Sigh. I soooo wish the above statement wasn’t true. I wish people didn’t have to go through difficult and challenging and painful times to grow. I wish it could all come easy. But it doesn’t. When I think back to the moments in my life of which I feel were the richest, the experiences that …
Hump Day Nudge: Staying
I read this story last week, and was moved on multiple levels. Lisa M. Fenn is a producer with ESPN, a sports network…and she clearly and unabashedly crossed the neutral line of journalism and got in deep with the folks of one of her stories. She smashed the neutralism of journalism and stayed with a …
Hump Day Nudge: Honoring a Memory with Lavish Joy
Aaron Collins was a guy who had a quirky sense of humour and fun. He’s dead now…died last summer. He was all about experiences, not possessions, and so when he died, he asked that any money he had would be shared freely with folks who could be impacted by it. His family went for pizza …
Hump Day Nudge: A Lil Good News
Today is Wednesday of a short week…is it Hump Day already? Yep…and I’m loving that. Some of you may feel like it’s been a long week already…some have heavy hearts…some have triggers of sadness in July… …some might just need to borrow a smile from another for a little break today. Take a peek at …
Hump Day Nudge: Joy can be quirky
I can identify with this video on some days…I start out ambitious to pull of something pretty special and joyous that will delight the folks I love…and then it starts to go sideways. Not that long ago, one of the junior tribe members brought over someone for me to meet…and I wanted it to …
Hump Day Nudge: Sticking Together–Literally
There is very little that is of more value in this world than friends. Folks who don’t have to be with you, like family does. Folks who choose to be with you… …even after, and sometimes especially after, they get to know you. Folks who love you enough to: laugh with you until milk …
Hump Day Nudge: Nature’s beauty
It’s Tuesday night. Hump Day is tomorrow. Yesterday was a stressful, conflicted, yammering, kind of day around our house, with seemingly everyone bagging on each other, not enough time, and the pressures of the world crowding in around us…the tones were tense, and it required effort to not go off on each other. We pulled …
Hump Day Nudge: Someone isn’t listening
We all need to poke fun at ourselves sometimes, to laugh at ourselves in a gentle way that highlights truth in a humorous way…not to humiliate or shame ourselves, but just to invite ourselves to see things from a different angle. Hey girlfriend, if you’ve got a spouse or a male co-worker nearby who needs …
Hump Day Nudge: Living and loving while dying
Around Christmas time several months ago, I remember stumbling across a beautiful song…gentle, lyrical, and beautiful, called Clouds, written by Zach Sobiech. I remember being touched by the song, and listening to it several times: The song was written by the 17 year old as a response to his mother who asked him to …
Hump Day Nudge: Furry Love
I’m not what most would call a crazy, passionate animal lover. But… last night, I followed a three year old around for most of an evening on a beautiful spring day as we gently tiptoed behind a rabbit to see how close he would let us get…up and over and around three different yards, …