Intention

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.”~ Proverbs 12:1 (NIV) ~ Yep. That’s in the Bible. It really says stupid. Not everybody grew up with that book, and that’s fine. But it’s out there, and every now and then we stumble across a line that makes us want to dig a…

“I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”~ Anne Frank ~ Memory’s a funny thing…it slips, it edits itself, it forgets the parts that mattered most. But a pen and a blank page don’t forget anything. Write it down, and it’s yours to keep. There’s something to just shutting…

“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…

“Whatever you call it — it’s enough.”~ The Dude ~ It’s hard to deny there’s something bigger than us as we watch a morning sunrise. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the DayToday I choose to lean on my higher power — not be it.

“Don’t make assumptions.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ This is The Third Agreement. You don’t know. You think you do. You fill in the silence with a story. The unanswered text becomes rejection. The look across the room becomes judgment. The quiet becomes something to worry about. It’s not real. It’s a story you wrote without…

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”~ Socrates ~ I call my higher power God. Good Orderly Direction. That’s my term. That’s what works for me.Whatever you call yours — sub it in. Adonai, Allah, Buddha, Creator, Father, Higher Power, Jesus Christ, The Universe — it doesn’t matter to me. What matters is…