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Forgiveness is such a powerful, and powerfully difficult thing.  As I’ve shared in previous blogs, for many months I have worked to forgive my attackers.  I have held the intention, meditated and read books about forgiveness.  I’ve made something of a mantra from the quote attributed to Buddha, “Hating someone is like drinking rat poison […]

Tempering is a process used to toughen steel and glass.  It involves applying intense heat.  With steel the tempering process is done after the steel has been hardened.   The metal is heated to just below a critical point and then allowed to cool in still air.  This reduces hardness, increasing the ability to absorb energy […]

I have never been this ready for a year to come to a close.  I know January 1st is just another day but this time it seems much more. A few days ago I was meeting with an author friend of mine.  We were discussing what a challenging year it had been for me, for […]

Yesterday I woke up in a funk, not really sure why.  I just felt stressed and unsettled.  During meditation my monkey mind was all over the place.  Then, the morning hours that I had carved out to write and work on a couple of deadline projects got derailed and consumed by stressful, frustrating issues and […]

Forgiving is no simple thing.  There’s a quote attributed to both Buddha and Ghandi along the lines of, “Hating someone is like drinking rat poison expecting the other guy to die.”  I get it intellectually, but man, with the handful of those who attacked most viciously or professed to be friends but weren’t it is […]