The Art of Pondering - A Search for Meaning

Marketing gurus and life coaches are constantly tossing around words like “niche” and “brand.” To be perfectly honest, both words kind of make me gag. It probably comes from living inside a perfectly constructed box for much of my life and now that I’ve broken free I resist going back inside. But… and there’s always a but… if I had to select my niche or brand then I would have to say it is Pondering. I Ponder.

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Unplugging. Will you? Can you? Would you? I did.

Recently I decided to take a challenge and participate in the National Day of Unplugging and go off the grid for 24 hours. After the initial panic subsided when I realized it entailed turning off my iPhone in addition to the computer and iPad, I reconciled with my decision, sent my family a reminder I was unplugging, and waited for the sun to set.

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Daily Pause: Alchemy and Allies

A beautiful pairing of images and quotations for us to ponder...

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Roiling with the Punches

Ponderings from my notepad… “During Lent, (ponderers) are supposed to ask one way or another what it means to be themselves.” Frederick Buechner

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Pondering Love and 'If Only'...

It’s easy to get stuck in the cultural buildup and expectations of what “love” is supposed to look like. A human tendency is to let our brains run wild and manufacture all sort of ‘if only’ stories with the assumption that once we find the precise combination everything will click into place.

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