the ideas cafe

You'll never guess what we found under the ideas cafe tree?  An unreleased episode from Christmas 2020!!!  If you've ever wondered what John thinks about Hallmark movies, you've just won the "Did he really just say that? Lottery."

Giving and receiving personal/professional critique is dangerously important work.

Does forgiveness have a place in our lives and in our society?

Shopping carts.  What you do with them in the parking lot might have something to say about who you really are!

Right here...right now...between the inhale and exhale.  It's the place where life is found.

Sometimes serendipidy is best left a mystery.

Only poopie babies like change.  It's true.  So how do we make real change stick?

Managing our own is perhaps one of lifes greatest challenges.

When either/or simply isn't the best question.

Call it chemistry.  Call it vibing. There is no denying that we are drawn to certain things about others.

Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.

What happens at the table SHOULDN'T stay at the table.

What would it look like if we embraced our fear rather than ran from it?

Careful.  Careless. Life.  Death.  Pleasure and pain.  Words are so much more than the letters strung together to make sounds.

The opposite of love is not hate.

Why carry someone else's pain?  And how?

"Given the choice to go back and get rid of all the painful times…I wouldn’t do it. Why? Those were the only things that strengthened me.”

It's time to quit dropping the IF BOMBS on each other!

Do you really want to go back to normal?  Has the Covid-19 experience created character in you, or revealed what was already there?