Tag archive: connection
Thoughts about friendship …
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
Are you OK?
It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.
Looking for stories from the arena of life …
Jonathan Gottschal suggests that “story is the grease and glue of society” (in The Storytelling Animal). He says stories unite people – pulling them together to connect through common values and ideas. What’s your part in that?
Thoughts about communication …
Science may never come up with …
Thoughts about conversations …
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected.
How to deal with loneliness at work
Loneliness is a condition that can affect us socially and professionally. Its impact can be significant. It is suggested that loneliness can reduce your lifespan in a similar way to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or greater than that associated with obesity. So what can we do about it?
Thoughts about loneliness …
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
~ Dorothy Day
Thoughts about connection …
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard and valued;
The place we call home
Working overseas opens you up to change. You see new ways of doing things. You experience a new culture. You try a new language. For the time we are there, we call it home. That is, until we move to the next one. In this flexible lifestyle, what do we call home?
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