“Tell me a story” was my favorite thing when I was a kid. My mom was a wonderful storyteller and she had a simple rule to encourage me tell stories. “You tell me a story and I will tell you a story”. Oh how I loved it when my mother told me a story so […]
Recently I had to say farewell to an old and dear friend, and I was informed about his death at the moment I was grieving for another friend who died 6 years ago. After the first moments of shock, there was a song going through my mind. A special song which I haven’t heard in
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What we hear and see a lot these days is “let us move on and focus on…” when a problem or mistake is addressed. Especially in politics. This basically says “don’t bother me with the consequences of what I did” and it also says “I do not feel accountable and do not want to be
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My mother was a fantastic storyteller. Stories about her activities. Stories about the books she was reading. Stories about her plans. Stories I just could not get enough of. Saturday morning, curled up under the cover and listening to a story. For my mother, everything was a story and everything had a story to tell.
It can be convenient to surround yourself with people who agree with you and people you agree with. But what are you learning from them? What information can you share, discuss, approach from different perspectives? Fact is, you learn the most from people who disagree with you. And it isn’t as much how they explain
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We met some 40 years ago. It was intense and it was also casual. Both of us just doing our jobs, nothing more than that. And at the same time, we were brothers in arms, a bond that couldn’t be stronger. Depth without depth as you called it. 20 years later we met again. Both
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We all carry a suitcase of history and experiences. Some are good, some are bad. And some of it is waste we should not carry around every single day. When we keep that waste around, we keep carrying it forward into our new days. Sometimes you have to rebuild your life and take out the
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Having a good day can be simple or it can be complicated. A lot of that depends on your mindset and how you think about yourself and others, about your surroundings, about what does or doesn’t happen. But not all of it. Somethings happen without your influence. Come to think of it, a lot of
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