When This Over…

by | Apr 6, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

Author Laura Kelly Fanucci shares a reflection for us this Monday morning: When this is over, May we never again take for granted A handshake with a stranger Full shelves at the store Conversations with neighbors A crowded theatre Friday night out The taste of...

Every Day Is A Gift

by | Mar 30, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

Howard Zinn is an American historian, playwright and thinker whose words continue to inspire us on this beautiful Monday morning: We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human...

On Love

by | Mar 16, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

If you ever wonder what it is that stirs us from within to strive to be a better person, or enables us to “feel with” someone who is suffering or in pain, or celebrates when good things come together, or spurs us on towards an unlikely or difficult to attain goal, or...

Golden Repair

by | Mar 9, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

Have you heard of Kintsugi? –also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the...

Be Kind To Yourself

by | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation

So often what cripples us is not our external circumstances, but the sharp and unforgiving voice of our own internal critic. Through our negative self-talk, we treat ourselves in ways that we would never dream of treating even our worst enemy much less a friend....