Epiphany to Easter Sculpting Project 2: Stop Here: Week 1 It’s late afternoon when I sit down on our couch to ‘stop time’. Out my windows the sky is solid soft gray and the ground is bright white with snow. Finch are pecking at the feeder seeds on the porch. After a few seconds I…
Epiphany to Easter Sculpting project 1: Three things I Love: Week 2
Epiphany to Easter Sculpting Project 1: Three things I Love: Week 2 A few more steps and I reach the top of Black Bear pass. I turn around and discover the view before me. I am awestruck. Range after range of blue and gray mountain peaks. My watch and the incoming clouds tell me I…
An Invitation
Claire’s home for Christmas. We are together in our unfinished Great Room discussing life while Claire is sewing an Edwardian Cape and I am insulating . We are comparing notes about what’s important to us and we discover that we both currently have a passion to help others thrive. I’ve got the tools that I…
Epiphany to Easter Sculpting Project 1: Three Things I Love
Swoosh, Swoosh. My Christmas snow shoes move with ease on the snow. Their cleats grip the snow so I can walk sure-footed straight up the hill. I love my new snow shoes. That’s #1 for today. I look down and see #2. The sun is reflecting on individual flakes of snow showing intricate details….
Pursuing Growth: Project 2: Chocolate Factory: Week 2
Pursuing Growth: Sculpting Project 2: Chocolate Factory: Week 2 I walk by my kitchen sink and see the reminder note: SMILE. I now automatically smile for a moment. I note that I feel a bit happier. This is completely consistent with lots of psychological studies. Here are a few findings: Subjects are given a pencil…
Pursuing Growth: Project 2 : Chocolate Factory Week 1
Pursuing Growth: Project 2 : Chocolate Factory Week 1 Smile facts: One smile creates the same amount of brain stimulation as 2000 bars of chocolate. Smiling changes our hormone composition from hormones associated with unpleasant stress to hormones associated with confident happiness. Two muscle groups are used to smile. The mouth smile uses the Zygomatic…