One thing I know about happiness is that it comes from the narrative of our life. The story we tell ourselves. But too often, we let others write that story for us. Unhappiness and discontent inevitably follow. The only person who can write the story of your life properly is you. In order to change our narrative to an authentic one, one we write ourselves, we must change our perspective, and thus our perceptions of our world. This is not a new idea. Plato explained it in “Allegory of the Cave” over 2,300 years ago. A small change in perception can mean a huge change in what we see. And changing how we see lets us write a new narrative. The Dalai Lama also explores this idea of the relationship between perception and a good life in his book The Art of Happiness (99¢ in the remainder bin . . . maybe you can buy happiness after all!).
At this late stage of my existence, tattoos have unexpectedly become a significant part of my life. It’s like I have woken up as a character inside the Sunday comics. Tattoos are everywhere and I don’t understand how this trend has occurred. I grew up in an era when tattoos were a major league sin […]
Alex Jones is lucky that lawsuits are all that he is facing.
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Do kangaroos have nightmares? Maybe. Little children sure do. “Daddy…” A small voice called me punctuated by little sobs. I had just put on my pajamas after showering. Hopefully he hadn’t been calling for very long. I hurried across the hall to Byron’s room and opened the door. “What’s the matter, little one?” I asked
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What’s on your playlist? Better yet, how many playlists do you have? What is the soundtrack for your life? I’m sure most of you have one. People find that life goes better with music. There are certain songs I hear and I am transported back in time to a particular place or person or situation.
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What do supporters of President Trump understand that his critics don’t? In other words, what do Trump supporters get right about America? It is not an exaggeration to say that I haven’t seen the country this divided since the Sixties. During my high school and college years, Civil Rights marches, Vietnam War protests, and multiple
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In 2015, a failed attempt by the EPA to contain polluted contents of the Gold King Mine released millions of gallons of water heavily polluted with sulfuric acid and toxic heavy metals into the San Juan River. This environmental disaster took a century to create. It is easy to believe that our ancestors didn’t understand
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