Category overcoming negativity

Are You Outraged?

Outrage! You see expressions of outrage everywhere. It’s on social media, television, and you can find it in your neighborhood. We seem to be outraged about something, all the time. Therein lies the problem. We’ve cheapened outrage by overuse. Not all outrage is created equal. There is righteous indignation and then there is the self-possessed […]

Who’s Living Under Your Bridge?

Bridges and those who dwell under them. Bridges are strange little things, when you stop and take a moment to consider them. Bridges force you to take a narrow path, over some (usually man-made) inconvienence to get to that special place you need to go. The route is direct, quick and utterly devoid of character […]

The Toxic Trap

Toxic You find a dark place with warning signs or a rusted barrel with a bio-hazard label, you know what to do.  Run, in the opposite direction, because that is some nasty crap that will cause you irreversible harm. Simple, right?  The very image ignites a  fight or flight reflex in your lizard brain and […]