First impressions, lasting imprint

YOU are a power projection platform (PPP). The military uses this phrase, PPP, to refer to the ability to deploy power as the basis of operational strength. Likewise, you are the platform for your message. How much authority do you project? Are you effectively expressing your intent? Does your appearance support or detract/distract from your communication? Sixteen years of school uniforms, then…

An act of creation

What are you dreaming for 2015? “…There is only one enduring spiritual insight and everything else follows from it: The visible world is an active doorway to the invisible world…Matter is, and has always been, the hiding place for the Spirit, forever offering itself to be discovered anew.” Fr Richard Rohr~ How might we find…

Have We Lost Our Sense of Community?

Sunday Worship was a whole different thing in this country 50 years ago.  I remember looking forward to going to Catholic Mass on Sunday.  I knew and loved every song we sang, I loved the beautiful churches of the parishes we belonged to and I even remember listening to the sermons and having favorite Priests…

The gifts you give are a reflection of you

Giving as an extension of you… by Patricia O’Gorman, PhD ’Tis the season, with lots of expectations of what you should do, how you should look, and what you should give. Instead of scouring catalogs, spending hours you don’t have online, or waiting in endless lines in stores, think outside the girly thoughts box—the one…