Monday 5 Things.....The Worth of a Life..... I found myself this past week thinking about life. A lot. A veritable roller coaster of working through some dark nights of the soul - and the general malaise and fog of despondency -…
Monday 5 Things.....285..... On this day in 1733, General James Oglethorpe rowed a boat up the Savannah river. He and a small group of 120 settlers, who arrived on the ship “Anne”, landed at Yamacraw Bluff (near what is now…
Monday 5 Things.....Think About It..... “I think. I am. I will.” One of my favorite quotes from Ayn Rand’s novella ‘Anthem”, a story about a society in which freedom, individual rights, values and thinking have been abolished. Today's M5T celebrates one of…
.....Etched In The Sky..... Some M5T’s come quickly to me. Others I simply need to digest for weeks, sometimes months. Some I agonize over, and others I simply relish rolling around ideas in my head, taking time to think through…
..... You, Inc. ..... I pointed the car south this past week and started to drive. A meandering day-journey along the awesome and beautiful Georgian low-country coast, barely a cloud in the sky, scouting locations for upcoming photo-shoots. A day spent…
.....More or Less..... Stepping in from an abnormally cold and snowy day (which for the record is one of the reasons I left Canada) in the SAV, while warming my hands on a ceramic chalice, I savored the taste of…
Five Words For A New Year….. Long time M5T’ers know that your scribe does not believe in New Year resolutions largely because of my belief that such resolutions tend to set one up for failure. I prefer to focus and…
Making A List, Checking It Twice..... I’m a planner by nature. A strategist by design. As such, I make lists. Copious amounts of lists, either in my head, or in files. Singing along to “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” in…
Monday 5 Things…..Pushing Through….. A rainy Thanksgiving Day gave me pause to simply sit and think. A luxury of late that I have been remiss in taking time for. Sipping too many absurdly priced, but greatly appreciated, Grande Americano's whilst…
Monday 5 Things…..Learning To Fly. Again….. I took occasion this past week to re-read one of my favorite books. Each page a reminder of the thrill of learning to soar, being true to yourself, flying in the face of conformity,…
Monday 5 Things…..Of Being Discarded….. How often have we discarded things or people in our lives without seeing other possibilities or hidden beauty? Today’s M5T looks at some discarded items and people that have left a legacy of magnificence…
Today marks some passages for “Monday 5 Things”, or as readers have come to know these musings, “M5T”. Six years ago this week, I wrote the first M5T from Tanzania while pondering life, marriage, faith, and business as the golden…
