The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. ~ David Steindl-Rast
I wanted to do a Thanksgiving piece that would be good enough to express the depth of my gratitude for all your support and kindness over the last [...]
From the category archives:
Coaching Moments
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How often do you coach someone who’s come to you overwhelmed, stuck or overweight? Someone who’s spiritually sluggish, washed out and weary?
Chances are, you’ll have worked on [...]
(This is a Coaching Moments post from a few autumns ago. It’s still very timely; my son started high school a few weeks ago and my dad celebrates his 85th birthday this month. He had a heart attack a year after I wrote the post, and we’re both still doing the ‘life laundry’ every autumn.)
Life Laundry
Pegging [...]
All things and all men, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can only give it to them through the love that listens. ~Paul Tillich
The day I received it, I let out [...]
One of the things I like about leaving comments in other folks’ blogs is the way thoughts come bubbling unbidden to the surface and seem to express themselves spontaneously.
The same thing happens when I respond to the comments people leave in the boxes here. I found myself writing about my coaching background recently when I replied to [...]
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of compassion so we feel connected to all people and all situations. ~ Albert [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the importance of defining what success means to each of us. It reminded me of this piece, published in my Coaching Moments column a few years ago, when I was almost ready to sit the practical part of my coaching exam. Now that I’ve embarked on a new journey as a blogger and online writer, its [...]
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. ~ Veronique Vienne.
I stood at the kitchen sink, robotically washing dishes. I paused, my gaze landing on a hand-painted jug on the window ledge, raindrops running down the glass. I clung to the sink with [...]
As wordsmiths, we have the power to heal or hurt. As coaches or parents, we ought to know when to simply walk away and breathe deeply. I had a post lined up for today, but a silly marital argument with my husband yesterday left me drained and then determined to make the most of the [...]
