People say just choose to be happy…or grateful…or yadda, yadda (enter your positive emotion here). No doubt how you respond to situations is a choice, but it is not as easy as this advice would make it seem. There is some work, or more accurately some intentionality, involved. It’s a practice. We have to exercise our gratitude muscles to make them responsive and resilient.

No Boundaries. That’s what the bumper sticker on the highway said. Conversely, people often say they need healthy boundaries. What does that mean? Boundaries are often a place of exchange or transition. We see this in nature. The richest diversity in life is most often in the transition zones between habitats or biomes. What about boundaries or transition zones in our lives? They are often disconcerting, but after the face we see how fertile they were.