I’m Not Going Away
I’ll just be in my cave for awhile I’m about to do a very scary thing It might not seem that way to you. But for me, it makes my innards feel discombobulated, as though they’ve been slightly rearranged. Here’s…
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Change Your Focus, Change Your World
What you pay attention to forms your experience. For this month, I’ve set myself a challenge I’m calling Radical Gratitude: to discover something that sparks my joy (‘scuse me, Marie Kondo), or my wonder, and especially my appreciation, and share…
Adjust Your Focus
As I write this my Napa Valley town, like a huge swath of California,is under a pall of smoke from the current plague of wildfires. The sunlight is tinged with an otherworldly amber glow. The air, when we venture outside,…
Forming Impressions
adamscountyextra.com Do you remember 7th grade? I mean, in any detail? When I ask parents this question, their recollections tend to be cringeworthy. The time they got food stuck in their braces at the dance and sat outside the gym for the rest…
Three Surefire Ways To Achieve Focus
Observe the use of the words “three” and “surefire” in the title of this post, thus employing the time-honored schtick of motivational speakers and writers. If you’re still reading, it worked. Your attention is at least momentarily caught, if not necessarily…