Tag: Appreciation

  • 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…

  • Across the Bridge of Self Reflection

    Across the Bridge of Self Reflection

    One of the most profound gifts of insight I have received in this lifetime came through a 26-year career in picture framing. Day after day, each design session revealed the same truth. A single work of art could be seen and experienced differently based entirely on the colors and textures you surrounded it with. And…