Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Life Lessons

  • What Happened When I Started Olding

    Photo by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay Real life happened, that’s what It was a great day earlier this year when I decided I was done adulting and ready to start olding. With olding, you’re no longer compromising with the phony expectations of the “Real World.” Instead, you’re just grown up and ready to grow, by God. So…

  • Why You Don’t Take A “No” From Someone Who Can’t Give A “Yes”

    Typical naysayer. Photo by Ryan Franco on Unsplash And it’s totally okay I wasted a little time today because I forgot the simplest negotiating principle ever: don’t take a “no” from someone in an organization who’s not empowered to say “yes.” It all worked out, but I felt foolish — I should know better than to ask someone to…

  • Surviving Message Lockdown

    Photo by Niels Smeets on Unsplash You’re not alone. You’re just not listening. I recently spent some time trying to cheer up a friend. If you already know I failed, you are smarter than I was in that moment. But please don’t judge too harshly, because even though I really do know better, sometimes I still…

  • Please stop interrup —

    Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The fierce urgency of [unintelligible] My mother often interrupted me while I was talking to tell me not to interrupt others while they were talking. Once I boldly responded that she had, in fact, interrupted me to tell me that. But only once, because my mother was not to be…

  • Gratitude Workarounds

    Photo by Chris Ensey on Unsplash Because the wheel’s still spinning By now we probably all know the terrific Zen tale that teaches us never to assume we know whether events will turn out to be good for us or bad for us. The story goes like this: A man’s horse runs away — bad news! The horse returns,…

  • The Real Reason We Don’t Get Along

    Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash We’re living backward. Americans, they say, are ideologically and culturally split down the middle, just like that cheap pair of pants I foolishly bent down in that time. Since the Founders, we have always enjoyed a lively back-and-forth exchange of ideas, but now it appears the division is becoming personal…

  • Is This Life Broken or What?

    Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash I couldn’t tell from the manual I’m getting real tired of trying to get Life to work right, and I’ll bet you are too. So I complained to the Management. Everybody assumes this Life thing is the best thing ever. It’s a powerhouse product; a gamechanger. It provides us with sunshine…