Last summer, I watched wren families move into a nesting box. First, they took out what was already in the box. They were so industrious. For hours the wren would pop in and then pop out with old nesting material in her beak. She’d toss her head to throw it and then pop back in [...]
We’ve passed the halfway point in our Say Yes year. It’s time to look at how that’s going. A crucial thing that we are learning is that in order to say yes to what we want, we have to say no to things we don’t want. That’s not too hard. But sometimes we have to [...]
Sometimes to figure out what we want to say yes to, we have to first learn to say no. We can all look back on our lives and remember times when we wish we would’ve made different choices. When perhaps we should have said no, instead of yes, or yes instead of no. After a [...]