At one time or another we have all had the feeling of being left out.  Even if not intended, the feeling of not being around when something of importance takes place can leave us feeling excluded.  Even when exclusion is not intentional, sometimes our desire to having been part of something or being somewhere, which for one reason or another we were not present, can lead us to feel a bit jealous or even angry. …

I don’t know much about birds, but I love listening to them and watching them.  There is a bird who has made a nest on the corner of the front of our house, and she steps out onto the powerline each morning and begins chirping.  …

I wander off.  I always have, even as a child.  I don’t know why, but I do.  I have heard several stories told of just disappearing when I was little.  Mom has told more than once the story of how when I was just a toddler, I got up one morning, got a chair and unlatched the front door and walked outside, down the street (our house was on Poplar) and crossed Perkins Road. …

In the closing scene of the 1980’s movie, Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, Timothy Hutton’s character Conrad mentions to his Dad (played by Donald Sutherland) how he always thought that his Dad had a ‘handle’ for everything and how he admired that about him.  …

Think of a time that you felt needy.  Maybe it was a time that you felt alone or perhaps ignored and unimportant.  Aside from the circumstances that you may associate with why or how you came to feel that way, simply stay with that feeling itself. …