Put The Bill Down

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.”~Anne Lamott~ Your phone needs to recharge. Your laptop needs to recharge. Turns out, so do you. The Dude figured this out the hard way. Now he builds the pause in before the day builds it out of him. Unplug….

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”~Walter Hagen~ Mama’s got a rule: if it’s pretty, you stop for it. Doesn’t matter if she’s got somewhere to be. She’ll slow her whole walk down for a good patch of wildflowers along the…

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”~Josh Billings~ They came to us in a box nobody else wanted. Best decision we never had to think twice about. Dogs don’t know distraction. No scrolling, no half-attention — just you, completely, every single time. Luke went first. Leia…

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”~ John Muir ~ Look at a river long enough and you start to see it. Every tributary feeds the next one. Every stream finds its way to something bigger. Nothing out there is doing it alone……

“Every human being has a true, genuine, authentic self.”~Gabor Maté~ Somewhere under all the noise, the roles, the version of you that shows up for everyone else — there’s the one that’s just you. Life buries that person sometimes. Stress does. Old wounds do. Trying to be who everybody needed you to be does. But…

“Time heals what reason cannot.”~ Seneca ~ Somebody hurt you. Maybe a long time ago. Maybe last week. Maybe you’re still not sure what exactly happened — just that something in you went sideways and hasn’t quite come back yet. You’ve talked about it. Thought about it. Looked at it from every angle. Read the…