Glen James has been added to my list of superheros. Right up there with Superman and Batman. A homeless man, he turned over a back pack with $41,000 of cash to the police without taking a penny. He has values and integrity, and his faith says that it would have been theft to take anything …
Hump Day Nudge: Kindness lights up
I went away this past weekend, and stayed with a friend’s sister. I met B once briefly, for about 5 minutes…and I was invited to stay at her home for 4 days. She had bright yellow flowers in the room where I stayed. A home made quilt on the bed, fresh towels on the rack. …
Hump Day Nudge: Mindfulness
Time is precious, isn’t it? Life is precious and I want to grab and squeeze the moments that surprise and delight me…I want to be mindful of the amount of time I spend watching other people live their lives on Facebook while I avoid living mine…I want to look for moments of beauty and humour …
Hump Day Nudge: Playful attunement
I love being a witness to human connection…this intricate interplay that is a dance of people attuning to another. Without even trying, we pick up on signals from others all the time and respond to them…again without conscious effort. Things happen without explanation…the explanation isn’t needed, because the relationship just makes obvious what happens next. …
Hump Day Nudge: New Life
I’m a mush-ball when it comes to babies. Babies of all kinds. So when I saw this clip of all these little turtles being born, I just gazed in fascination. How did they all know which direction to go? How, after being in eggs independently, were they ready to hatch within just minutes of each …
Hump Day Nudge: Step away from those screens
This is cute, in a “ohmigosh, I hope that’s not me, but it hits too close to home” kinda way: I was prepping last night for an interview with Dahlia Kurtz. It was this afternoon on CJOB on her new afternoon show that started just yesterday. The topic was boredom at work and how boredom …
Hump Day Nudge: Creating Good Memories
I was out of town this week at Oprah’s Lifeclass with Brené Brown…and with Wednesday’s Hump Nudge coming up…well, Melanie nudged me about what to post…and I loved her suggestion. Fred just lost the love of his life…they were together 75 years. Wow. He wrote a song…except he’s not musical, and so he only created …
Hump Day Nudge: Meditative Gratitude
I just got back from vacation…and the time to step away gave me fresh perspective and new energy. The space to relax and breath. It was good. Getting away for days at at time generally isn’t practical…”getting away”, though, is still important. Sometimes even 5 minutes of a “getaway” canmake a difference. Brother David …
Hump Day Nudge: A heart to heart with a heart surgeon
I love this video done by Soul Pancake and the Oprah Winfrey network that interviews Dr. Kathy Magliato, a heart surgeon. For someone who likes biology, it’s interesting. For someone like myself who works does a different sort of work with hearts, day after day, it’s truly profound. Two moments stopped me cold: The first: …
Hump Day Nudge: Musical Lift
There is something about tight harmonies and beautiful rhythms that does my heart good…it stirs something deep inside me to hear beautiful music. And when folks are having fun doing it…the added dimension of laughing joy…well it can change the tone of my day. The rhythm of music becomes the beat of productive work. The …