Bulding Community 2023

Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I scan them for access points for opportunity to affirm them or compliment them. This needs to happen in the first five seconds of meeting. If you love yourself and others, talk to me if you would like to develop this skill. I pondered the depths of my soul as I prepared to develop something meaningful to share in this blogpost. The inspiration came from a note I received this morning that said, “You are really kind. Thanks for making me feel warm.” I was ready to write. Here we go. The following are a few best practices for affirming friends and loved ones. Be Present. When with your friends and loved ones, be fully present with them.do not fidget like you want to be somewhere else. Don’t be buried in your phone or looking around like you cannot pay attention for seconds at the time. Don act as if you are in a hurry. Be present like you are really there with them and grateful to be with them in the present moment. Give of yourself to...

Candidates to New World All over planet Earth, people are emotionally secured by their sense of identity as a result of their citizenship, their cultural context, their social class, their community, their tribe, their team, or their family. Most humans desire to belong to or be a member of something greater than themselves. Most of us are born to groups; a nation, a religion, a patriarchy, a matriarchy. Some of us want more than the groups to which we are born. We set out to find or create or own. We seek our tribe or to build our tribe. The era of social media, does it enhance capacity for #meaningful #belonging, and #connections? Today, I ask you to take on the task of creating a new world choosing 7 persons in addition to yourself to journey to a new planet to give birth to a new civilization, a new world community. The Earth is dying and can no longer support life. 7 people are chosen to begin again. Choose 7 others of the personality profiles listed below to build a new world...

  Of all the superheroes, who are you? Maybe you’ve thought about this before.                                                           ---------------------- I share a mutual respect with a special soul that posed this question to me. Join me for my response. Our father told us stories when we were small children when it was time for bed. He filled our thoughts and hearts with the wonder of story and magic. ---------------------- I do not remember when I bought my first comic book. I do remember I could not wait to finish it to immediately begin to read it again. There was Superman, Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman from the now DCU. There was also Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, and Thor from the MCU. I fed on all their feats. While I understood they were not real, they inspired in me a deep desire to be present for people th...