What You Will Think About Today
The “father of air conditioning,” Willis Haviland Carrier, claims he had a flash of genius while waiting for a train. He began thinking about temperature and humidity, and within moments he had a scientific method to chill the air. Back then, you couldn’t distract yourself from thinking so easily. I remember Carrier all day […]
I Just Wanted to Remind You
This morning, I wanted to take you someplace to remind you how beautiful the world can be. Even when there’s heartache, somewhere a rainbow shimmers in a dark sky. Yesterday, we drove to the Rocky Mountains. My camera’s very old and not fancy, but look at this! Rocky Mountain Rainbow And just in front of […]
What My Daughter Hid Behind the Piano
I’m sitting in my rocking chair, taking just a moment to catch my breath and talk to God, when I notice something sparkling in the corner of the room. It’s actually sparkling from behind the piano. Someone has hidden something back there. It’s my daughter’s diary–the one with the glitter cover–that she asked for last […]
What We’ve Known For a Long Time
I read an article on the bus yesterday that recounts the results of a number of happiness studies. Researchers want to know if happiness is something we experience or something we think. I love reading articles like this. Once again, research proves that when we think about our experiences we can put the day in […]
The Throw Back
There you are, eating a burrito or picking at a hangnail, and all of a sudden, it happens: You have a thought. I wonder about this. I read recently, in a Richard Selzer account, that “a surgeon knows the landscape of the brain but does not know how a thought is made.” Does anyone? Does […]