many problems.
People commit crimes for money.
They betray their integrity and their beliefs to get a little more money.
Countries go to war for land or natural resources or [...]
Posted in Affirmation Poems on Jul 5th, 2007
Here’s another affirmation poem.
(For a description of the concept see the beginning of Endless River of Living Fire)
I Face Each Day With Love
Listening to silence,
as I walk through the day.
Emotions fall upon endless faces,
and words surround them like a cloud.
Like a butterfly,
my heart lands,
shares a feeling,
for a moment,
and then,
flies deep,
into darkness,
discovering,
an unending inner world,
with love.
I [...]
