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!).
I ate a raspberry yesterday. Big deal, you might respond. Anybody can do that. And it’s true. For a price, anybody can buy and eat raspberries. But not the one I had. First of all, I’m not a big fan of raspberries au natural. In jam or cheesecake, yes. After all, cheesecake makes everything taste […]
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The shovel ripped into the pile of gravel with a grinding sound as I sweated through the task of turning multiple piles of gravel into a smooth driveway. Our one acre property had a lot of driveway. Until now it had been nothing but mud and clay. Two dump truck loads of ¾ inch gravel
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One of the few prejudices still practiced openly in this country is the rejection of atheists. Polls show that no person who declares themselves an atheist can get elected. (Just in case anyone wants to vote me into some political office, let the record show that I am not an atheist. I am a firm,
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Some Bronco fans are freaking out over the 2021 draft because Denver didn’t draft a quarterback. It doesn’t help when sportswriters like Woody Paige give Denver an F for the draft as a result. Paige reminds me of my late father-in-law, who, in his dementia, would ask me why Denver wasn’t running an interception play
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Before Democrats consign to Donald Trump the title of worst president ever, they might want to remember the last couple of times they tried to give that label to a Republican. It’s going to be pretty hard to dislodge Millard Filmore, Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor, and Herbert Hoover from the bottom of the presidential trash
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“E Pluribus Unum.” Out of many, one. Our national motto, written in a dead language so the meaning wouldn’t change with the vagaries of daily use. The founders understood the necessity of correct use of language as well as those who subvert its meaning to their own selfish ends. Words matter. Exhibit A is that
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