A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Feb 08
Gratitude saves us at the most unlikely times. A friend of mine who lost his wife to cancer was overwhelmed with gratitude for the beautiful life they’d had together.
Jan 31
After a long job-seeking rejection streak, one of organizational psychologist Robert Cialdini’s clients started asking one simple question at the beginning of a job interview...
Jan 23
I once knew a couple who took stock of their marriage every year to decide if they were going to renew the contract.
Jan 17
“There’s an old saw that goes something like this: It used to be that a happy man just had to make a hundred bucks more than his brother-in-law. Now because of social media...
Jan 10
Sometimes we get so tangled up in our mind we have a hard time seeing clearly -- being able to see where we are -- which is why this poem by a young Japanese schoolboy* is so startling:
Jan 03
Several lifetimes ago I moved to Washington, DC and married a man who made it a habit to regularly visit the Air & Space Museum.
Dec 27
When you’re down on the floor do you have to crawl over to the coffee table to hoist yourself up?
Dec 21
In the middle of the day in a town square in Sabadell, Catalonia, a single cellist wearing a full tuxedo with tails begins playing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
Dec 16
We all want to feel alive and feel the vitality of life coursing through us but lately my hands have made me aware of the very opposite, aware of vitality slipping away.
Dec 06
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; It has to be made, like bread; Remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K Le Guin