The flight was horrendous. Not because of turbulence or difficult passengers. It was horrendous because my youngest child suffers from severe motion sickness. Over the 18 hours we were in the air, he threw up no less than 12 times.
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The Value of Guarding Your Attention
How often does something pull your attention away from the present? Whether getting lost in thought or scrolling through our phones, distractions define our lives more than our intentions. None of us is immune to the plethora of attention-sucking stimuli in our lives, but we all have the tools necessary to gain some of our agency back. Remember the Pixar movie WALL-E, where the people were sitting in their floaty chairs, utterly unaware of their surroundings? At one point, WALL-E accidentally bumps into one of the floaty chair people and inadvertently makes her aware of reality. Out from behind her screen, seemingly obvious truths became revelations. "I didn't know we…
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The Value In Appreciating The Gifts You Never Wanted
Every Wednesday, it's the same. The cashier at Subway pulls out a plastic bag. I say, "No, thank you. I've brought my own." We all have a good chuckle at my expense, and he proceeds to stuff the sandwiches into my reusable shopping bag, muttering, "Ah yes. Very good. No plastic." Under his breath.
