If you have ever worked in a room full of toddlers, raise your hand. I’m confident you have experience with the reality that at this particular age, children don’t quite grasp the concept of Taking Turns. Just last Sunday, Joy had to navigate two children desiring to play with the same “backpack,” asking them to …
Category: Relational Equity
Why Not Me?
One summer in college I landed an interesting job with an amazing group of people in the housing office on the naval base in Millington. Perhaps it’s because this position was my first job outside of childcare or retail, some of the experience remains in my memory banks. Perhaps it’s because this was the first …
Be A Spoon
One of the amusing challenges in working with Emerging Adults is navigating how to sprinkle a dose of reality into their lives without destroying a professional dream. In one classroom assignment, students are expected to create a personal budget for a first-year employee with a bachelor’s degree for their aspiring career field. It’s fairly simple …
Exemplar of Selflessness
After engaging in a conversation with my neighbor, Mike, the other day about his upcoming high school reunion, I was reminded of how fascinating group dynamics can be, especially considering that at the same time, I was reading Joan Ryan’s book Intangibles about team chemistry in sports. Whether discussing groups of school alumni, high-performing athletic …
Come Clean
Does your body have a visceral response such as a gigantic lump in your throat when someone hesitantly utters the words, “I need to Come Clean with you!” Personally, my preference would be that those words were intended as an act of service which might result in removing dust from my furniture or soap scum …
Borrow a Map
On this pilgrimage to discover what it means to Truly Flourish and live a life of meaning, the traveling imagery has arisen often, and there are notes all over my reading any time a reference like Blindspots, Detours, and Dirty Windshields appear. However, this week may have been a Defining Moment when I began my …
Truly Flourish
Attempting to settle on one definition for what it means to Truly Flourish at life is a bit of a challenge for a multitude of reasons. Research will have me travel down paths related to happiness one day and then life satisfaction and positive psychology on another, all with their own unique perspectives of what …
Life Lessons from Benji
by Dr. Kelvin Moore, Union University, from 2021 Fall Faculty Workshop My wife and I live on a road. We don't live on a street or in a subdivision. Five additional houses, four of whom were family, exist on this approximately mile and one-half road. The road is country and county, we don't live inside …
Keeping Score
Life is not a game, so why are we continually Keeping Score? Pondering this weighty issue reminded me of a time many years ago when I was teaching an adaptive physical education course, and while we were playing a game in the gym, one of the student athletes, by the name of Mary Kosco Greer …
Refinement and Revision
“End of Construction – Thank you for your patience.” These words were chosen by Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, for her gravestone, and they have arisen in my reading several times over the years. I’m not sure I can accurately articulate why the expression resonates so deeply within me. Perhaps the reason …
Flourishing @ Life 