“What IS worry, anyway?” Solomon, our TSJ very wise sheep asked the other day. Let’s be honest. We all worry. It might be about losing your job or losing your fortune or losing your loved one. Worry looks different at each juncture in life. A child worries about not getting to play a video …
Solomon (TSJ’s voice of wooly, practical wisdom), wants to remind us today that: “The Sky is the Limit!“ Yesterday and today mark the beginning of a new school year for kids, parents, and school personnel here in upstate New York. And it means “good-bye summer!” As such, most of us have been making some changes, such …
The rather unscientific word, “dirt,” is not very appealing to us but in my partnership with Solomon (TSJ’s sheep that represents our inner voice of nitty gritty wisdom), dirt has a down to earth and unadorned appeal that accurately represents practical spirituality. This is the kind of spirituality that has never been sanitized.
WHY SMILE? Have you ever really and truly thought about the power of a smile? It is a gift we give the world. And like an echo, what we give out most often comes back to us. When we see a small baby or little child, no matter our age or gender we enjoy trying …
I have been thinking of how we human/”sheep” are both complex and confusing, and predictable and programmed. We do not like to think of ourselves as either predictable or programmed. In fact, many people do not really like to think of ourselves as being like “sheep.” In our culture, we tend to struggle with …