“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde Given the extraordinary era in which we are now…
It’s more like a war on words to determine who gets to ‘own’ key words and catch phrases so as to purposefully distort the intent behind their previously agreed upon…
Few of us give conscious thought to the everyday metaphors that color our communications. Yet these prefabricated phrases are often loaded with undesirable inferences that retain their currency, and perhaps…
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a…
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies…
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”. Buckminster Fuller, 20th C American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist One…
With everything that’s going on right now, I’ve been thinking about a beautiful, heart-centered mentor/friend who’s older ½-brother was beaten in early childhood by his police officer bio-dad. He grew…
In our 2nd session of the WordMagic WordShoppe, one of the participants introduced us to the Japanese word moai [moe-eye], which essentially means, ‘meeting for a common purpose.’ This is…