This is Thanksgiving week which means it is a special time of gratitude. Our whole country joins together in a spirit of appreciation this week. Every single minute today we have the opportunity to be grateful for even the tiniest of things. We can be grateful for the grass, the weather just as it is, the [...]
Mark Twain has a wonderful teaching for all of us. He says keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. So keep away from people who will diminish your dreams, your ambitions, or your ideas. [...]
The English author, Albert Beech, wrote wonderful music. When he was writing the English lyrics for a French song, he could hear the couple next door engaged in a verbal free-for-all. Hate words bounced through the thin walls and writing a love lyric seemed impossible. Distracted, Albert started to re-read Through the Looking Glass, the [...]
A friend of mine discovered that sometimes a song can provide a lot of insight. Once I was talking to a friend who was sharing with me how her day had been kind of tough and things had been difficult. She had a lot of stress around her work and all kinds of things going [...]