Archive for May, 2006
What Needs to Happen First?
For a couple months I’ve been working with a young man in financial services. He’s married with one child. He’s tired and doesn’t smile as much as he’d like. He also drinks more than he knows is healthy and doesn’t get enough exercise. Know anyone like that? It’s easy to see that he has a big heart, even if it seems a bit weighed down by “practical concerns.” He’s tired of the ups and downs of commission-based work and hired me to help him “make more money.” He recently had two very rich months and wanted to avoid returning to his “average” monthly income.
Usually I don’t work with clients who approach me with making money as their main goal. But, our paths crossed in such a way I decided to…
Seeing It All
If Spring explodes
Into colors,
And aromas,
And warm sunlight
One day;
If the crocuses,
And daffodils seem to
Pop up suddenly,
And the robin’s breast
Arrests our attention,
It’s because
We’ve trained our eyes
On the threshold
Where drama lives.
But, this Spring didn’t spring.
It inched up to radiance,
Through long silence,
And blackness,
And cold.
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Hey Man, Where You Been?
I remember when I was a kid and the phone rang, I was excited to answer it. In the days before Caller ID, it was, for the most part, an exciting and, more often than not, welcome interruption in my home routine.
Of course there were stretches of time when I and a friend were in a spat or had permanently fallen out or I had broken up with someone who kept calling and calling and calling. Those calls were not happily anticipated or answered. But, for the most part, I answered the phone eagerly.
I used to get the mail with the same eagerness. Not that much came for me; I saw my friends every day so no postcards arrived from exotic locales around the world. Birthdays were about the…
