Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2019 One of the best known poems of the Nineteenth Century was the “Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It captures both the courage soldiers display when facing certain death and the foolishness of war.
The Light Brigade had been ordered to charge the front, and although that meant charging into certain death, […]
Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 June 2019 Have you noticed how something that is difficult to learn can be made much easier with humor? Training with Richard Bandler and John LaValle often resulted in our jaws hurting from laughing so hard. Joel and Debra infused SCS/NLP trainings with humor, too, including those who were laughing at our foibles behind our backs and […]
Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2019 A long time ago, back in the the Age of Rock & Roll, a group called Aerosmith wrote and performed a song called “Dream On”:
I confess that I am a child of the Rock & Roll era. I hit adolescence at the time Bill Haley and the Comets released Rock Around the […]
Posted May 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2019 A long time ago, a song writer named Jimmy Dorsey said:
Time was when we had fun On the school yard swings When we exchanged graduation rings One lovely yesterday Time was when we wrote Love letters in the sand Or lingered over our “coffee and”; Dreaming the time away Picnics and hay rides and […]
Posted April 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 April 2019 “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE
MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”
~ George Orwell in Animal Farm
Life changes when you know more because some things are more equal than other things. NLP changed my life from the inside out. Every day I […]
Posted April 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2019 Debra’s opening quotation is from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a novel in which the “pigs” get fat and prosperous and the “horses” are worked to death. In the novel, “pigs” and “horses” are metaphors for “capitalists” and “workers.” Animal Farm, an extended allegory, was written and published in 1946. In general, those were “dark days,” […]
Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 March 2019 Emoji and emoticons are available in serious, sensual, intelligent, ignorant, funny and factual themes. They are widely used in electronic messages and on web pages.
You can also create an expressive cartoon avatar, and then choose from a growing library of moods and stickers – featuring YOU!
Bitmoji is an app that allows you to […]
Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […]
Posted February 28, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 28 February 2019 A Sacred Story titled ‘Unseen Helping Hands’ was posted on February 7, 2015. Do you see them too? Rich opportunities are happening every day, experiences inviting greater trust in life.
On Tuesday, the woman who has hosted our peace meditation every Tuesday in her home for about 20 years wasn’t at meditation. She recently moved […]
Posted February 28, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 28 February 2019 The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” has been considered an ancient Chinese curse since Robert Kennedy popularized the saying. What makes times interesting? In general, conflict and anxiety. Most of us are familiar with the Biblical warning about wars and rumors of wars, and very few of us have had the luxury of […]
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