Who doesn’t want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters…that people matter.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I’m paying attention to what I have rather than what’s missing.

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it’s...

When your spouse is talking; turn off the television. When your child is talking turn off the world.

Huh?” I say.

The world is in sore need of good listeners. And in our own lives, it’s amazing to recognize just how valuable listening can be for us. How many mistakes have you made because you didn’t...

I don’t like phones. You can’t be sure people are paying attention to you when you’re talking to them.

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the...

She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their...