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

Willie Nelson is known for writing songs like Crazy, Always on My Mind, and On the Road Again. This week I came across his song Energy Follows Thought. The lyric reads: Imagine what you want / Then get out of the way Remember energy follows thought / So be careful what you say Be careful…

Last night I watched an inspiring 30 for 30 ESPN episode about the Baltimore Colts marching band that kept playing for 12 years after the Colts left town for Indianapolis.  As one website reports, “In 1984, the erratic… owner of the Baltimore Colts, Robert Irsay, made a… decision to move the team… [and in the…

In a recent New Yorker article, John Seabrook wrote about Johnny Marr and a book he published about his 132 guitars. Marr co-wrote songs for the 1980’s rock group the Smiths, played in the early 2000’s with Modest Mouse, and won an Oscar for his performance on Billie Eilish’s James Bond theme, “No Time To Die.” A…

“Nobody will stop you from creating,” said Kurt Vonnegut. “Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.” If we believe our soul is a divine gift created by the God who created the universe, then it makes sense as we chose to facilitate and participate in creating something…

We visited a Picasso exhibit at the MOMA depicting work he did one summer painting in a garage in Fontainebleau, France. In the exhibit I read how Picasso said, “There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Then one may remove all appearance of reality… [because] the idea of the object has…

I saw a play last night called the Aristocrats where one of the characters had nurtured a childhood memory that was proven to be false. The character he was discussing this with was empathetic how uncomfortable his revelation was, and made the comment sometimes there is “truth beyond scrutiny.” Meaning, perhaps in some way his…