Category Archives: 7 Ways

I’ve been carrying many things with me over the last 46 years of my life, some literal and some figurative. On a walk on a trail today I came to an overlook with various flat rocks that I lay down on to release however many of the figurative things I’d been carrying for however longContinue reading “#9 – Love the Earth”

I’ve been engaged in a coaching program and one of the adages that’s been mentioned is the one about giving a person a fish vs teaching them how to fish (and why the ladder seems overall wiser) and I keep coming back to the same reasoning, how about both? So many of the challenges manyContinue reading “#9 – Love Your Community”

I had the opportunity recently to experience a gathering of individuals in a local church space for an evening of Ecstatic Dance. The theme of the night was “Play” and the age range of people in attendance was infant up to 70 so I knew there would be plenty of exploring and fun – whatContinue reading “#8 – Love Everything”

I have two cats and in my home there are four cats, the other two belong to my older daughter that’s living at home again for an undetermined time. The work of introducing mine to hers has not been easy and has ultimately resulted in the house being divided into two areas where the furryContinue reading “#8 – Love Your Work”

I start and end each day with the words “Thank you”. Sometimes I’ll spend time voicing specific thanks to whatever comes to mind, while at other times the two words are all that’s needed. This morning I’ve been giving thanks to my physical body – in 46 years and with all that its experienced IContinue reading “#8 – Love Your Self”

No matter where you live, there’s probably a park of some sort near you. Perhaps it’s even a national park, there are 63 in the U.S. alone (with legislation in the Senate creating a 64th having passed in 2022)! The picture above is from a waterfall in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, where I hadContinue reading “#8 – Love the Earth”

I was listening to this podcast recently and was reminded that while we, as a global society, are no stranger to conflict and how to resolve it, what we do seem to have less “knowledge” about is how to prevent it from continuing to occur. In some ways we really can’t know EVERYTHING that’s onContinue reading “#8 – Love the Unknown”

With 8 billion people now inhabiting the planet, communities are everywhere! I’ve been considering all the different ones that I’ve been a part of lately since the month I’m writing this in marks the 30th year I’ve lived in Pittsburgh, longer than anywhere else I’ve lived in my life. But something I’ve realized over allContinue reading “#8 – Love Your Community”

Through a series of recent developments I’ve welcomed two additional feline friends into my home and while they are both male to my male and female couple, the biggest difference is that the white boy who has come to live with me is just a wee 5 months old (and was recently neutered which isContinue reading “#8 – Love What’s Fun”

There are so many things we will never know. For some, including me, the idea of loving the unknown seems rather preposterous and I’ll admit, this “way to love” is probably the most challenging one to address; mainly because it involves hope and trust more than anything else as part of the process and theseContinue reading “#7 – Love the Unknown”