Monsignors Dewey Cheetem & Howe Let’s hop in our time machine and travel back to the middle ages where we will meet some very slick con men who disguised themselves as priests. These bad boys hit upon an awesome scam – let’s misquote the Bible and in so doing convince people of 3 things: 1) […]
How do I overcome what my brain sees as normal, a set point?
How do I overcome what my brain sees as normal, a set point? I was asked this question today and here are a couple of thoughts: It’s useful to view ourselves as sculptors. They take thousands of hammer swings as they chip away and the work of art emerges. Every swing moves the project forward. […]
Remembering that we do have a choice
Remembering that we do have a choice Sabine, her friend, and I drove for 3.5 hours this morning to ski at Sunlight (near Glenwood Springs, CO). 2 hours into our ski day, Sabine’s friend crashed and hurt her knee. Our ski day was over. My initial response was irritation and disappointment. I wanted to ski! […]
Look at me look at me
Look at me look at me I watched a little March Madness basketball this afternoon. Baylor got upset by Yale. Based on a very small amount of data, Baylor seems to be a group of individuals who are more concerned about looking good and individual accomplishments than a team interested in winning. I saw a […]
Lousy Mind Readers
Closing our hearts does not help
Closing our hearts does not help Sabine’s friend hurt her knee while we were skiing yesterday. However, when we were in the first aid building it looked like Sabine was in worse pain. Ron, the ski patrol guy, was joking around and keeping it light while he did his thing. I was joking around. Sabine’s […]
The power of the tongue
The power of the tongue We have the power to speak: growth or stagnation happiness or sadness encouragement or discouragement optimism or pessimism celebration or downplaying possibility or impossibility enthusiasm or apathy blessings or curses unprecedented results or limitation hope or resignation life or death Choose wisely! Much Love, Jonathan I write these Daily […]
Pavlov and my dog
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership
Sloppy Language and questionable ownership We are very careless with the words “I am” and “I have”. Those are words of identity and declaration that are very powerful. And we use them so haphazardly, identifying ourselves as or with things that if we stopped to think about it we certainly wouldn’t want to identify with. […]