No ordinary life
Everyone has dozens of stories, large and small, happy and sad, funny and painful, that shouldn’t be lost because you think your life is ordinary. It is not. Your stories will bring alive times past...
View ArticleMillions leave a legacy
Be sure to check “About.” It will make this blog make sense–or at least more sense. No one can predict the future. All we can do is choose our contribution to the circumstances which help shape...
View ArticlePush off from shore
Do not fear to step into the unknown. For where there is risk, there is also reward. Lori Ward Last night we attended a retirement party for a much-loved minister and his wife of many years. There were...
View ArticleChild’s play
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus One evening recently I had been engrossed in a book. When it was time to go to bed, I turned on the yard...
View ArticleAunt Jim’s legacy
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe,an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves...
View ArticleThe art of brainstorming: Part one
Photo by Gogler John The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way Listing If we write personal history only using only what is in our...
View ArticleThe art of brainstorming: Part two
Here is another technique to help you access the imaginative, creative, and unconscious part of your mind, to discover deeper memories and information for your personal history. (Today’s post was...
View ArticleLiving by the mainspring
P-38 aircraft I had planned to finish the brainstorming series for this post. But reading the Rocky Mountain News this morning, I found two poignant stories, each about a man’s life being changed by...
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