Yesterday I was having lunch with a good friend. She was telling me that she had shown her mother a photo she had taken of me a while back. Her mother immediately got frightened and judgmental because of the tattoos that were on my forearms. Imagine how she would have responded had she seen all […]
Empathic vs Annoying
Being an empath myself, I totally get when one is gifted and sensitive. We do tend to see things beyond what others see, we are aware of things that are deeper in the psyche of those around us. And we do tend to be called crazy a lot because we do respond to what we […]
Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty
Ever since humans first climbed out of the caves and headed into the world at large, there has been a part of our psyche that has depended upon knowing what lies ahead. After all, if we come around the corner and end up face to face with some huge beast that is wild and unfriendly, […]
Playfulness
When I was a teen I was very much into play. I would not play the games of children, but I would play at different things. For example, if I was shopping with my mother in a grocery store I would pull random things off of the shelves and put them in the shopping carts […]
Waving our Flags
It is estimated that in the twentieth century alone, human beings managed to kill more than two hundred million other human beings in wars and through genocide. Human beings seem to be unique among the planet’s organisms in that we harm and kill other humans not just to protect ourselves physically, not just in pursuit […]