Wishing on a star you can see is always a good idea. But sometimes we shoot our biggest plans-for-what’s-to-come so aggressively that they simply cannot sink in to these close targets. And then what? Good thing there are always stars beyond. It’s the farther stars, the distant ones, that we can barely see or cannot…
Read moreInner Child. This child. You.
This morning, as my daughter was getting ready for her first day of second grade at a new school — the second new school in two years — I listened to her tell me how she was feeling excited, but also nervous and scared. She was afraid of not fitting in, afraid of not…
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For Martha Karen Halverson, 1916-2017. My name is Marit Martha. I am the daughter of Martha Karen’s oldest daughter, Martha Jeanell. Among the Marthas, I am the third. And I’m honored. In grandma’s eleven-pearl necklace of grandchildren, strung one-by-one by age, I am also the third, and in that, in being one among her grandchildren,…
Read moreThe Process is Important.
My whole life I have been trained to set a goal, aim for it, and make it happen. In school. In sports. In business. Lots of us have. That’s how we roll as a society and a culture. As a world. If you’re going to race an Ironman, for instance, you pick a race first….
Read moreIn memoriam: my mom’s 20 laws to live by.
My mom passed away suddenly a few weeks ago. At the service to celebrate her life, I shared these words. Mom has taught me so much in my 44 years. Some things she has told me outright. Some she has taught by example. Some I have picked up through attentive observation, in the way that,…
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