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Imagine getting in a cab only to realize that your ‘thin thread’ is a cab driver who connects you to the person who will launch your career!
Discover how ‘thin threads’ are everywhere – even in a smile or a word that connects two people who share a dark secret.
Is it possible that your luggage can be the ‘thin thread’ that can save your life?
“Comfortable with uncertainty” is the title of a chapter in the book “Broken Open” - by one of my favorite authors – Elizabeth Lesser of the Omega Institute.
Elizabeth Lesser studied some Tibetan spiritual authors, and one master particular taught what broke him ‘open’ through his many losses and unsettling experiences. During the years that Ms. [...]
Preface to upcoming special edition of Thin Threads – Joy & Inspiration
As life offers up its twists and turns, we learn that being happy is not always a “given.” But on those days when achieving happiness is a stretch, I remind myself that the way we choose to see the world is the world we [...]
“You can shed tears that he/she is gone or you can smile because he/she has lived.” (a Jewish saying upon death)
Our soon-to-be published special edition on Grief and Renewal is most certainly a celebration of life. Although it contains stories of untold grief, the authors find the smile in his or her heart as a [...]
As life offers up its twists and turns, we learn that being happy is not always a “given.” But on those days when achieving happiness is a stretch, I remind myself that the way we choose to see the world is the world we see —and I choose to see it through laughter, learning and love.
Those [...]
Everyone loves a good story! And although a story can entertain us, it also is a powerful tool that allows a writer to transform a reader’s way of thinking in order to let him or her see the world from a new perspective — perhaps even tilting the view a couple of degrees to the [...]
Today I read this article from Heal your Life’s blog that demonstrates compassion in a big way – and a pet lovers way. I always found that people who have dogs tend to be nurturers, and all animal lovers and those – like the woman in this article, (who was destitute until a dog changed [...]
Kisses for Mr. Castle
One day and one teacher changed my life
Terri Elders
“Give me a kiss to build a dream on, and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss.”
Louis Armstrong
By eighth grade, at age twelve, I’d pretty much bought into the common credo that girls couldn’t succeed at math or science. I still have my [...]
The Hat
How a challenge changed the
student and the teacher
Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow
It started as a typical first class session of the new semester at Wright College in Chicago. Twenty-five faces were staring at me with the fear typical of college students who would prefer to be anywhere in the world other than a [...]
This is actually the title of a new book that I just ordered, by Michael Ellsberg http://www.eyegazing.com/I always believed that the eyes are a window to the soul, and in the kind of connections I like making with others – the eyes are our bridge to our ‘gut’ or ‘instinctual’ bond with others. I was [...]
This story – about my best friend, Denise Bar Aharon’s brother David, will be one of the stories coming out in either our Thin Threads of Grief & Renewal or our Fall Anthology. I met Denise 30 years ago and that itself is a Thin Thread mini-story – she was traveling from Los Angelos and [...]
