During my recent time in the hospital, I reconnected with an old friend from high school. Shawn visited just about every day. We reminisced about our time in high school. He remembered the times when I was belittled and sometimes bullied because of some of my challenges, from my speech that sometimes prevented me from […]
I talked with a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago about forgiveness. Don’t recall how we started the topic. However we are both Leos. Leo from: Pixabay Forgiveness from: Pixabay And I mentioned that I’m typically easy to hurt, but after I’m over the initial wounding, […]
A recurring theme at Wisdom and life is forgiveness as can be seen from the number of columns in the previous link. I will let this video do most of the work today. Other than to say that holding onto resentment only hurts the person keeping the resentment. Image from: Pixabay The […]
A friend of mine sent me a news article about Sammy Hagar tweeting Happy Birthday to Eddie Van Halen in February. The two former band mates had an acrimonious break up years ago. Image from: Wikimedia Hagar said that the passing of David Bowie and Glenn Frey lead him to mend fences with […]
Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.” And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they’re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel — and then, you’ll love them all. […]
We encourage you to make peace with everyone who opposes you and with everyone whom you oppose, not only because you cannot insist on their yielding to your perspective but because their opposing perspective is of tremendous benefit to you. You see, because of your exposure to what you perceive as their wrong or bad […]
“Everything is cyclical,” Rivers told The Associated Press during a chat last year. “So I just enjoy the good times. And when the bad times come, I know it isn’t forever. It’s happened to me three or four times in my life. But I moved forward.” SFGate.com Image from Wikimedia Joan Rivers has it right. […]
If you could get to the place where you no longer feel a need to push against anything that you disagree with—you would become in alignment with what you do agree with. Even within your own body, it is your pushing against those things you don’t agree with that causes you to be out of […]
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to […]
The thing you fear most needs the most love. One of the best places for affordable amazing food in Madison, Connecticut is Jia Mei Asian Kitchen. I eat there at least twice a week for lunch. I’ve eaten just about everything on their menu and nothing has disappointed. I’ve converted many of my friends […]