Sleep states are a strange and interesting feature of the human experience.
During a recent road trip, my options for needed sleep were limited to hotel beds and unavoidable neck-wrenching positions while traveling in the passenger seat of a car. I missed my bed.
Although my sleep patterns were unusual, normal dream states remained intact. In fact, [...]
Normally, I love this time of the evening. It is my highly anticipated relaxation time on the front porch after a long and busy day. I make a tall glass of iced tea, light a cigarette, and take in the scenery. The air begins to cool ever so slightly, and rays from the setting sun [...]
Sometimes it takes 49 years before we allow ourselves to remember how ‘individual’ we truly are. Due to the nature of human interaction, we seem to spend much of our time identifying who we are, and why we behave the way to we do, by comparing ourselves to others. The more that we understand how [...]
During a recent phone visit with Candace, I could hear in the background as her husband entered the house. Besides the usual ruckus that accompanies a person who is returning home after a grueling day working in the salt mines, he was talking quite loudly. I could only assume that he was on his cell [...]
Once upon a time there was a vibrant elm tree that grew in the front yard of the Bean family’s modest first home. Durwood and Jillian Bean had planted the young tree within the first few months after they had moved into the house.
In the five years that they had lived there, the tree’s growth [...]
I love the invention of weekends. One 24 hour “break” from our normal routine is often not enough to rest and regroup our earthly selves. Whether your weekend includes the standard Saturday and Sunday, or falls on two other consecutive days in a week, it has been my experience that a time period of [...]
Since when is suffering considered a hallowed virtue? There is not a doubt that any well-bred Catholic would probably have the answer to that. The esteemed qualities that are required for sainthood include forbearance, suffering, and ultimate sacrifice. Individuals who exhibited these traits throughout their lifetime, and then demonstrated their “holiness” by dying for their [...]
I love coincidences in life. The recognition of corresponding circumstances and events that occur throughout one’s daily life are significant indicators of creation in action. Coincidences are personal message boards provided by the Universe to confirm that your vibrational output is aligning with your heart’s desire. Just when you start to entertain some doubts about [...]
The Wicked Witch of the West scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Every time that she appeared in a scene from The Wizard of Oz, I would resort to using the customary strategy practiced by any normal, frightened child: I covered my face with both of my hands. This time-honored [...]
Where are all of our empty clothes hangers?! I’ll tell you where they are. They have been carelessly kicked beneath our beds and dressers, strewn about on our bathroom floors, or they are tightly wedged and perched cattywampus between all the other occupied clothes hangers in our closets. They are anywhere else in and around [...]
