Today I want to talk about an idea that I came across while listening to The Happiness Lab Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos. The idea is a simple one: Find one thing each day that delights you. The “Rules” are equally simple: If it delights you, it counts. There’s no sliding scale. There is no …
I am an Autumn person. No, I’m not one of Ray Bradbury’s Autumn People from “Something Wicked This Way Comes”=…” Though how good was Jonathon Pryce as Mr. Dark? Go ahead, watch it. I found it both frightening and challenging, I found it frightening, because it would be *so* easy to fall into the rut …
This week – and it’s not just me that’s been feeling this – has been a bit of a slog. I don’t remember much about the past week. It seemed like one day blended into another and all the weight of time felt like it was growing as the week progressed. The one thing I …
This is a post about time… On second thought, while time is a major part of it, ultimately this is a post about a particular lie that I tell myself. “I don’t have time to write.” What I usually mean when I think this to myself is that I don’t have the amount of time …
As you might recall from my last Five-Thing Thursday post, earlier this week, we broke down under the heat and humidity typical for a Michigan summer and turned on the AC. Promptly there was a massive storm that knocked out the power Thursday Morning. As I am composing this late on a Saturday night, it …
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for me, here at the Forge. You may hove noticed that I’ve missed a post here and there. Thanks for sticking with me. It all started one morning with that nightmare scenario where you hit the power button on your trusty laptop…and nothing happens. It’s an exquisite kind …
I do one of these posts every week. Ok, maybe not *Every* week, as I seem to recall actually missing one, but that ties into this post perfectly. Normally, I like to get these posts up early in the day. But today didn’t have that on the agenda. And, as it got later and later, …
As Luck would have it, today’s post falls on what (in the US) is a national holiday. And here I am, standing on the edge of a long and slippery slope. I’m not going to get into any of the work we still need to do, not only as a country, but as a society, …
I ran across this idea from a Twitter post from Alethia Kontis and it’s all about showing gratitude toward your past self. That’s right: actually realizing when Past You has done Present You a solid and thanking them for it. No this post isn’t about Time Travel – although that would be pretty cool, initially. …
On Monday afternoon, I had a follow-up visit with my doctor and it looks like I’m out of the woods. Thanks for all of your kind thoughts and well-wishes. Now I’m focusing on healing and working my way “Back to Normal.” But what does that mean, exactly? Three weeks ago, “Normal” meant walking around tenderly. …