Category: Connection

  • What’s Your Conversational Legacy?

    What’s Your Conversational Legacy?

    “Melissa, someone could become enlightened watching a piece of trash roll past them.” These were the provocative words of the guiding teacher at the meditation center where I practice. At the time, his words felt a bit irreverent, but they lingered with me. My fourth-grade teacher was the first to say, “Melissa, you have a…

  • What’s Hidden?

    What’s Hidden?

    It has been decades since I have been laughed at… And when it recently happened at work, I found myself both confused and aware of a sensitive child still residing within me. At the time, I was helping a pair of young women, who I suspect would be considered Gen Z, when one of them…

  • What Are You Looking For?

    What Are You Looking For?

    Have you ever watched a baby stare at its own hand with utter fascination? I feel this way most of the time. People fascinate me. Words fascinate me. The way life orchestrates just the right set of circumstances that can lead to personal evolution…FASCINATING! A short time ago, I started a new part time job…