Withdrawing my nomination I have been thinking a lot about mothering recently. Actually, I’ve been thinking about my role as a mother. I have been coming face to face with some of my defensive soldiers/insecurities lately; not the least…
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Judgment
I often find myself in what some consider to be strange places. “Strange” as in places they’ve never heard of before. The truth is I have often never heard of the places I visit either until I find myself…
One of the blessings I cherish most in my life is having the ability to observe nature unimpeded by the constraints of time. The similarities between human behavior and those of flora and fauna are many and I suppose…
The greater-racket tailed drongo sits on a crisscross of what were once-upon-a-time most likely painstakingly placed electrical wires. I say painstakingly because I’ve had the honor of observing Thai and Burmese laborers working with Zen-like focus on almost a…
Fear is the great equalizer. The indiscriminate disease of fear can strike any economic group, race, gender or age. Fear blinds us to the real issues at hand and seeks to subversively bind us to that which it has…
The concept of not living up to one’s potential is the malignant foundation of a lifelong, self-destructive, cancer-like belief structure. This terminal theory has probably broken more spirits and relationships than any other in modern-day society. We start the…
Some people mistake kindness for weakness; this miscalculation can be a deadly fallacy in the animal kingdom. Why have we been conditioned to look upon those who are kind, compassionate and vulnerable as weak? It could not be further…
I originally wrote this on November 15, 2015, the day after there had been a terrorist attack in Paris. There have been other similar attacks in France and elsewhere in the world since the time I originally wrote this and…
The arrogance of man, Ignorance combined with entitlement – This is our downfall. The ancient Greeks called it hubris; Excessive pride Which clouds vision And creates a veil that blurs Common sense. Conditioned to believe in our own superiority…
It was an exceptionally dark night in the jungle. It was the rainy season and although there were a million stars in the sky, nary a one could be seen from the forest floor on account of the dense…
You want me to be more like you? You want to fix my behavior and my thoughts too? Just a few minor adjustments are all that I need. To fit the image of what you want me to be.…