Tuesday Truth. Number 61. It's been a while! I hope that you all are doing well. Life just keeps chugging along. We are in the middle of a heatwave here in Roanoke, Virginia. It makes me wonder how I spent so much of my life as a Floridian. Over the 4th of July, the hubby [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 60. We can all change the world. It doesn't have to be done in leaps and bounds. Small steps taken regularly lead to great change. As Anne Frank says, we don't need to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. So go out there (socially distanced, of course) and [...]
Choices. We all have them. Don't we? Some big. Some small. And all those in-between. I could have come here today and shared my monthly reads from May. That was my planned topic of conversation for the first week of June. And yet, it feels wrong to not acknowledge the atrocity of a stolen life. [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 59. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Would you agree? I have heard it said time and time again that one of the commonalities found in all humans is that they have a desire to be seen and heard. A validation that they exist. That they matter. They want [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 58. Last week I shared 22 Quotes on Hope to help you through stressful times. I thought that I'd continue with that theme for this week's Tuesday Truth with a little bit of wisdom courtesy of Star Wars. This is a worldwide journey through the night. We are all experiencing an existence [...]
22 Quotes on Hope to Help You Through Stressful Times. Currently, as a world, we are collectively going through stressful times. And individually we all go through our own periods of stressful times and have our own stressors. But there is always hope. Of the definitions of hope, my favorite is when it is used [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 57. Given the levels of fear throughout the world as COVID-19 continues its spread, reaching the official level of a pandemic, I thought that today's truth would be appropriate. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 56. Connection. Humans are social creatures. I'm currently reading Hivemind by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, PhD because I love almost all things studying "why we behave the way we do". And while there are many dimensions to the book, I just wanted to share this part from the inside flap: Humans have always [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 55. Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. -Winnie the Pooh Just let those words sink in for a moment. Doing Nothing. Does that make your stomach knot up as you think of all the things on [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 54. Tomorrow will begin the New Year. 2020. An entirely new decade! Like many other people, I'm spending some time doing a year-end review. I think we often forget all the things that we actually accomplished in a year and it's helpful to spend some time reflecting. This year I'm doing a [...]
