We all are blessed in some way, in something. We each get something beautiful in life, sometimes more than one. What’s your amazing blessing?

The storm was getting worse. The darkest clouds I’ve seen propelled at, thrust over and tumbled past the mountain peaks, shoving the wind out front. I felt this mountain storm way before I saw it.

My nervous system was fully aware, awake and in action. Every nerve ending was buzzing, pinging, every single one. My body was at the mercy of all the jolts; compulsively shifting and shaking and twitching. I was barely able to hold my form.

I couldn’t believe it. My hand wouldn’t open the door. It was like the signal from thought to action was completely severed. I wanted to open the door. I had walked up to open the door.

We all need a bridge from where we are to where we want to get to. This is as true in business as much as in family. An oftimes forgotten part of the equation is actually, the success of the endeavor.

What waste is, is apparently a constantly running theme or moral I adopted. Now it’s under my conscious thought. My fight tends to be centered in ‘not wasting.’

We were allready away from home, training for deployment to Afghanistan. There was a moment when I was a tad bit more frustrated than I was able to deal with in a composed way, without some outlet.

Going to church at war is a unique experience. The weapons must always be with the soldier so the weapons come with the soldier to church service.

I have 2 younger sisters. The one closest in age, she’s taller than me. She’s many things more than me. She and I, like all other people, ebb and flow in our relationship. Every relationship, chosen or born together, ebbs and flows just like nature.

In some historical as well as in current practices, certain companies or powers and societies in general; abuse, assault, even rape as a form of gaining power over others. This is also called forms of bullying and this is ‘might makes right’ Machinavellian power.

Machiavellianism is a belief system from a same named character in historical accounts characterized by a tendency to see other people as a means to an end or the ‘might makes right’ attitude.

I took part in a planned process about choosing whether to survive. For those few of you that understand what I am saying, kudos, you've been to a personal development seminar. If you haven’t, no worries, we are all still doing what the process teaches all the time, and that is the relevant fact here.

I’ve spent stretches of my life feeling very alone. And I have actually been alone at certain times and places. When I have chosen that, I relish in the time and the recuperation I receive from being alone. When the negative alone happens to me, it’s because I want something else to be true, not what is.

At a personal development seminar I recently attended, we were asked to, while we went out to lunch, to not only eat, but to improve someone's life. Just to have that intention and focus.

Picture this, an 11 year old, shy blond girl at a summer camp she was excited to do. Sweatered and skinny, she thought it might be a little cold yet for hiking this morning.

I was privileged to be around a mountain of a man once. I was in training with the military. As a unit, we were to arrive shortly in Afghanistan.

My oldest son spread his wings as he reached adulthood. Good for him. We all want our children to launch. For me it was very painful, dramatic and intense. Not at all what I expected.

Principles, standards or boundaries? Principles are eternal truisms like kindness or that life has value. In any culture or century it’s always true. Standards are living by principles.

I talk by phone to this lady frequently, a friend from a personal development seminar we both attended a while ago. We discuss growth and shifting from less to more in every phone call. She said something that struck me profoundly.

Fundamentally I am opposed to be mean and rude to people, even those who are being rude and mean to me. Now, that statement does not mean I cannot be nor have not been my share of that, and for sure we have all experienced our double share of that from others.