In a small town, you can operate on trust and honor. What a gift.
What Is Your Attention Worth?
Our attention is our life. Let’s treat it with intelligence and care.
The Weeds and Wheat Within
This perspective doesn’t mean we passively accept disappointing behavior in ourselves or others. But it does invite us to be realistic that to be human is to be a mixture of wheat and weeds.
“Whole Lotta Umwelt Going On”
I had never known how vastly different the perceptual worlds of other creatures are.
Starstruck: The Relationship Between Awe and Caring
Gazing at the heavens may help us make a better world on earth.”
Alert: Beware of Sneezing Sponges
Comments aside, isn’t the creativity and efficiency of the natural world amazing?
Old Haunts, New Rivers
I’m grateful for what I have seen and what I can still see. And knowing what endures is not me but the river itself.
Playing in Life’s Jazz Orchestra
Life, he said, is like playing in a jazz orchestra where the Divine One is both composer and conductor. We’ve all been given a score for our life to play, as well as the freedom to play it as we want
How Vin Scully Endured Personal Tragedies
Vin — the gracious, wise, humane, and compassionate observer of so many human encounters — said the key for him to going on with his life was to “stop asking why.” I will remember that.
A-C-T-S: A Simple Form for Personal Prayer
Decades ago, I came across a simple structure for personal prayer I’ve used countless times since.
Steve Jacobsen, Ed.D 