we can artificially change negative to positive
Regardless of why self-esteem matters, millions of us suffer from feeling like dirt and feeling like we don’t count. It seems as if we learn to perpetuate negativity. Emmett Fox was a New Thought spiritual leader of the last century who started a church in New York City called Divine Science during the depression and he came up with a recipe to reduce negativity. Continue reading “Recipe to raise negativity” »
we are stardust
“How are you today?”
Easy to ask, but hard to answer. It depends upon who’s asking, and how far we want to go with someone else. I’ve lived with extreme depression on a personal level and with my relatives. Self-medicating is one way to ease the pain. It’s not a great solution, but research shows most people turn to self-medicating first. Continue reading “Is it going?” »
the purple hour
Light and dark are associated with good and evil, happy and sad, joy and despair, purity and pollution. Clear day, dark and stormy night have billions of tints and shades along the spectrum. Continue reading “natural sight” »
many elder Asians walked around
Dream of meeting Tommy with a group of Asian elders on a street after fifty years and he scolds me for not being careful
Ever since I read “Directing Your Destiny: How to Become the Writer, Producer, and Director of Your Dreams” by Jennifer Grace, I’ve taken her suggestion and I title my dreams. Including the main action of the dream in the title helps categorize them, allowing for easy retrieval when we look for dream patterns. Continue reading “working a dream” »
everybody looked like Hitler in WWI
Personal boundaries seem to be rooted in perception. I see things from my point of view, which seems true and final. Like everybody else, I’m limited and get caught up thinking I know best about what’s going on. I tend to forget there are infinite ways to see the world, and nobody knows everything.
Continue reading “taking a chance on letting people know me” »
Whoops, I let you see the real me
“Good fences make good neighbors,” according to Robert Frost in his poem Mending Wall.
“There where it is we do not need the wall:
…He is all pine and I am apple orchard.” Continue reading “inner circle” »
creativity is not editing
After my junior year of college, I left Southern Oregon College, now Southern Oregon University, and transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene for a larger college experience . Continue reading “who judges perspectives?” »
I’m here and want to live
“Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there,” said novelist Thomas Berger last century. I haven’t invented anything new, but have spent my life combining what others have created to form my own style. Continue reading “artist or no?” »
looking at him makes me laugh
Life can be funny without trying to be funny. My Chihuahua, Pip, has been surviving a serious eye problem, which requires drops and oral pain medication several times a day. He’s wearing what my friend calls, ‘the cone of shame,’ a blue headdress tied with a bow, intended to keep him from rubbing his eye. It’s sad to see him in that, but it’s funny too, which made me consider the benefits of humor. Continue reading “Pip’s gauntlet” »
not everything has to be a battle
Someone told me that roots of communication obstacles came from our families of origin. I agree that environment plays a gigantic role in how people communicate. It’s also possible to retrain ourselves to expand positive communication. Sometimes it’s just about silence. Continue reading “right or happy?” »