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What’s Your Fence?

His name is Cooper. He is a young, energetic Golden Retriever who arrived next door with the folks that moved in last summer. It didn’t take Cooper long to find a hole in the fence surrounding the back yard, through which he escaped to taste freedom for a few hours before he was coaxed back […]

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Who Moved My Cheese?

Who moved my cheese?  is a neat little  book about  two mice, Sniff and Scum and two other beings, Hem and Haw in a labyrinth in search of cheese. And the title comes from what they all say when the cheese they had goes missing.  It is a fable about adapting or not to change. […]

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Trapeze Work

Life is a continuing series of transitions, some mark advancing years all beginning with our transition from womb to world, then onto childhood, to adolescence, to young adult life, middle age, to eldership and finally death. Other shifts come with leaving the family of origin, changing careers, health issues, relocating to a new community, faith […]

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Where Have You Been?

A close friend has just made a major life shift, one that is more than a job change or career revision. It was a deep transformation that yanked him out of an old way of being and into a totally new and powerful place. I will call him AJ. For much of his life AJ […]

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Getting Real

My stomach is churning. My fists are clenched, ready to do some serious damage to whom…..I am not sure. This nauseating and dangerous condition is spawned and fueled by the open conflict of selfish interest in Washington, positions taken primarily to guarantee re-election without consideration for the broader population.  I am both entertained and revolted […]

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Who Are You, Really?

In Alice Through the Looking Glass the caterpillar asks Alice: “Who Are You?! A little more than a decade ago my good friend, Steve, asked me: “George, what is your essence?” He was my caterpillar! I had been beating myself up for losing a really good job, the result of a huge misunderstanding with my […]

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