I watched a movie last night, East of Eden, that largely dealt with the idea of people being either good or bad. I’m sure it was partly the time period but it struck me as amusing, childish, and sad that the characters seemed to have such black and white ideas of goodness
Keep Reading ... →I read a quote by Deepak Chopra today of wisdom he had heard from Nelson Mandela: “Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.” A truthful thought, a seemingly obvious thought, one I’ve heard in many ways many times before, but one I so often
Keep Reading ... →. . . although it may be difficult. I remember back in my teen angst years when I spent hours and hours . . . and hours alone in my room writing. Now some of this was ridiculously horrible, angst infused poetry but some of it wasn’t. Some of it
Keep Reading ... →We all have our fears. Those things that make us squirm or quiver, act in irrational ways, or that cripple us. Some of those fears are very valid and understandable – the fear of death for example. Even if that’s not a fear of yours you probably would never scoff
Keep Reading ... →Over the past several years I’ve been hearing a lot about the law of attraction…I imagine you have too. And I’ve got to say, I’m skeptical of it. Extremely skeptical. I mean sure – it’s a great concept, I’d like it to be true, I’d like to believe it’s true. But at
Keep Reading ... →Prompted again by some readings in Peck‘s book I was thinking this morning about perspective and worldviews. In general our worldview probably lines up quite a bit with the dominant views of the culture we grew up in. A person from New Delhi is most likely going to have a worldview
Keep Reading ... →My past five days have been incredibly busy. I’ve had my twelve year old niece visiting and, as this is the first time she’s ever come solo for a visit with me, I wanted to make sure she had the chance to have loads of fun and experience what Halifax
Keep Reading ... →Several weeks ago I was at the airport waiting to board a flight I should have boarded 20 minutes earlier. I started people watching. I noticed a young girl, probably about three years old, happily playing with a number of children also waiting to board. The staff started calling families,
Keep Reading ... →Today was one of those days when my body decided to be my enemy and leave me in some pretty excruciating pain. To add to it, a call from the doctor’s office revealed that, although not life threatening, they found the reason for my pain and wanted me to come
Keep Reading ... →I was walking home from an appointment this afternoon when I decided to walk through the Public Gardens (a beautiful fenced in garden in downtown Halifax) and spend a few minutes soaking in some sun and reading Wizard’s First Rule, the book I was talking about in yesterday’s post. When the alarm went
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