How to Relax and Enjoy Spring

How to Relax and Enjoy Spring

                         Easy To Say – Hard To Do Spring is the busiest time of year. We want to get outdoors and do stuff, yet stormy weather often interferes with our desires. Or we have so many projects to do that we don’t know where to start. Plants pop up...
Kind Speech Comes from an Enlightened Heart

Kind Speech Comes from an Enlightened Heart

KIND SPEECH COMES FROM AN ENLIGHTENED HEART. There’s truth in the old saying, “talk is cheap because words are easy”.  Words are an unlimited resource for dialogue. Language is at the top of the brain’s evolutionary ladder and serves us well for...
The Verb of Being Kind

The Verb of Being Kind

Your Basic Dignity People recognize an inherent dignity in a man or woman who has shown a genuine sense of kindness to others. Kindness is the very essence of all things good about people. And the amazing thing is that almost everyone responds positively to being kind...
Poems For Winter

Poems For Winter

Poems For Winter This selection of words in verse is an invitation to contemplate the nature of this season. My discussions are intended to suggest possibilities for interpretation.You make yours. Let the words pick you up and carry you away to the landscape of these...
How to Make Fear Disappear

How to Make Fear Disappear

Fear is an emotion that has a wide range of manifestations – it could be vague uneasiness, a depressed attitude, a reoccurring avoidance of something threatening, or a sense of impending doom, an urgent need to run away, or striking out with body and speech....
When Does Spring Begin?

When Does Spring Begin?

According to the standard western calendar spring begins on the vernal equinox, around March 20. This is the time when the sun is directly over the equator at noon. However, traditional Chinese culture celebrates the beginning of spring with its Spring Festival in...