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By Robyn Young
"Musick has Charms to soothe a savage Breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
Music moves.
It lilts, flows, rises in crescendo, then fa...
By Robyn Young
I had a conversation with a friend the other day that ended in hurt feelings—my hurt feelings. Sometimes you can sense tension building in a relationship before things boil over. Not t...
By Robyn Young
Years ago, I watched the movie What About Bob?, a comedy about a man named Bob (Bill Murray), a deeply paranoid New Yorker who’s afraid of just about everything. His fears are so overw...
By Robyn Young
I saw a comic in the paper a few weeks ago. It showed a delinquent-looking teen standing in a school hallway, eyeing the “in case of fire” alarm next to him. In the next frame, he pull...
By Robyn Young
Perpetual Transmutation.
Let’s break it down:
Perpetual: occurring continually, continuing forever
Trans- (prefix): so or such as to change or transfer
Mutation: a significant and bas...
By Robyn Young
I’m fascinated by the process of bringing a dream to life. The more I reflect on it, the more I’m reminded of my pregnancies—there are so many parallels. It’s no coincidence that this ...
By Robyn Young
Recently, I had a conversation with a friend that didn’t go the way I had hoped. I was deeply hurt and couldn’t seem to shake it. The pain settled in and soon turned into irritability—...
By Robyn Young
I had an interesting experience while listening to the radio recently. A song I’d never heard before came on—a story about a man facing his own mortality. He was asked how he reacted w...
I received an email the other day that was SO appreciated, because even though I may have "written the book" on it, I still have to learn and re-learn the principles sometimes over and over again. (Ye...
Be anxiously engaged in a good cause—but pace yourself. Because life isn’t a sprint… it’s a marathon.
Have you ever been accused of working too hard or running too fast?
Sometimes fast is good. But ...
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