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Dear TSJ Friends, For our shared journey wisdom this week, I am about to tell you a true tale. I wish I made it up. It all started in the yogurt, sour cream and shredded cheese area of our grocery store. It happened because I was shopping in a hurry and against my better judgment because of COVID-19. Solomon has been kindly bemused by it too. He thought it great material for us to ponder together because his goal is to help expand our capacity for love and compassion. So what happened?  I had a large blind spot.  You see,

Greetings, TSJ Friends, Have you ever heard the expression, “Where there is a will there is a way?” What does it mean to you? I am quite certain that was one of my father’s favorites.  And I did not like it at the time.  This usually (but to his credit – not always) came in a less than inspiring context. You see, he said this when he wanted us to do something that he felt we were perfectly capable of doing and we were resisting. I remember more than once hearing him say this and watching him simply walk away.

Dear TSJ Faithful Friends, Sometimes we all “need a lift” in life!  We often don’t think of it that way when it comes to our emotional state of being, but if our car breaks down or we run out of gas or our car is stuck in the snowbank etc. and we need to get somewhere on time; if someone asks, “Do you need a lift?” it is like music to our ears. When a child cannot see the monkey in the zoo or the fireworks in the park we give them a lift. And things look different. When a baby

Happy Wednesday to our TSJ Friends! It is that time of the week when we seek just a little bit of wisdom, like Winne-The-Pooh sets out each day to find a little taste of honey. And as you know, along the way his search leads to all kinds of adventures and mishaps. So our own team of experts have been busily discussing what to share. Those experts are familiar to most of you but I need to remind new readers that our “team of experts” are Sigmund, (named after Freud) our resident psychologist, SJ  (Solomon Junior) who constantly questions things from