The Language of Possibility

We all have a voice in our head that tells us what to do. It has just one purpose: ensuring our survival. It constantly monitors every experience, looking for threats even when there are none. It applies (what it believes to be successful) old strategies to present-day situations—often inappropriately. When it does so, it keeps

25 Jul, 2013
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Why I Love Painting

I never thought of myself as a writer or an artist until I was in my 40s. It never occurred to me I had a talent for either. But I did know that I felt like there was a void in my life – a vacuum, an internal pain. By my mid-40s I knew that

18 Jul, 2013
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POSSIBILITY—Part II

How we think about life—how we “hold” life in our minds—tells our inner GPS where we want to go, what we want to do. If our minds—our mental machinery—think something’s doable, we have a good shot at accomplishing it, and if our machinery thinks it’s probably unattainable, we probably won’t attain it. The trick is

16 Jul, 2013
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WHY I LOVE MY DOGS

I’ve always loved dogs. I had a couple of puppies when I was a kid, but they didn’t last long around the house, and it always ended in mystery because my parents never explained what happened to them. At 24, I got my first dog as a grown-up to complete the “wife, house and dog”

11 Jul, 2013
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POSSIBILITY

Lately I’ve been thinking about possibility. We’re so used to the word that we take it for granted, but for me, possibility isn’t just a word; it’s a concept, a philosophy, a way of life—and it’s something I had to learn and that I still have to be mindful of in order to make sure

9 Jul, 2013
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