Great Circle

What do you hope for? What do you dream about?
World domination? Fame? Influence? Success? $$? Becoming a hero? Having great kids? Having a great partner? Being a great partner?? Creating something the world has never seen? Changing lives? Becoming great at what you do? Just finding a way out of the rut? …
Progress comes from [...]

 
Ahhh, the pressure even the youngest of us are under to get things done, to deliver the stuff (whatever the stuff is) …
Them ancient civilisations (or Civs as gamers call ‘em) knew a thing or two about livin’ right. The ancient Hebrews for instance had a tradition called Shabbat. You might have heard it called “Sabbath” [...]

There’s a great story at the end of the Gospel of John. Jesus has come back from the dead but he keeps popping in and out of his disciples’ lives without giving them their next project to work on. Consequently, these fellas go back to what they know: fishing.
Not the recreational kind of fishing; the [...]

I took this snapshot at my kitchen table just now. Xander left this there as he went to school this morning. It epitomises the inner wrestle in boys/men between the Warrior and the Nurturer.
This makes me feel like he’s getting a good balance…

I believe in all that has never been spoken.
I want to free what awaits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no [...]

So dependency theory has underlined some of the ways we become hooked either ON something/someone or BY something/someone. He/she/it has power and control over some portion of our being or resources.
 
What do you do when you want it to stop?
SOLUTION #1: Cost Reduction
This is where the party on whom the power is being used adjusts [...]