FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

Who says life isn’t a musical!?!

You know what it feels like. You have experienced it more times than you care to admit. I’m talking about that mounting feeling of pressure when overwhelm is about to knock you down again. When the day seems too long and the assignment too BIG. When the steps you take don’t seem to be long [...]

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The King’s Company: Who’s Got the Hook Up?

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

You ever noticed how everybody seems to know somebody that “can help you with that. Let me just give them a call for you. Don’t worry, I’ll hook you up.” These days everybody seems to need a hook up, want a hook up, or have a hook up. Have you ever wondered what all that [...]

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How Did I Get Here? . . . & Tips on Learning How to Hunt for Pearls

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

We traveled a-lot when I was growing up and for a season we stayed in Jacksonville, Florida near the water. Every evening my sisters and I would build sand castles, create shared adventures within our mind, and search out clams fully expecting to find pearls on the inside. We seemed to never tire of the [...]

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Time Travel

FREEDOM (No Limits!)

When we look back on the life we live year after year, we need to be proud of the way we have traveled through time. My questions for the last two months of this year: (1) Am I making calculated and well placed strides toward the dream? Am I getting there bit by bit? (2) [...]

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Sagas in the bathroom: the showerhead

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

Oh, I’m back in the bathroom again and this time it’s all about the shower. Some of you know that we recently changed our toilet bowl seat and now we have done it again with a new shower-head. It is amazing to me how the simplest changes have an impact on the quality of our [...]

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Sagas in the bathroom: the toilet in a good light

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

Have you ever been on some vacation in some nice hotel is some new city and hated to leave and step back into your “regular life?” It doesn’t happen to me all the time, but when it does I take it as a need to make a change in my “regular life,” so that I [...]

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Gone in September . . .

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

It’s official, the end of the year is here. Tomorrow is the beginning of the fourth quarter and it brings to mind all of our New Year’s Resolutions. Why am I bring it up now when there are clearing 3 more months or 92 more days, or need I count the hours? 2209, in case [...]

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Getting to the Business of Living

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

“I have these yesterdays that creep into my future. I try to walk in new dreams but I have this old pain that just gets in the way. I seek after new moments but it seems to be the old me when I get there. I’m looking for something new but it never seems to [...]

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What Do You Want, Really?

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

What are we looking for? I mean we hunt for the right jobs, the right mate, the right friend, the right seat, the right city to live in, the right house. We purpose our search as a need for “the best.” And we acquire more but some how never truly “arrive” at this place that [...]

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Duke Ellington: Jazz Legend

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

This man was born at the turn of the century, and it seems he set the country on fire with his music. Composing over 1500 songs of varying styles, he called his music American Music, but it is widely considered jazz. If you have a mood, then he has a song for you. He made [...]