We’ve changed the way we approach our Sunday Morning Music posts. For the past few months, these posts have been authored by artists so you could get a glimpse into what inspires them. We hope you enjoy today’s post from our friend, Griffin House.
Last week, the string duo playing “Let it Be” took the majority vote.
Which of these is your favorite this week? [...]
05Apr, 2013
Busy is both my drug and my defense. By that I mean that I use busy-ness to make me feel numb and safe, the way you use a drug, and I use busy-ness as a way of explaining all the things I dropped, didn’t do well, couldn’t pull together, as a defense.
And I’m telling you this because I want to stop. I want to drop the drug and the defense, one from each hand, letting them fall with heavy thunks, and I want to live a new way.
I know it’s not all or nothing, or all at once. In the same way that most married couples have like the same three fights over and over throughout their life together, I think each person has two or three issues that rear their heads over and over, and that those issues spike especially when the stress level gets a little bit elevated for whatever reason [...]
04Apr, 2013
I’ve always had mixed feelings about George W. I voted for him once (his second term) and coming from Texas had something of an emotional tie to the former President. Not only that, but I like him. I naively believe, of all the former Presidents, he and I would get along the best. I’d rather sit in a duck blind with a dog and George W. than with anybody else. I think we’d get along. If only he drank beer.
That said, I wonder at times if his Presidency didn’t get swayed too strongly by Dick Cheney and the whole Neo-Con control machine (without which he would not have gotten elected). It’s a shame, really. W. may have done more for the continent of Africa than any other President, at least from a foreign policy/financial perspective. Despite popular belief, he was a strong advocate for the poor and marginalized. And I like the fact he wanted to lower taxes, but I hate the fact he increased the national debt [...]
One afternoon I got a notice from the post office that I had three parcels waiting for me. I had been expecting a script, but not a parcel. I drove to the post office to pick them up. They were boxes from my sister. I recognized them: It was my mother’s crystal.
When my mother had a stroke and developed dementia, she moved in with my sister. My sister got the dining room set, my mother’s Desert Rose china, and a chunk of money to pay for my mother’s everyday care. Mom said I could have her crystal [...]
02Apr, 2013
A few little buttons on the internet have created an entire new way of seeing the world. And the next generation, a generation who is growing up holding an Ipad or Iphone will be dramatically affected.
These days, you can opt in or opt out, agree or disagree, be a follower or an unfollower, a friend or foe.
But what gets lost is something dramatic [...]
01Apr, 2013
Oh, I know, I’m an ageist. But I don’t mean it that way. I fact, I firmly believe people in their twenties, officially one generation behind me, are better than my generation. What I mean by this is they are more altruistic, more international, more objective and less fearful than any generation I can remember.
And yet, they are also delusional. And here’s why [...]
We’re changing the way we approach our Sunday Morning Music posts. For the next month, these posts will be authored by artists so you can get a glimpse into what inspires them. We hope you enjoy today’s post from our friend, Trent Dabbs.
Whoa! Magic clerk won by only 1 vote. So fun to have so many of you chiming in.
Which is your favorite this week? [...]
I have a lot of conversations with people worried about what they do. Worried they aren’t making an impact. Worried their life isn’t panning out the way they expected.
But I know for a fact that the person you are becoming is far more important than the work you are doing.
This isn’t just my spirituality talking either. I believe good character creates sustainable success [...]
