Category: General

Hello!  Happy Labor Day holiday weekend. I’ve not written a blog post since last year.  A lot has happened since then, of course.  For all of us, and for me personally.  I won’t go into all that, but let’s just say I am absolutely living in the Mystery of life, and learning to embrace it…

“You think too much.”  “You’re overthinking it.”  Has anyone said that about you?  Oh, if I could have…mmm…let’s make it $100, since I’m making it up anyway, for every time I’ve heard that, I would be retired.  If people have said that about you, how does it make you feel to hear those words?  Since…

After writing my last post about self-knowledge vs. self-awareness (which you can find on my website fjyr.life if you didn’t get a chance to read it already), I started thinking about more close-but-not-quite-the-same comparisons.  It was the last day of August and I was on a hike at the time, with Lola, my pup.  I wondered, was…

How well do you know yourself?   I have always studied people and myself, abundantly curious about the human condition. In the process, I have encountered multiple personality analysis philosophies.  All of these have helped with self-knowledge, for me and millions of others. But do they help with self-awareness, and what’s the difference?   To put…

I’ve been reading a lot of great sayings and quotes on Facebook lately.  Most of those attracting my attention have to do with relationships and letting go of people in your life who are toxic, and how when the wrong people are gone, the right things start to happen.  What exactly is a toxic relationship? …