a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

“Whenever you see somebody it may be the last time you see them, you just don’t know,” observed actor Orlando Bloom on a recent podcast. “So make it great. What do you got to lose? Just make [that time] great.” When was the last occasion that you made the time you spent with someone great?…

“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” observed leadership expert Peter Drucker. We often worry about what will happen next. Such anxieties usually arise from the feeling that events occur in our lives which are out of our control. Drucker helpfully reminds us we can create our future by the choices…

I was watching a Tom Petty documentary about the making of the album Wildflowers called “Somewhere You Feel Free.”  In one scene they displayed the board where they kept track of the progress of each song. For example, had they recorded the vocals, bass part, drums, etc. At the very end of the board Tom Petty and…

I take the subway to work and wear Apple AirPods to listen to music. The AirPods come in a case and I have a routine of putting them back in the case when I get off the subway and onto the platform. Every night I put them on a table near our kitchen, along with…

The Venice Biennale is one of the major art and cultural festival held throughout the year. Alex Marshall reported a week ago how, “Archie Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist… created an installation including a monumental family tree, [that] won the top prize.” Artists from 85 countries competed for this coveted prize. Moore’s piece was called…

I am in Vermont and yesterday entered a promising art gallery.  A woman behind the counter explained this was a collective of 13 local artists. I looked around quickly and said, “everything looks wonderful” but then more or less kept moving through the store. She then saw me standing over a display of earrings and…