Pause: Releasing

Pause: Releasing

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    As the months and days and weeks and minutes rapidly visit and depart, what have we accomplished during their time? What words have we...
Pause: Receiving

Pause: Receiving

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    I try to welcome what is there but rarely noticed. Throughout these pages we’ve highlighted one word at a time. The hope has been to...
Pause: Reading

Pause: Reading

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    I place my order of a sandwich plate and a water. I pause and begin letting the authors provide their own words of wonder. Annie Dillard...
Pausing

Pausing

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    Let us listen. Let us be silent. And listen. But how? Noticing, as we considered in the previous chapter, is a start. Noticing our...
Pause: Noticing

Pause: Noticing

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    Realizing time refuses to slow down—the pauses depend on us to choose to rest a moment and notice life. Talking on the phone to a young...
Pause: Memorizing

Pause: Memorizing

-Today’s blog is from the book Pause: The Secret to a Better Life, One Word at a Time. Pick up your copy on Amazon or HERE.    My brain damage makes it tough to remember. I do remember when I could remember so much better. Names and numbers. Songs and passages of...