#502 – What message does comparing and competing send your mind?The reason we humans compare ourselves and compete is because we need to make sure we have resources (food, mates, power). Better said: our Ego needs to make sure we won't die (of starva...

#501 – What part of you needs you to always look good?The prospect of being rejected freaks your Ego so much that it'll make you lie even to yourself if that'll keep its positive image inside your mind.Reading a passage in Patti Smith's M Train last...

#500 – What are you willing to forgive, unconditionally?What are you willing to forgive––no buts, no ifs, no questions asked? What complaints are you willing to drop? What grudges are you ready to forget?Start by analyzing your surroundings: what bot...

#499 – What's your reward for forgiving everyone, including yourself?When you forgive, it's you whose life improves.Making good on my promise to set my daily intention to forgive all involved in my son's case, I started to send an "I forgive you...

#498 – What scares you about facing your true intentions?Feeling like a "good person" is a strong driver for most of us. Facing the possibility that we're not one is hard.Three years ago, my sister's accusation that I'd manipulated her into doing som...

#497 – What intentions are driving you through life?Whenever you're not fully conscious of your intentions, autopilot's on. In that mode, you take your Ego's orders.Soon after my son was arrested, I told Barbara Huson I wanted to publish an essay abo...

#496 – What's your unprocessed grief trying to tell you?The thing about grief is that it shows up unlabeled. You feel inexplicable fatigue, paralysis, or lack of excitement, yet you don't know where these come from. You try to go on with your life as...

#495 – Can grief make you lazy, listless, and defeated?You’ve heard it many times: everyone grieves differently. But how do you know when you are grieving?My son spent 10 months in jail. Upon release in August 2025, he wasn’t allowed to leave th...

#494 – How much of yourself are you not living?Through years of training to please and be accepted, perhaps you buried parts of your Self so deep that you forgot what they are.That’s "under-being:" not occupying your whole self because not all parts...

#493 – What part of your resume is really you?Adapting to marketplace expectations is the easiest way to closet who you really are. But it’s necessary to survive in this world, you may argue.To support my son's case transfer to Oregon, I'm looki...