Rose bushes that are scraggly, need pruning, are struggling to stay alive and are infrequently watered make me sad. There’s a stretch on my drive home that has a ton of them planted in the tiniest openings in the sidewalk. It’s like someone ran out of concrete every few feet and wanted to make sense […]
I saw a Facebook comment someone had posted about a news story. The individual meant to say that someone had “the right of way,” but, for whatever reason, it came out, “the write away.” Maybe it was a typo that turned into an autocorrect fail, or maybe the person really thought that’s what the phrase […]
We see the potential in a lot of things — potential that tells us something is worthy of our time. Worthy of our investment. An old car we want to restore. An old house that needs some TLC to graduate from fixer-upper to the space of our dreams. A struggling business that we want to […]
When it comes to possibly stepping outside of my comfort zone, I can be pretty swift about passing up such an opportunity. After all, why change comfy? The interesting part is that I clearly realize that there is, in fact, opportunity in switching things up. And yet I shy away from it. During those rare […]
Five weeks ago, I adopted a rescue for my other adopted rescue. The first needed a buddy, so a buddy I set out to find. I got the first from my vet, and rescue #2 ended up coming from the same place. They’d been neighbors and would paw at each other playfully during their five […]
One of the most interesting things about this world that we all share is tomorrow. Tomorrow. It means a clean start full of fresh offerings, radiant hope and exciting potential. Tomorrow. It asks that we all hang in there so that we can give it a chance and see what it delivers. Tomorrow is never […]
Have you ever seen something, met someone or been in a situation that suddenly seemed to make sense of your life? Occasionally you pause and really think about it — your existence, that is. Its twists and turns seem nonsensical. Its ups and downs feel more exhausting than educational. Its challenges seem anything but character-building. […]
I wasn’t sure if he’d been struck or not, but his appearance certainly struck me. A man was face down on the concrete, his body contorted in such a way that told me his position wasn’t intentional. It looked like he simply crumbled — his body was in a heap. Nobody had pulled over to […]
There’s a lot to be said for speaking your mind. There’s even more to be said for speaking it in a tactful manner. A lot of people these days are praised for running their mouths. For being crass. For being the type of “blunt” that isn’t productive. For telling secrets that aren’t theirs. They get […]
Preparation is like a sneaky weasel. Entertain it when you have a free moment — give it some attention here and there — and things generally maintain their order. Ignore it and it’ll catch you off guard…each and every time. Preparation is the thing which tells us that if we’re up before our alarm goes […]
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