Posted April 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Nominalizations' Negative Impact

This winter I have been most entertained by the official state bird of Florida: the mockingbird.

Florida designated the mockingbird as the official state bird in 1927, and the northern mockingbird is also the state bird of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.

The first memory I have of mockingbird comes from an encounter at […]

Posted March 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Frozen Chosen

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors.

All of them are alive in this moment. …

You are a continuation of each of these people.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Anne Lamott was one of the speakers in the Mystics […]

Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Hope and Resiliency

Nine-year-old Michaela Munyan, is CEO and sole seamstress of an unincorporated operation. Michaela had learned to sew hair scrunchies in an after-school program, so when her school was shut down because of the coronavirus, she did something constructive. She found a pattern and made a mask. Then she found a YouTube video about batch sewing […]

Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News

The Only Way to Go

Life moves in only one direction: forward. There’s no going back, and there are no “do-overs.” That’s why we need to do the best we can with everything we do all the time. A long time ago, the Steve Miller Band said, “Time keeps on slippin’ into the future”:

Time is, in fact, […]

Posted October 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Disappointment

Richard Bandler is famous for a lot of sayings. One that has always stuck with me is how disappointment requires adequate preplanning.

We often have conflicting desires. Some desires are known in consciousness, but many are not, and some are downright contradictory.

What is even more of a surprise, is how we may […]

Posted January 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Communication Preferences

Everyone—you, me, and everyone we know–has a communication preference. The three basic categories are visual (things seen), auditory (things heard), and kinesthetic (things felt). Most everyone does all three, of course, and the three main forms typically overlap. If you see a word in print, for example, you might also “hear” the word in your […]

Posted October 31, 2017 in Monthly News

Addiction to Being Right and Universal Recovery

In 1991, Edward de Bono published a book that seems to fit the tenor of current times: I Am Right, You Are Wrong. We (humans and probably all mammals) become addicted to patterns of thought. When patterns produce desired results, they are reinforced, making it more likely we will repeat the pattern, which reinforces it—making […]

Posted September 30, 2017 in Monthly News

The Stories We Tell

You were born into a certain family, of a certain socioeconomic structure, in a certain country, with a destiny of that country, of that family, of those parents. You are fated. Already your fate casts you into a certain situation. Edgar Cayce says your soul knew that and your soul was involved in accepting that.

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