five senses

Listening Your Way To Greatness

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Being one of the senses, hearing is simply assumed. We never give it another thought because we have never had to. 

It’s also automatic. In your conscious moments you are either speaking or you are listening. End of story. Except it isn’t. Consider these four examples of the subject at hand.

You are tent camping in the desert and mountain area of the American West or deep in a remote forest in the American East. You have every reason to say this is about as quiet as it can get, but you find out it isn’t. 

You hear the hooting … Read the rest “Listening Your Way To Greatness”

Time Out For The Timeless

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You might think I’m making this up, recalling at random some selected situations just to prove a point. But I’m not.

At this moment, the feelings I’m expressing here are authentic, spontaneous, and of course, logical. That’s because all the unannounced pieces quickly fell into place. I wish they would do that more often — just sneak up on my blindside and surprise me.

This time I invite you to join me as I sit here and look through floor to celling glass doors that extend twelve feet across the almost entire side of the living room. Immediately beyond is … Read the rest “Time Out For The Timeless”