Do you notice when you have a dream come true... 

• even a little dream...
• your thoughts are transformed.

​At least for a minute, an hour, a day…

Now - turn that around.
Transform your thoughts BEFORE
Your dream comes true.

Watch what happens.
Thoughts take you to your future.

So very often...
A father’s love is a mystery to us... 
...for the first and many years of our life.
As a child, we may see that love as our most special. 
Or, as 'tough love'.
As we grow, we find ourselves an adult,
and begin to understand the frailties of adulthood.
As years go by, we experience loving in a marriage,
and with our own children.
If we are very, very fortunate,
we finally reach a point of a broad and amazing understanding...
...of our father’s love.
What it made us.
What we too often missed as life swirled by.
How soon we had to miss him.
How we yearned for the wisdom 
We never asked about, never gained.
And, how our Daddy was as frail as we,
how beloved he truly was to us, and
how we must learn wisdom as did he!


Love,

This spring morning, take the time to notice the morning dew on the blades of grass.
The fragrance of roses (like those in our garden) and other spring flowers.
The unfolding of those blossoms.
Pay attention - take the time - it is ecstasy.

Spending eight years in Abu Dhabi, UAE, we learned how much the English cultures are steeped in the tradition of a hot cup of tea.  It is a love affair, for sure.

Afternoons in the clinic found us alternating between afternoon coffee and a cuppa (meaning tea). It depended on which parents were there, and what they chose to have served to them, while we drank the same and shared memories, home, experiences, and love.

Flying to and from Abu Dhabi and Texas, I got to enjoy a wonderful cup of tea, served in a porcelain cup with a saucer and a little tiny tea bag bowl, a touch of cream and sometimes a bit of honey.

Today, take a moment-
Pause.

Deep breath, belonging, loving. 

A Coffee?
A Cuppa?

Either way, share love.

Think about it:
“The quality of your life is proportional to the amount and kind of UNCERTAINTY with which you can live."
    -Tony Robbins

Again, think about it:
When you feel confusion, uncertainty, that in itself is a sort of clearness.
And, a path to a quality life. 

Love,

“In the most dire situation, in the best situation,  if you just wait, the good in it will reveal itself.”
  ~ Rush Limbaugh, Dec 23, 2020

Isn’t it a TOUGH thing, to WAIT?
    - to wait on others?
    - to wait on yourself as you learn and grow?
    - to wait on your children to become?
    - to wait on ‘things to happen’?
    - to wait to ‘find out’?

So, plan, pray, and act toward the result you want.
Set your goals, plan, pray and act.
​
In love,

Think about the energy that becomes your thoughts.
Think about how the thoughts become your actions.
Like decisions you make.
Like what you say in your conversations.
Like what you eat.
What you buy.
Even what you hear.
Frame every thought, every word, every action in love.
Then, every action will be framed in love.
Your world will fill with love.
Like what people say to you.
Like what people feel when you are with them.
Like what you feel no matter what.

Framed in love, 
Acting in love.

In you 

In your smile I feel joy.
In your calm I find peace.
In your light I learn love.

​Some years ago, Jeff Olson published a book called, “The Slight Edge”.

This book had a huge impact on me, as I followed his point that we are always
—always — moving along a trajectory, either in a positive, or in a negative direction.
There is no standing still.

The Slight Edge for Dan Jansen in the ’94 Olympics speed skating was a win by 29 one hundredths of a SECOND.  That is 0.29 second.  Less than a third of a SECOND,\\

As Jeff Olson said, that’s a very Slight Edge!

Whether you are talking in your life, in your work, or play, 
the difference in accomplishing, 
the difference in winning and losing, 
the difference in positive or negative trajectory 
is a very SLIGHT EDGE.

Would you like $1 million dollars right now, or a penny a day, doubled each day for one month?
One penny, doubled every day for a month adds up to $10,737,418…and 24 cents.
Increase your efforts each day - in your family and friend relationships, in work, in play, by just 3/10 of 1%, adding 3/10 of 1% each day, and by the end of 5 years, you will have moved along your Slight Edge 1600%!

Just in a year you’d have improved 100%!

Your nutrition?
Your weight?
Your health?
Your family?
Loving others? 

Imagine - after 1 week…1 month…1 year later…
You’ll be living a different life.

Get on and stay on the Slight Edge.
Happy 2026!


Love,