Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
In one of Life’s abundant ironies, my father never knew the person I became because of him. Growing up, Dad tried to direct my development along paths he thought best, but he found a particularly frustrating subject in me. So many learning lessons did not take. At least, at first. One of those lessons was …
Life not meeting our expectations would seem to be more of a rule than an exception, though one might be hard pressed to find evidence of this in current society. All the wailing and stamping of feet fueled by social media access certainly does a great job of amplifying the disappointments. While obnoxious, all of …
Caregiving is great at pointing out the impermanence of things… whether you were interested in being confronted with such lessons or not. Lots of things have endings. Movies, meals, and books all have finite boundaries that we accept when beginning any of them. Seeking out the adventures contained within such activities provides us with the …
Starting projects is easy. Plan, marshal resources, then put everything into action. Something new, yet familiar. Starting fresh always holds a special excitement for me. So what gives with this tendency towards stagnation that we see so often? You know. The situations where inertia sets in and things fail to move forward. I am not …
Dad's Back 