Modern Day Good Samaritans
We can set the heuristic to help and then we don’t even have to weigh our options.
Filling the Unforgiving Minute with Nurturing Soil and Sunlight
What a wondrous gift we can give to others and to ourselves in truly forgiving.
Let’s Focus on our Own Game
We can be better supports for others by listening than by laying out a whole game plan for those we care about.
Life Like a River
We should try to be more like a river than a terminal lake with a purpose and without relying on outside forces to drive our happiness.
Leaving a Legacy Written Down Seven Generations
What a different would it make if we took a longer view approach to decision making?
Market Driven Hippie Bakeries
There are so many pathways to fulfilling work if we can discover and live true to our core values.

Replacing Our Tires to Avoid the Wreck
If we make incremental steps toward some bigger need, it’ll be easier to make the right decisions.

Being Grateful for Even Laundry Soap
We need to celebrate the people who go unseen but help make our lives so much easier and richer.

That Dog Eat Dog World Should Just Take a Breath
If we take some time to just let be, we can find new ways of cherishing life.
Changing the World One Moment of Generosity at a Time
By incorporating generosity and unified effort, we can do remarkable things together.
Having a Whale of an Impact One Person at a Time
We can’t control how people react to our heart-felt efforts to share what matters to us. So let’s share our truth authentically and with kindness.

Setting Up Our Seeds to Grow
We have to take all the keystone steps to help us become who we want to become.

Leveraging History’s Perspective
Having a broader context for our current challenges that give us added endurance and hope to get us through.
There is Always Room for Hope
Even though there are dark things in the world, we can see hopeful things happening right in our own neighborhoods too.

Bearing the Whips and Cowlicks of Time
Trade-offs can be tough, but if we fully commit to some course of action, some fantastic things can happen.
Rising Above That Darn Talent Trap
None of us are doomed to grow only those talents we think we have. We can also learn to enjoy so many other things even just for ourselves.

Giving Mountainous Grace Out of Mole Hills
We should cheer each other on with their challenges no matter how we might judge them to be easy or difficult.

The Complexity of the American Experience
Preserving a vibrant and hopeful and richly complex America is certainly something worth celebrating today.