Lifestyle Rhythm

The word, rhythm, swirled in my mind strongly ever since a phone call in January two years ago to cancel a February speaking engagement. My journal that day reads; “After I shared with T the reason that I had to cancel was Jim’s terminal illness, she prayed a very…

Happiness and Joy

To lighten up our blog-life, switching to an easier subject has taken the stage, while the acting crew re-dress for the next couple of scenes and the stage crew switches props, this is my cue to fill 5 minutes with happiness and joy. “How do you describe happiness and joy?…

Simple Connections

Is there any better aroma than from freshly popped corn? One of the simple ways I miss Jim is not having a little blue bowl of popcorn handed to me when we settled in to watch a ball game, which happened frequently.  A couple of verses in Jeremiah 18 brought…

Coaching/Encouraging--Adult Children

Responses and questions not only fuel inspiration for writing but challenge and encourage continued learning by listening and reading.  About everyone, singles, singles-again, parents, mates, adult children and Seniors have experienced and continue to contend with tremendous changes and challenges as the following query indicates.  I trust the discussion triggers…

Balancing Harmonious Heart-Logic with Practical Head-Logic

Inhaling and exhaling, done 24/7 and without much thought, resembles the ease that our behavioral preferences receive information and make decisions, until or unless someone questions our data/dream and/or the decision that we just made, like the following example: 1962 in Verhalen, Texas where we pastored a…

Serendipity

The projected discussion concerning feelings, emotions and cognitive decision-making got bumped by serendipity. Yes, I know, May 30, 2021 was my original serendipity blog in case you missed it. Serendipity, a relatively popular word twenty or so years ago is defined: an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident, a…

Appreciating Phone Reps: Follow-up

The New Year inspires many of us to resolve to form good habits, break poor habits; become a better person, read more, exercise, be more sensitive to others; set new goals, clean out drawers, closets, garages, attics, offices, sheds and be kinder in conversations, etc. Several responses to Appreciating Phone…