You are born into this world and within a matter of years an invisible but real menu of options is yours. Your menu is yours and no one else’s, listing things only you can do in your life. Some of the items on your menu are still there. They are still available to you. Other …
I recently bumped into a fascinating term with which I was quite familiar by practice, but not by name. It is called the Availability Heuristic. The link will go to a wiki page with a more precise definition and some examples of how the phenomenon applies in various categories of life. In short, the availability …
Henry David Thoreau famously said, “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” Thoreau had economics in mind, but I think his aphorism is equally applicable to emotional riches. Consider the common phrase, ”Happy Place”. As in, I’m going to my happy place, or I’m at my happy place. I looked it up. This phrase …
It occurred to me today that the first murder recorded in the Bible was the killing of Abel by his brother, Cain. I’ve read the story many times, but it never registered that this was the first mention of homicide. More interesting to me today, was the realization that this was a religiously motivated murder. …
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ~ James 1:19,20 I beg those of my readers who don’t consider themselves to be adherents to the Christian traditions, or see themselves as convinced …
The framers of the United States Constitution faced a daunting task. In 1787, fresh from the heady, yet costly victory of the nine-year Revolutionary War, they met in Philadelphia to formulate the charter documents. After months of debate, sometimes heated, sometimes personal, they penned the preamble to the foundational document of the burgeoning nation, with …
