Here we are in the early twenties of the 21st Century, and it’s a really polarizing time to be on planet earth! Staying open-minded seems harder now than it’s been in living memory, and it’s a practice that calls us to task on a daily basis.
Something happens when you approach the age of 30, where you start looking for “life checkpoints”. Have I made it to such and such point in my life or become so and so? You attempt to analyze your life in some sort of quantifiable way.
It’s Spring here in the Southern Hemisphere, and renewal and regeneration is on everyone’s mind. We’ve come out of a long, cold Winter once again (think Alaska if you’ve never visited the bottom of the World!).
Lately I have found that normal, every-day occurrences (or even hypothetical situations) give me anxiety quite easily. Sure, I had been anxious about things before. Social anxiety prior to (or after) a gathering, emotional situations.
Are you being pushed by the pain? Or pulled by a vision? Such a profound question! It was more than a decade ago when I was asked this question, and I’ve been asking it of myself ever since.
About 6 months ago I began my quest to make the Blumvox Studios website more compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, using a tool that follows specific rules.
“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.” -Robert Harris
I immediately thought of this quote when contemplating the idea of “being of service”. Why are people so deeply…
Whether you know it or not, and whether you like it or not, you and your actions influence others. This is not true for every individual thing you do, but it’s often enough to make an impact for those around you.
It’s an age-old debate, nature versus nurture. Do things happen because we’re born that way, or do they happen because we were raised that way.