Every major religion emphasizes kindness as an important attribute in its principles of living. I offer three caveats concerning kindness, and my seven point prescription for everyday kindness, applicable toward self and others.

A recent Psychology Today article purported that wise folks have 5 characteristics: they self-regulate their emotions, they act, decide, and counsel mindful of the wellbeing of all involved, and they recognize patterns where the past may offer useful info. Finally, they adapt to their environment, shape it, or change it completely, and they make the best of disappointing situations.

Our innate novel seeking curiosity behavior energizes the motivational drive for investigating unknowns and making new discoveries. How do we feel when we are curious? Annoyed, an itch we can’t scratch, bugged, stressed, excited, fun to figure out an answer? Energized to find out more? Take the curiosity quiz : https://curiosity.britannica.com/curiosity-personality-quiz.html

Patience seems hard to come by in our multitasking hurry hurry world, hiding in the bamboozle of “out of my way, I’m up to important things”. Subtle at first as it plays peek a boo with my awareness, encouraging me with hints of a different way of being. If rushing is a form of violence against self and others then is patience an antidote?

I was recently on a friend's podcast: Create to Heal Podcast is about life, leadership, and conversations from the heart. Each episode, we explore what creativity and healing mean to our invited guest. Enjoy!

We have many end of life options these days, but we can make conscious choices only if we are willing to get more comfortable with our own mortality. So how do we do that?

The wind supports me in rattling my own cage, pulls me out of circling the wagons of illusion with rationalization & self- protection, often with the ends justify the means as a mantra. I'm summoned to examine those nooks and crannies where I might have made rationality a god, at the expense of my vitality. Its wild and crazy nature refuses to condemn my passionate primitive energies to an underground existence—the life I live and the one I have forgotten. It urges me to welcome fathomless darkness and sidereal silence.

Seems like perhaps we need a category of PRTSD, Pre- traumatic stress disorder, given the abundant opportunities for anxiety around anticipated trauma from shootings or emerging climate change disasters. Although it sounds a bit big brother-ish, why not allow schools to monitor facebook & other social media posts, especially by young males? We check their drawers and lockers for guns and drugs, isn’t that part of the monitoring function of adults with young people?

How wide the divide between the NRA and the average gun owner. I suggest seven areas which not all gun owners will agree with, but many of them do.

Here is a short important link I encourage you to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DP3ssCfLY Time for some effective initiatives!

All those save the planet signs and especially the energy of young people engaged in this issue are inspiring but the reality is that the planet would be fine without us: it is the humans that need the saving energy. I’ve often said that the human species is in its adolescence: full of both creative and destructive potential. This next decade will clearly bring a series of defining moments as to which path we choose: survival vs suicide. And the quality of life in terms of future survival is very much dependent on our current-day choices. How wide the divide between climate science and our collective ability to take action!