Daily writing promptWhat’s the best way to build self-confidence?View all responses It's been a life-long journey for me, building self-confidence. I almost put the term "self-esteem" in the title, but then thought better of it. It's really confidence that has ebbed and flowed for me over the near six decades walking the Earth. My self-esteem …
Category: attitude
Leo: “For The Love Of Truth“
Leo on a visit to Spain, “Pope Leo XIV in Spain: “For the love of truth, I invite everyone to set aside the divisive and polarizing narratives of your societal reality and history, so as to overcome sterile simplifications through the fruitful appreciation of complexity. I see here a vocation particularly suited to Europe, in …
Hmm…Gotta Be J …
If you had to change your name, what would your new name be? I think it has to be Jeremiah, I’m a J already … Jeffrey Jeff Jeffy Jefy Jeffer … So yes, Jeremiah, That’s the call … GOOD.
Evolved Yummy
Describe your dream chocolate bar. I’m no chocolate connoisseur, but for sure that is one of my favorite if not the favorite sweet thing that I enjoy… I can remember as a kid going to the convenience store, Milky Way, Three Musketeers, Snickers, $10,000 bar, never mind, peanut butter and chocolate together… So so good. …
Sweet Slumber
This refrain I return to over and over again, sweet slumber, how I long for you, In the darkness, and cozy, finding refuge from the popurrí of purposes that plague my mind, why so befuddled? I know the dread will pass and I will stand up straight to the day, slog through, best I can, …
Folate … Ahh, What?!
Funny the muse, spark from anywhere. This time emerged from reading a nutritional comparison of Spinach & Romaine. Folate. Also know as vitamin B9. More in Spinach than Romaine, Get your daily dose of Folate for long-term health, GOOD.
Here Are Three
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Here are three, three books of maybe 33 books that have meant something to me, s Still do, Stayed with me, re-read still, decades later, seeking more goodness from the words, stories, insights, THE PROPHET, book of poems about life, by Lebanese poet, Khalil …
Periodic Injection, Humanity
From Leo’s recent encyclical, Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a …
Summer Knocking
Funny thing, Summer Time. As students, we’re wired to having that time off, a break…13 years we spend conditioned to this yearly pace and pattern. I grew up in a teacher family, so that structure was all the more re-enforced. But all that said, gotta say, I think it’s also important to counterbalance, Realize that …
Remembering Hoagy
Funny thing, inside joke, maybe only for me now. When I was growing up my dad seemed to have a thing with nicknames. For example, my brother was “bud”, while I was called “bomber”; these were just names my dad sometimes used. He had different nicknames for some of his friends and colleagues as well. …
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