By Neal Lemery The weeks before Spring, before the world comes fully awake from its winter slumber, and bursts forth with flowers and growth and new hope for a bright and joyous…
Category: Words of Wisdom
Changing My Attitude
By Neal Lemery A friend recently asked me how can we change, how can we transform ourselves from who we are, into something that is less of what we don’t like about…
Thoughts On Creativity
By Neal Lemery (February 13, 2019) “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they…
A Day of Kindness
by Neal Lemery I had a big dose of soul medicine and human kindness last week. The experience restored my faith in humanity and the power of unconditional love. I saw my…
Exploring Toxic Masculinity
by Neal Lemery What is it to be a man in these times? There are a lot of mixed messages, and outright confusing and contradictory “principles” and models for behavior. It is…
Sheriff Sees the Library as a Vital Community Resource Benefitting Law Enforcement
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Tillamook County Library’s Winter 2019 newsletter, and reprinted here because of the important message. We will be highlight the many valuable services that the Tillamook…
Passing On
—Neal Lemery 1/9/2019 They say life’s a journey and time moves on And lives end and now you are gone. When someone goes, it’s never on my schedule And I can mourn,…
My 2019 New Year’s Affirmations
By Neal Lemery (12/28/2018) “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living,…
The Gift of Sobriety
By Neal Lemery (12/24/2018) “I know my limit,” one young man kept saying, his bloodshot eyes and pale complexion seemingly at odds with his statement, as he held his energy drink, hands…
Befriending
–Neal Lemery (11/29/2018) Kindness Comes in so many forms, so many ways A smile, a cup of tea, Reaching out, giving a hand Listening Accepting. Together We honor ourselves and each other…
