cards or deck

cards or deck

These are the cards that life dealt me is how we put it when we things don’t fall our way and that is most certainly true, but feels incomplete. Yes, life deals us particular cards, but who says we don’t have the freedom to pursue the rest of the deck? That is how we...

Pawn to E4

  I am not the autumn moon, Chris Cornell sang in I am the Highway, I am the night. The night, not the moon. The highway, not the rolling wheels. But what are you? The autumn moon or the infinite night? The one seems stuck in a gravitational orbit that pins her...

the problem with the future

  We think we know who we are, but we don’t. We also have the creepy ability to rewrite our own history to suit our desires. But the future. The glorious future is what causes us some real concerns. Dr. Daniel Gilbert wrote Stumbling on Happiness. It is a funny...

a small fuss about the in between

  Our experience of living is like water, cupped in palm of our hand.  The more you try in desperation to hold onto it, the more it slips between your fingers.  Luckily, there is plenty more just below your waist.  It will never be the water...

take life as it comes

  Too many times, our own expectations subvert the very task we set out to achieve.  It doesn’t start out like that, of course, but it inevitably always sways in that direction.  Our expectations impact our resolve.  If left unchecked, our...