[dropcap]E[/dropcap]verything has sound. Everything. A lesson learned the summer after I nearly failed English over Tennyson’s poem, The Brook. My teacher challenged us to read the poem to ourselves. Euphony, my teacher professed, was the magic of the poem, and our final was to tell the class what we heard as we read it. I […]
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]magine that you have 1 million dollars to give to a worthy cause. It’s your money, you’ve earned it, saved for it, robbed someone… whatever…and now you have to pick some charity, person or place to give that money. How would you make that determination? Would you give it to the person who asked first? […]
The world can wait. Yep, I am talking to you. You have too much to do, so many people to please, so many deadlines to meet that you might as well be underwater. This is the point where you have to stop what you’re doing and get a little perspective. You, my friend, are one […]
[dropcap]In[/dropcap]2005, I worked the front desk of a hotel on Panama City Beach; a typical, thankless job with long hours and low pay. I toiled daily and believed, foolishly, that the brass would one day “promote” me. I imagined that I would be manager or something like it, where, salaried, I would finally wield the power to […]
So, the other day I had a thought: “If you no longer have a desire to go out on a limb, quit your job and go find a tree.” That thought has been vibrating in my head so much lately. I think we all have a belief that at some point in our lives we […]
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.” 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” […]