Live on purpose

  T O X I C  Positivity F ake niceties. Bumper sticker clichés. Hollow feel-goods. We’ve all heard them. Heck, we’ve all said them. While they may sound kind and helpful, living your life by cliches may prevent you from ever diving deeper into real, meaningful connections and relationships with others…and even with yourself. You'll stay in the shallow end of life. You may even start to believe these platitudes should and can be true all the time, that life would be oh so much better if we could all JUST THINK POSITIVE. And what happens to that house of cards when the reality of life hits? When you have not prepared your head or heart for disappointment, or grief, or tragedy because you’ve been so busy working hard to think only positive thoughts? In my slightly twisted sense of humor, I tend to gravitate the other way. For motivation while running I berate rather than encourage myself (much to the dismay of all my counselor friends, I’m sure!). And one of my favorite comp...

Lest you start to believe THE HIGHLIGHT REEL is the whole truth. W elcome to my first blog. Glad you're here. :) I don't plan to have a theme for this blog, just thoughts or ideas that caught my ear at some point and I decided to flesh out and share. I'd like to do one a week or so, but we all know how that kind of plan goes. It may peter out after a few weeks or months, or who knows, perhaps it will become a form of therapy that endures. I may have 10 subscribers, all family members, or maybe I'll be the next Heather Cox Richardson... Ha! Now THAT is dreaming big, but hey, it's MY dream to dream! I would need to know A LOT more than I currently do to even be worthy of bringing her a glass of water while she writes. (See? We all are tempted to envy someone's highlight reel!) One of my non-highlight reels is this: There are days that I STRUGGLE since we moved to Florida. Despite the beauty and the sunshine and the great weather (in the winter) and the nearby...