Note: This blog was written during Dr. Allen’s trip last week. I’m visiting the North Shore of Lake Superior. The waves are up and crashing onto the granite rocks after yesterday’s rain. The wind is stronger today. The trees are just starting to fill...
Recently I discovered the poem Stubborn Ounces by author, poet, and psychologist Bonaro W. Overstreet. It captures perfectly the way I am choosing to act in my life. And it captures the spirit of active hope – and why it’s so important to understand the...
A colleague of mine recently said that the only thing we can actually control is how we think. As individuals, we have many things we can influence, but few things we can control. The paradox is that the less we can control, the more control we attempt. In his book...
As I was walking out of my house today, I noticed the new green shoots that are starting to show up in my garden. It was a surprise to see that these shoots had grown over 2 inches since yesterday, but the recent warm weather and rain created perfect conditions for a...
I was visiting Grand Island, Nebraska for work earlier this month, which happened to be the beginning of the spring sandhill crane migration. Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes – 80% of all the cranes on the planet, by the way – congregate...
I may be taking a bit of liberty with this old joke here, but chickens and bees have one thing in common – they are both living entities. Our relationships with chickens and bees are very different as we have both diverging patterns of behavior, and different...
