“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise” H.G. Wells puts sobriety and wisdom into a simple context that applies to all humanity, not just recovering boozeh...

“If you can laugh together, you can WORK together”. Robert Orben reminds us that a happy heart is the key to true success in whatever we are WORKING on. Our WORK ethic in life reflects our relationshi...

Why not make somebody happier today simply by MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS? It is challenging when we are confronted with tolerating personality traits we find distasteful in others to remember to look f...

To be described as natural and innocent in speech and/or behaviour because we are young or inexperienced is what we also call being NAÏVE. Too many of us have used the word NAÏVE as an insult towards ...

REMINDING ourselves to remember to listen to and honour our innate truth is an art that does not come easily for some of us in our noisy, busy, everyday lives. Instant gratification can seem more effi...

“Love is an irresistible DESIRE to be irresistibly DESIRED.” Robert Frost advises. Heartfelt DESIRE grows deeper, more personal and privately beautiful as we mature. Our deepest DESIRES are actually b...

“We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence, then is not an act, but a HABIT” …..   Aristotle I got to thinking during the sacred hours of dawn that I love so much, how our HABITS, y...

People, places and things are unable to give us any iron clad GUARANTEE that will last a lifetime.  In adult life we learn that even the people we love and respect the most cannot GUARANTEE they ...

Some people love it … Other’s like myself find too much of it draining, especially without the social lubricant and anesthetic assistance of alcohol. I have confessed many times throughout...

When we honour our own and other’s right to be UPSET the less UPSET we and they will be. Love is demanding on our fearful hearts and it is healthy and natural at times to feel out of balance and UPSET...