Category: Radiance

Mother’s Day

I vis­it­ed my 98-year old moth­er yes­ter­day. She lives in a nurs­ing home and is very well cared for. She has a love­ly room to her­self with pic­tures and books and mem­o­ra­bil­ia to sur­round her. When we arrived she was nap­ping and when she saw it was me she said after a few moments, “Get… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mother’s Day

On Appreciation

Would it be too much to say that all growth emerges from appre­ci­a­tion? You or I take a class, for exam­ple, in “music appre­ci­a­tion.” We find our­selves becom­ing sen­si­tive in new ways to the aes­thet­ic val­ue of music. Or we rec­og­nize one day what a par­ent or men­tor did for us and we feel appre­cia­tive… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Appre­ci­a­tion

Cross-Over Points

Most of us live in mul­ti­ple worlds simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, the world of our pro­fes­sion­al life and our per­son­al life prob­a­bly the most obvi­ous exam­ple. Much of the time this com­part­men­tal­iz­ing helps us main­tain bal­ance, but some­times it also cre­ates a per­son with mul­ti­ple souls, none of which is entire­ly ful­filled. Inso­far as we man­age the bal­ance,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Cross-Over Points

The God Who Has My Back

I have been think­ing about a phrase I used in my last post about self-trust. Sym­bol­i­cal­ly, I said, I have “a god at my back,” mean­ing sim­ply that there is an ener­gy that sup­ports me from with­in when I meet dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances. Many peo­ple report hav­ing this sense, and know it has got­ten them through… Con­tin­ue read­ing The God Who Has My Back