The jungle drums say we all have an emotional life. Smoke signals from the mountain top say every moment in a person’s life has a feeling, a rhythm, a flow, or a tone. Emotions may have been the first language which we communicated with ourselves and others. At any age courage is needed to maneuver the challenges from infancy to adulthood. Managing yourself in the world is a lifelong practice. Seasons of life change: retirement, health concerns, family transitions, social iso

On Instagram, I see tattooed prisoners at The Center for Confinement of Terrorist (CECOT) in El Salvador. Young men in the prime of their lives, dead ended in a harsh prison where there is no hope of escape, no future. Men born into poverty and a world of violence. Then, the next post flips to a stark contrast, middle class people in suburban America stealing packages off the front porch, then becoming indignant when the package blows up spraying paint on them. Both groups ar

The World You See A few years ago, I was in Rockford, Illinois, an idyllic leafy, tree-filled city, north of Chicago, close to Kenosha,...

Turning points in life are milestones in our life experience. Happiness or sadness, neither lasts forever. The pendulum of life swings...