[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”And back to intentional…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] As Summer 2015 draws to a close, my mind has been reflecting on the journey all previous posts on this blog have taken as we’ve gone through, in brief, LDG’s Circle of Life Mentoring Model, beginning here: In our linear world where “B” follows “A” […]
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[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
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”With great anticipation, I placed my index finger on the left-clicker of the mouse and pressed.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Only a few more seconds before the next screen came up and my questions would get answered. I would finally have the map to navigate my life and vocation. Instead, when the next
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘What’s That?’…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …the soft, high voice inquires repeatedly. Or “Who is that?” over and over again. My granddaughter is only 19 months old, but she is an extremely deliberate learner of everything around her. (I’m intentionally learning my neighbors’ names, just so I can introduce her without the awkwardness
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Chicken Fat.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Do you remember it? It is also known as the “Youth Fitness Song.” In 1962 President John F. Kennedy commissioned Broadway composer Meridith Wilson to write a theme song for the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness (thanks Wikipedia). Its first two verses may inspire some spontaneous calisthenics.
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[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.
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We all want to live in wisdom.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This allow us to be good mentors to others. To live in wisdom, we must learn from our elders, gleaning all that we can from their experiences. We also need to consider what the younger generations can teach us. Otherwise, our learning
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[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
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[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
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[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,
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[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
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”So Wes, why did you choose me to write about the advantages of growing older?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] After all, I’m young and getting younger by the day! OK, so the years are adding up, but that doesn’t mean I can’t choose to be younger. I also work with older people all
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“Younger people just don’t want to listen anymore.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] That lament was voiced to me by a relatively successful retired businessman several weeks ago. “They are all just off in their own worlds doing their own thing. How come you seem to have so many younger folk talking with you?”
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I recall a seminary student in a dilemma.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I was his professor, assigned to oversee his mentoring experience. The student sought my help. His elderly mentor had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and would be unable to “make do” on his commitment. I knew this mentor. He was
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My Father will turn 100 in eight weeks…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …at least that’s the best guess we have of his age. They didn’t do nice, tidy birth certificates in the 1915 Ozarks. Mom is 91. All nine siblings and I have had the privilege of walking with them through the Third3rd
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Two ings will help you stay alive!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] If you are thinking at all, then I know you will be able to come up with more “ing” words than I am going to talk about here. In fact, let me know what you come up with…all thoughts on “ings” are
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Our concern must be to live while we are alive…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to conform to eternal definitions of who and what we are. Wise words from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross As we begin to take some
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”…an interview with Gary and Jorie Gulbranson” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It was late summer of 1973 when my wife, Judy, and I met Gary and Jorie Gulbranson. They were newlyweds. We had been married for over six years. Gary and I were beginning grad school in Denver, and both of we couples
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”When I grow up I want to be _________.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I watched as a room full of rowdy 8th graders took the stage. An adventuresome, excited presence filled the room as each kid glided across the floor as their name was called to be given a diploma and a “congratulations
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Laura Ingalls Wilder has enriched three generations of my family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] My wife and I read the Little House on the Prairie series in our childhood and early in our marriage, we bought the whole set of nine books. It is worn and dog-eared now, having been read by my
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