by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 16, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This is part three of three parts. See part one “cry it out” and part two “falling” Human beings have long admired and envied a bird’s ability to soar through the skies. I imagine that this initiated the design of the kite, and reaches its pinnacle in space...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 9, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This is part two of three parts. See last week’s part one, “cry it out” In 2001, the rock band, Creed, released their album Weathered that featured a song that climbed into the top ten of the Billboard music charts. “One Last Breath” has stayed with me in the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 31, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I experience one of life’s greatest pleasures when a child hugs me. Warm fuzzies head to toe in less than two seconds. When I was a child, hugging adults usually conveyed a familial or extended family relationship, and joy for the adult’s presence. And like many other...
by Monica A. Coleman | Jan 19, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I’ve long felt that the Christmas season begins too early and ends too soon. This is not a religious complaint. It’s a commercial complaint. In the consumer culture of the United States, Christmas decorations appear in drug stores and grocery markets before Halloween....
by Monica A. Coleman | Dec 17, 2010 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
The American holiday of Thanksgiving kicks off a season where a spirit of gratitude pervades society. From the media to faith communities, the notion of thankfulness abounds. I’ve always found it problematic that the value of gratitude is so closely tied to an...
