by Ginny Brien | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have been walking around for the past few days smiling at nothing, smiling at everything. Our kitchen now has a sink and running water, and nearly finished floors, and as of this evening walls that are smooth enough for me to paint. And I love the look of how it’s... 
by Carol Orndorff | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Thanksgiving Day I had much to be thankful for. Liz and I had gone up to Amicalola Falls State Parklodge for the holiday. Wednesday night at the lodge was quiet, with a breathtaking winter sunset over the North Georgia mountains, followed by a very full orange... 
by Nancy Chek | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gratitude does not automatically spring to mind when things don’t go my way. I can be willing, however, to look, to appraise the situation and at least inquire into “the full worth of” something. If it all looks horrible, I find it useful to take the case that maybe... 
by Ken Cecil | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Standing before the computer screen that serves as a cash register in the self-service lane at my local Kroger. Modern tills are more data managers than anything else. The idea of a cash box long pushed aside by a card-carrying society that doesn’t really know... 
by Gary Davis | Nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
As I was riding in my car, I had the thought, “I don’t even know how I see things.” I see things some way, and I see what I see, but what if my seeing is like being in a projector room, and I’m the projector? I talked to Danny for an hour yesterday after... 
by Laura Neff | Oct 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
There’s a line in the Being a Leader course: “What remains undistinguished runs you.” That leads to a loss of power, so I have an intense interest in distinguishing those things that run me, like a computer virus humming in the background. In my own quest toward...