I celebrated my 55th birthday almost a week ago on April 5th. The day before, I had a conversation with two friends who had both been working on their “stories”—crafting personal messages related to major turning points or experiences in their lives. Last week I also read a blog post written by my colleague Shelley […]
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During a telephone conversation some years ago, friend of mine asked me, “Are you enjoying your new house?” She knew we had purchased a 25-year-old home in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California and our back yard consisted of a fabulous Redwood grove. The house had a two-story western-facing wall consisting of floor to
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The sky here in Northern California is clear and bright. Tonight, August 31, 2012, I’ll be able to see the blue moon. When two full moons occur in any calendar month, the second is called a blue moon. The term (in its modern usage) has nothing to do with the moon’s color. A blue moon
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I happened to come across this post, thanks to a colleague of mine who also wrote about it, written by JessicaRedfield, one of the victims in the Aurora, CO, theater shooting. She not only narrowly missed being killed during a mall shooting just over a month before she was shot but continued to harbor a
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Many of us get stuck in the past. By that I mean we end up living our life looking backward at things that happened in our lives and regretting them. Some call this “looking in the rear view mirror.” I call it living life looking backward. Here’s the thing: No matter what bad thing happened
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Have you ever wondered why more people have a fear of public speaking than of dying? The reason is simple. They don’t want to be in the position Christina Aguilera found herself in yesterday as she sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl. In front of millions of people she messed up part of
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Yesterday many Jews observed Holocaust Memorial Day. Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, literally the “Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism,” is celebrated on the 27th day in the month of Nisan, a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers). It marks the
Do you believe things happen for a reason? I do. More often than not, when something happens in my life, it isn’t long before I can see why. And when I undertand the reason why something happened – whether that “something” was good or bad – I get a sense that God has a hand
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Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland found a message in a bottle written by seven former prisoners and buried in a cement wall.These men left a simple message written in pencil: Just their names, the numbers that had been tattooed on their arms, and their home towns in Poland
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The Torah portions we read the past two weeks, Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) and Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26), offer us a chance to look at our own lives over the past year and to consider how past events during the last 12 months have gotten us to the place we now stand. It also helps us to look forward
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After five weeks of my son’s unexplained illness, two hospital stays, a zillion blood tests, one MRI, two ultrasounds (and one more on Monday), one echocardiogram, one EKG, a dose of IVIG, three X-rays, and two many examinations to count by numerous doctors, my sons STILL UNEXPLAINED illness seems to be disappearing as mysteriously as
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I’m a big believer in visioning, or visualizing what we want to create in the future. I guess you’d call this foresight. I’ve noticed however, that my foresight tends to be perfect. In fact, you could say that when I see the future, I have better-than-20-20 vision. Yet, I’m well aware of the common adage
If Hindsight is 20-20, What’s Foresight? Read More »
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