Reflections On the Art of Increasing Joy, Meaning and Belonging In Daily Living
The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. This is the fourth installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 4. The Anatomy of Pain Pain associated with major loss goes through three stages: First, it utterly destroys us. In time, many people develop …
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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. This is the third installment. Previous installments can be found here. ——————————————————— 3. The Miracle of We The essence of life is relationships. A palpable energy is felt in relationships that American philosopher Ken Wilber calls …
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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. This is the second installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 2. The Simple Feeling of Being Without conscious effort, we transition from embryo to baby to child, then to adolescent, adult, and finally, elder. …
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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. This is the first installment. The preface to the book can be found here. —————————————————————— 1. Introduction Shortly after the birth of our first child, I took up running. Dan was born with myelomeningocele, a serious …
As I restarted my weekly blog posts, I just realized that the most recent post had not been sent to subscribers. Here is a link to that post. https://tim-coats.com/2024/09/08/the-secret-within-2/
My summer sabbatical from weekly blog posts was energizing. After several false starts, I finally started progressing on my new book, The Secret Within, which explores the challenge of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. As promised, I’ll be sharing draft installments on this blog. This week, I’m sharing the preface to the book. …
Like a movie, life has specific scenes that stick in our minds. Like this one: It was Springtime 1973. I was driving north on Geyer Road in my hometown of Kirkwood, Missouri. A high school friend was riding shotgun. We were Seniors. Soon, friends would disperse like dandelion seeds. As we approached Kirkwood Park, my …
This past week, I lost a business mentor and good friend, Dr. Richard T. Crowder. Dr. Crowder served as the Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator in the office of The United States Trade Representative and as Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs. More recently, Dr. Crowder was the C.G. Thornhill Professor of Agricultural Trade at Virginia …
I was walking through the neighborhood recently when I saw a woman I recognized working in her yard. Georgia? Is that you? She looked up, and I could tell she didn’t quite recognize me. Breaking the tension, I said, “It’s Tim; you sold us our house on Merritt Circle thirty-eight years ago! “Tim, it’s you!” …
Slow drivers, especially those refusing to yield the passing lane, make me crazy. It doesn’t end there. I hate being relegated to a call tree when trying to get an answer to a simple question: "If this is an emergency, please hang up…. Press 1 for English…. This call is being recorded for training purposes." …
Towards A Life Well-Lived 