Strength in weakness. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.  The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart and a hard heart is a weak heart. As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. A good rule for discussion is to use hard … Continue reading Softness

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once. Apart from overwhelming anxiety and debilitating panic attacks, I think I’m pretty well adjusted. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.  I … Continue reading Overwhelming

Common sense is like deodorant, those that need it the most never used it. Success is a great deodorant, it takes away all your past smells. Keep reaching for the stars. But, please, get a better deodorant. If your deodorant makes you smell worse, it’s not the deodorant, it’s you. It starts with you.  Winning … Continue reading Grooming

I could settle down but I can’t settle. Some people are settling down, some people are settling, some have been settled and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. If you’re not willing to risk the unusual, you will settle for the ordinary. Whatever happened to settling up? At my age, I’m … Continue reading Settling Down

Never let an old flame burn you twice. I will take what is mine with fire and blood. Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life. If you have an opinion about my life, … Continue reading The Flame of Love