Articles tagged: Things Observed
Wake Up To Living: Courageous Caregiving: Comfort for All Concerned
Posted: Sep 08, 2010
Kasey Gardiner, Greenhills field hockey shut out Dexter, 6-0, in the Dreadnaughts' first-ever varsity game
Posted: Sep 01, 2010Greenhills School's Kasey Gardiner and Dexter's Rylie Damm fight for the ball during the first half of the Gryphons' 6-0 win Wednesday in Ann Arbor. (Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com)Apparently, Kasey Gardiner's athletic talent isn't limited ... Read more »
The Associated Press: U.S. economic recovery in danger as firms, homebuyers cut back
Posted: Aug 25, 2010The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades. Read more »
Two birds, one stone
Posted: Aug 22, 2010Fly enough, and you learn to go brain dead when you have to. It’s sort of like time travel. One minute you’re bending to unlace your shoes, and the next thing you know you’re paying ... Read more »
Wildcrafting: the acorns are early, start saving up for winter now
Posted: Aug 17, 2010Seeing fallen acorns this week was startling, I was still in mid-summer mode with the heat and the humidity. The appearance of acorns is a clear indicator that fall is coming. If we were living ... Read more »
Better together than alone
Posted: Aug 15, 2010When you hang out at a medical clinic, you notice the thoughtful people around you sitting in prayerful silence, and you see scenes of pure marital devotion, a healthy mobile spouse pushing an immobilized one, ... Read more »
The end of life: when an important conversation is often a difficult one
Posted: Aug 08, 2010We want to be with others and family. We'd like to be mentally alert as much as possible. We'd like to avoid suffering, and we'd like to spend our last time doing stuff we care ... Read more »
Substantive conversations are key to happiness
Posted: Aug 01, 2010[S]ubstantive conversation seemed to hold the key to happiness for two main reasons: both because human beings are driven to find and create meaning in their lives, and because we are social animals who want ... Read more »
When less is more: Most of us would be happier by taking some things more slowly
Posted: Jul 25, 2010I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. —Thomas Jefferson Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. —Mae West Read more »
Opinion: Now is the time to end seniority-based teacher layoffs
Posted: Jul 18, 2010When I first received word that two of my teachers, widely regarded by fellow students as two of the finest teachers at Huron High School, were to be laid off while numerous other teachers known ... Read more »
Choosing to pay attention
Posted: Jul 18, 2010The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost ... Read more »
Give the gift of listening
Posted: Jul 11, 2010Communication is the most important skill in life. You spend years learning how to read and write, and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training have you had that enables you ... Read more »
The tyranny of fear
Posted: Jul 04, 2010[L]et me assert by firm belief that that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. . . . —Franklin D. Roosevelt I’d rather be singing in the face of my fear. —Libby ... Read more »
Finding our “sweet spot” in life
Posted: Jun 27, 2010We are all born with tremendous natural capacities, and that we lose touch with many of them as we spend more time in the world ... with the result that many people never connect with ... Read more »
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