Throughout my life I’ve been joined by two traveling companions - Death and Uncertainty. It might have been a bleak situation and, indeed it has been at times, if it weren’t for that strange little fellow named Curiosity that we met along the way. Curiosity has an infectious way of sharing his awe over this bizarre experience called life. He likes ( Read more... )

Happiness…

The subject of so much speculation,

The subject of so much angst,

The subject of so much confusion,

No two people that I talk to seem to have a remotely similar understanding of what happiness is. Some don’t even seem to want to be happy. They seem content to disregard it as not being a useful state of mind. Ironically, some of these people ( Read more... )

“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” -
~ Leon Trotsky

~Leon Trotsky

The unexamined life in not worth living

~Socrates (Plato’s Apology 38a)

So many of my colleagues seem to be busy building their careers or looking for that elusive so called meaning of life that they don’t seem to be enjoying their lives. Even worse some are settling because they believe this is the way it has to be. It’s the all time soul suck - ( Read more... )

The theme to Peter Gunn

By way of afterthought in regard to my previous essay I wanted to restate something I have written often. God did not create life so that it would whither and die. God did not create life so that it would degrade into misery and squalor. God created life so that it would grow and prosper abundantly to its fullest potential. When considerring ( Read more... )

Happiness isn’t the absence of pain; Happiness isn’t the absence of uneven experience. Happiness isn’t necessarily a nice house, money in the bank and food on the table. In short happiness has nothing to do with the message of the Western world’s corporate conglomerates who sell us hope in the form of unbridled consumerism, a message reinforced by ( Read more... )

Marsha Sinetar says “Do what you love and the money will follow.” She even wrote a book with that as the title. But here is the thing…I love to sit around coffee shops drinking coffee, reading, scribbling in my journal and talking with friends. So far I haven’t seen any money follow me into my bank account. This is disconcerting as I really, really ( Read more... )

Ultimately depression may be selfish, but you telling me that doesn't jolly me out of it and pep me up. If nothing else your selfish and stupid remark just makes it worse. Rather than being helpful your thougthlessness makes me angry! I am sick of insensistive people who seem to think you can just "will" yourself out of depression.  A depressed ( Read more... )

A wicked little wind just blew in through the window. It rustled my blinds and used it as a whip snapping and slapping all of my pictures off the window sill. It smells and feels like fall even though it is still the butt end of August. It should be hotter, drier for this time of year. The weather woman says it will get back into the 80s tomorrow. ( Read more... )