When I was in University, one of the areas of study for me was Sociology. I remember this one particular professor. She was a woman who wore hippie clothing, complete with the Birkenstock sandals, even in winter, and had a thick head of blonde hair that was so curly and frizzy that it was almost […]
Winter is Coming
This is a phrase that was made very famous by HBO’s Game of Thrones. It carried with it a foretelling of doom and gloom, despair and disaster. In the farther north hemisphere of the planet, and, I imagine, in the farther south hemisphere as well, it simply indicates a change of seasons from warm to […]
Distractions
I have been giving a lot of thought these days, with Covid-19 afoot, about the various ways in which people maintain their individual sanity as all of the crazy stuff keeps happening all around us. I have noticed a number of folks on social media doing things like Gratitude lists on a daily basis. I […]
Going Far
There is an African proverb that goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is something that I have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, in my own life. I was raised to be very self-sufficient. I was given responsibilities early on, some of […]
How do We Respond?
How do we respond when we get bad news? Sometimes it is a matter of allowing ourselves time to just go into the depths of despair for a while, knowing we will come out. We sometimes have to remind ourselves that we do, indeed, have to come out of it and back into the LIGHT. […]
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