#257 Off the Grid

I will be off the grid and out of touch for a while. I won’t have access to email, voicemail, phone or text. I will have access to water, sky, trees, and campfires. And Walleyes. I’ll be canoe camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — an extended trip....

#256 Can You Be Happy?

Can you be happy? Well, what’s keeping you from it? Do your automatic, ingrained responses to life’s situations and circumstances cause you to feel happy? Yes? No? If not, change your response. It is easily done, it just takes practice. If you can think one thing, you...

#255 Lamentations

Choose your solution. I’ve heard a lot of laments lately — the state of the nation; the state of the workplace; the state of relationships. But for every lament there are solutions, and they are legion. Here’s one solution I like: become what I desire. Do I desire...

#254 Assiduousness

In Tenacity Notes #191, August 26, 2013, I announced that I had decided to walk the Path of Love. Immediately, there were many delights along the way, joy was my companion in life, and I was grateful that I had chosen to walk this Path. It was easy. There have been...

#253 Unconditional Acceptance

Is “unconditional acceptance of all others” an achievable goal? I have trouble even imagining such an accomplishment! Whew. Time to get out the string to tie on my finger. I will move in the direction of unconditional acceptance by remembering, over and over, that...

#252 In Person

I’m in Apple Valley, MN for several days. We got here just in time for the lilacs and the flowering trees. A balm. (Yes, that’s my home in the photo.) I have some open time, so if you’d like an in-person reading, get in touch. After Memorial Day we head up to the Iron...