New problem same as the old problem is a complex issue. From Pete Townsend’s lyrics “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, and no doubt a lot earlier, it’s an issue that is part of the human condition. The same problem keeps showing…
Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, through your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself – Glennon Doyle, Untamed This…
I believe that when our loved ones pass, we take them inside us, so that they continue to be there when we want to connect with them, and when we need to connect with them. This can be both good and not so good. Good…
A well-known psychologist, Gordon Wheeler, maintains that we are natural meaning-makers. It’s in our nature to make meaning of everything we encounter. As he puts it “We cannot NOT do this.” We can’t help ourselves. Making meaning, for us, is essential to who we are.…
I remember learning of the ‘cottage industry’ that existed before the Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century. I was taught that it was a dark time, where the entire family would slave morning to evening, every day…. That children were being used as cheap…
If there’s one thing that never changes, it’s change itself – everything changes, all the time. I may be alone this, but I tend to cling to what I have – even clothes that are so old and full of mending I wouldn’t give them…
