Category: Personal
Prayer Offerings
How To Make Our Time Constructive
Our culture today is filled with much activity and busyness. How can we make our time constructive, so that life doesn’t pass before us too fast? I wasn’t planning to share a sky picture today, but I found this picture in my archives from […]
Gatekeeper
Sunrise Cloud Reflection – Orton Effect
The Chaos of Alias Email
I don’t know if it is a fad or becoming a trend, but the use of an alias email address it seems to be popular of late. The word alias = a false name used to conceal one’s identity; an assumed name. I know […]
Playgrounds
I’ve heard it said that the world is our playground. Though, I’ve noticed that many times we can learn from a playground about how to live in the world. The other day as I was taking the dog for a walk by the local […]
Legacy – How Do You Want To Be Remembered
These are the words that came across my computer this week, and what I’ve been pondering since. Many of us go through life taking for granted the short time we have on earth to make our mark, I suspect. Others of us make profound […]
Community Picnic
Bird Dancing On The Line
A Pigeon scurries back and forth over the yellow safety line on a train platform in Chicago, Illinois – USA In life, there are times when we need to draw the line if nothing else than for our own health and safety. Whether it’s […]
Making Good Decisions
The best way to make good decisions is to learn from past good decisions. That when faced with making a decision, we either react or we respond. Either way, you can’t fail, because you either succeed or you learn. As the late Zig Ziglar […]
Lost In The Fog
Last Light After the Storm
Email Lists and Tracking
The branches of the tree in this picture reminds me of the winding of the information on the internet. I can only imagine all the directions our emails are going back and forth. And how keeping track of it all might be confusing if […]
The Messages In Our Lives
How we respond to others has a huge impact on the world. How we treat others makes a huge impact on how they see the world around them. The messages in our lives shared through experiences and examples, though subtle, speak and teach louder […]
Snow Under the Wetlands Bridge
Email And Mental Health
I have noticed recently more and more that people are talking about how overwhelmed they are with their email inbox and the need to make it more digestible. We know that social media has an effect on our mental health, with the algorithms and […]
Late Fall Nature Silhouette
Basketball Is Really A Numbers Game
Player count; jersey number, score board, player stats, and how few actually play the sport professionally. Basketball, like any sports, and a part of life, is all about numbers. Then, if you actually get to play pro ball, your name and skill become celebrity, […]
Bold Colors Down The Trail
Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
In America, we live in a culture that says more is better, but is this a lie? We all have our stuff packed away in the basements of our homes, sometimes extending to storage sheds that we pay to put our stuff. And, no […]
Should Artists or Nonprofits Use A Domain Name?
It is said that if you want to be successful as an artist or nonprofit that you should have your own website and domain name to establish credibility. I think this can also be said for freelancers or bootstrapers. Lets take a new look […]
Privacy, Security, and the Web
There is much talk these days with digital communications about privacy and security, because there seems to be much confusion mostly on what Big Tech is doing with it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, known for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide […]
Going Home
Why Networking is Important
Why balancing your relationships online and offline is important in life, and how it can create more and positive impact. On my social media channels I usually don’t post a picture directly, like many other artists do, along with sales jargon or a call […]
Stealing Time
The Climate of Our Lives
“Prayer is to our soul what rain is to the soil. Fertilize the soil ever so richly, it will remain barren unless fed by frequent rains.” ~ Saint John Vianney There has been a lot of talk lately, even from the pope, about global […]
Sunrise Over the White Fence
Keep Your Focus
Sometimes weeds are beautiful to look at, other times can grow so much when not cut back they can choke out flowers and other landscape growing around them. In life, weeds are the distractions and noise that keep us from doing the deep work […]
