It is that time of year again: the holidays. I do my best to enjoy the time and the various activities involved in ending up the year. Most of what I do is not traditional, but that is fine with me. I do the things I enjoy and eat what I like and do not worry about the rest of it all including expectations and norms.
… A Johns Hopkins study found giving just 40 seconds of compassion can lower another person’s anxiety in a measurable way.
A University of Toronto study found, in everyday life (e.g., the workplace) we have, on average, nine unique opportunities for compassion every day.
Here is to all the women who got labeled, laughed out loud, and kept on going. Keep doing it. Be you. Keep doing you.
“The greatest of these is love.” Been thinking a lot lately of one of my favorite chapters in the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13. Such amazing wisdom in these few words! I have always drawn great comfort and encouragement from every word. Most recently, though, is the last two sentences in the chapter I have been turning over in my mind: “(13). And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. (14.) But the greatest of these is love.” I have…
Do not be afraid to set boundaries and defend them. Do what you need to keep yourself sane. Only the people who you are better off not having in your life will try to argue against this wisdom.
I am a big fan of the online and TV shopping enterprise QVC, and one of the hosts, Carolyn Gracie, said something on a show which really resonated with me. This summer I was watching a show where she was selling clothing for women, including (it being summer) several tops without sleeves, and she was busy showing them off, chatting all the while. She is business as usual, moving the clothing around on rack, talking about the colors, the fabrics,…
I have to admit there have been times in the last few years (talking about my life during these past few years of COVID) when I contemplated scenes from second half the 1997 blockbuster movie Titanic. Specifically, I mean the scenes where the ship musicians just play on while people are trying to get off the ship, and the situation is dire. For some, these scenes would seem idiotic. I mean, really, playing music with death and destruction all around?…