the smile and warm approval that flowed out from the checker was amazing! It was a beautiful example of focused positive attention!
Yearly Archives: 2012
A walk in Downtown Honolulu
it is rather lowering to realize that my quality of life rests rather heavily on very small micro habits — like flossing. Like putting things away — right away.
Tagged with: David Allen, Dillingham Transportation building, flossing, micro habits, putting things away
Posted in choices, compassion to care for myself, Habits, walking not running
Posted in choices, compassion to care for myself, Habits, walking not running
Going Slow enough to Stop
developing a willingness to do at all what I do so badly.
Tagged with: a relaxed rhythm, fruits of a second retirement, Gold Trees, learning to work at learning, stopping
Posted in learning, relaxation, stopping, time, Trees
Posted in learning, relaxation, stopping, time, Trees
Dining Out with a Side of Thoughts-on-Changing
Carol Dweck’s book Mindset is so encouraging, but, I have to remember that I can choose a Growth Mindset!
Giant Drill Bits and Hearts of Stone
If our future is bound up in Connections . . . then maybe we should pay more attention to what serves to Disconnect.
Tagged with: Giant drill bits, Hearts of Stone, NEAT Gotthhard Base Tunnel, tunnels under the Alps
Posted in connecting, connections, Hearts
Posted in connecting, connections, Hearts
Bromeliad Leaves, Connections and Respect
I feel as if I am just barely touching the Deep Importance of the Logarithmic Acceleration of Internet Connections. It is as if my mind knows it is BIG and IMPORTANT but is blind to how or why or what it might mean.
Tagged with: bromeliad leaves, connections, learning as making connections
Posted in connecting, connections, respect, Sharing
Posted in connecting, connections, respect, Sharing
Sitting (right now) off the beaten path
I am now beginning to understand viscerally what Dr. Arch Hart said about how “BUSY builds a WALL around our brain’s Pleasure Center.”
Tagged with: anhedonia, busy, Dr. Arch Hart
Posted in Balancing and adjustments, busy, busy as an attack strategy, compassion to care for myself, humility
Posted in Balancing and adjustments, busy, busy as an attack strategy, compassion to care for myself, humility
Enlarging our View — Life as Meaningful
We’re working hard pulling people out of the River of illness. How about looking upstream to see why they were falling in?
Tagged with: a sense of coherence, Aaron Antonovsky, comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness, salutogenesis
Posted in friends, health, Hope as a gift from God, learning
Posted in friends, health, Hope as a gift from God, learning
Looking back on a Good Day
One excellent result that comes out of being sick is that one realizes (eventually . . .) that many of our “virtues” have more to do with the level of our energy than our character.
A Moment with God 