

Adaptability
Don’t we get attached to our playbooks too? We think this is how a day should turn out, or how a planned vacation should go, etc.


Discipline and Reward
What Mom modeled was a healthy interplay between discipline and reward, or between activities we must do and those that are optional . . .


Temporary Obliviousness
Obliviousness, the state of being unaware of what’s going on, can be a great antidote to the barrage of disturbing news, etc


How Agitators Help
Are you inclined to curse that agitator? This would be understandable but perhaps there’s a blessing in the curse.


Make Art, Revisited
In retrospect, I see how the most consistent thing I did to metabolize my grief was to make art.