Author name: Wes Roberts

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Everything changes during the holidays…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Have you noticed that? In our American culture, we celebrate an extended holiday season over the next five weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas to the New Year. These changes can evoke memories joyous or jarring; wondrous or woeful. They also offer the best of […]

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”C.I.D.P Is Not A Disease…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …But it is all about you. Really. I smile when I hear someone say, “I’m not creative.” That may be their impression, or even life-long thinking about creativity. But…that is not exactly true. Of course, when we compare ourselves to a full-fledged artist of

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We humans live in two worlds simultaneously.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One world is the outer world that we occupy daily. Our activities of work and family. Conversations with a friend or coworker. Dropping off and picking up kids from soccer practice, grocery shopping, doing a load of laundry or paying the bills.

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“I can count my good friends on one hand,”…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …was the declaration in the midst of a conversation I had recently. This was declared by a man who is so wrapped up in his work life that he hardly has time to breathe, relax, enjoy what friends he may

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Does Wisdom Create Earnings?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The wisest person ever to live on planet earth, if he were alive today, could have purchased Microsoft from Bill Gates in the morning and executed a take over of Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffet over afternoon tea. This person in a conversation with God was

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”No, really: Why are you alive?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “Well,” you might say, “that’s an easy question to answer if you are Nelson Mandela, or Abraham Lincoln, or General Eisenhower.” But let’s leave these giants of history aside for a moment and ask again, “Why are you alive?” I find it helpful,

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The day this question is being tackled is Thursday, July 29, 2015.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I am on my third trip into Rocky Mountain National Park in ten days. Oh, the deep joy of living in Colorado! 🙂 The picture you see is my view of hikers approaching Emerald Lake, just below