A New Year’s Resolution We have a cabin on a lake in NW Wisconsin. For the past twenty years, I’ve battled to keep the outside out. It seems mice find interior warmth alluring, and they are ingenious at having their way. Each year, I search out and seal ports of entry, but the mice always … Continue reading “A New Year’s Resolution”

In grade school, at the beginning of each day, our teacher would take attendance. After we took our seats, she would open her attendance book and call out each student’s name in alphabetical order. When we heard our name, we answered, “Here!” Since that time, I’ve discovered that loved ones don’t have to be “Here” … Continue reading “Spirit Running Wild”

The other day, a former colleague asked if I believe in God. A few years ago, I might have had a quick answer. But, the older I get, the more I’m discovering that I don’t know as much as I once thought. As a consequence, I’m finding, questions often invite more questions. So, I asked … Continue reading “What If God Is A Verb?”

Recently, I was looking at family pictures using the Photos app on my MacBook. The app has a useful feature of finding photographs of individuals once they are tagged. Looking at a picture of our new granddaughter, Adalyn, I tagged her to quickly find her photos in the future. When I did this, the app … Continue reading “This Person Is Now Called Adalyn”

Social isolation has made this a challenging year. Connections are fundamental to our well-being. I have been writing about the importance of maintaining balance in life, suggesting that the development of spirit, along with mind and body, is critical to a life well-lived. Developing spirit is about growing our capacity to experience connectivity with life. … Continue reading “The Search For Union”

Recently, I was listening to a Gillian Welch song from the “The Harrow and the Harvest” album, and the following lyric caught my attention: “You know some girls are as bright as the morning, and some girls are blessed, with a dark turn of mind…” Maybe you’ve noticed this also. Some people are happy, no … Continue reading “Spirit Part 2, The Symphony of Life”

Balance is fundamental to a healthy life. When we are off-balance, emotional or physical dis-ease eventually follows. Efforts made to achieve and maintain balance are richly rewarded. A life well-lived is built of such routines. Our life is comprised of three elements, mind, body, and spirit. These elements, like the legs of a tripod, support … Continue reading “Spirit Part 1: Spirit In Action”

Most everyone agrees that life-balance is a worthy goal, but making progress is difficult. Before retirement, I had the type of job where a visit to the restroom made me late for my next meeting. Perhaps you can relate! The common excuse for not exercising or doing other things to achieve life balance is, “I … Continue reading “Big Rocks”

Breathe in.., breath out; we do it about twenty-thousand times per day, without thinking. Were it to stop, we would be unconscious in two minutes and dead in ten. It’s obviously important. Life is fueled by exchanges; breath, food, water, and innumerable others. These exchanges manage the flow of energy in the body. Theoretical physicist, … Continue reading “Energy In Motion”

In my last post I wrote about the importance of balancing mind-body-spirit (MBS) to achieve well-being. Nature provides a good example of the importance of balance. I confess to being a data nerd. My family will attest to that. When we bought our lake cabin back in 1999 I took a blank journal and marked … Continue reading “A Question of Balance”