Everyone Is Your Teacher

“He who is in harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”~Confucius (paraphrase, Doctrine of the Mean)~ Some things you can’t force. You can study a river for years and still not understand it the way you do standing at its edge for five quiet minutes. Harmony isn’t something…

“No change, no progress. No continuous change, no continuous progress.”~ Cowboy Tim ~ We took a breath yesterday. Good. Now look around. What do you see? Change isn’t something that happens to us — it’s something we have to keep showing up for. Every single day. Not just once, not just when things get bad…

“You have to be odd to be number one.”~Dr. Seuss~ Some people ease into a room. Zink is certainly not one of them. From day one she came out swinging — big personality, big laugh, bigger presence. While her brother Tink was busy calculating his next move, Zink had already taken over the room, made…

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”~Jon Kabat-Zinn~ A hummingbird beats its wings 80 times per second. Eighty times. Per second. If your attention is somewhere else — and let’s be honest, it usually is — that thing was here and gone before you even looked up. A flash of green…

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”~Ferris Bueller~ Everybody’s in a hurry these days. Phones buzzing. Feeds scrolling. Calendars stacked wall to wall. We chase the next thing before we’ve even felt the thing we’re in. Here’s the truth nobody tells you: the…

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”~ Carl Rogers ~ Nobody ever really arrives. Not really. You hit one goal and there’s already another one waiting on the other side of it. The house, the promotion, the number on the scale…it’s never actually the…