The Moments Count Journal: You have a purpose and the power to change the world.

How Can I Help?

Humans are by nature a communal species. We tend to enjoy participation with others. This is not to say that we do not enjoy our alone time. It is simply that when we help or assist others we share an experience, which can be enriching for all concerned. I receive requests from people asking me [...]

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Who Turned Out the Lights?

by Donna Morask

“Life offers contradictory truths: We are separate, yet we are one. Accidents happen, yet there are no accidents. Death is real, yet death is an illusion. Our experience of reality and truth depends on our state of awareness.” Dan Millman Have you ever felt lost, alone and in the dark? Have you ever desperately sought [...]

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A National Geographic Love Story

by National Geographic

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard was only five years old when scarlet fever rendered her deaf for life. At the age of 17, she would meet a young Scottish speech therapist who was destined to shape her life. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Mabel’s father and National Geographic’s first president, took a liking to the industrious teacher and part-time [...]

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When to listen to fear (and when not to)

by Lauren Rosenfeld

If fear tells you not to step onto a pond that has just frozen over, it is a good idea to listen to fear. But if fear tells you not to set foot outside your door in the winter because there may be frozen ponds out there, it’s best to overcome the voice of fear, [...]

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Liberty vs. Enterprise: Monticello, Brown University & Slavery by Another Name

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

Throughout history, when the battle has been between Liberty and Enterprise, Enterprise has usually won… Three items of note caught my attention this week… all caught up for centuries in this historic battle. Brown University thoroughly investigated its historic ties to slavery and the slave trade, and its profit therefrom, and issued a remarkable report [...]

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Picking a therapist: The right fit is critical so ask the right questions

by Moments Count

From the American Psychological Association: “Being in therapy is great,” comedian Caroline Rhea once joked. “I spend an hour just talking about myself. It’s kind of like being the guy on a date.” It’s not a bad analogy — the dating one — when you’re setting out to find a therapist. You want someone with [...]

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The Painful Truth

by Paula O Sullivan

We’ve all experienced some form of emotional pain in our lives at some stage or another, and as I was considering what to write about on this subject I came across this lovely quote. ‘Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for [...]

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What is my question?

by Adam J Pearson

I have often find myself asking other people’s questions. However, at one point it struck me that these were not my questions. And then, a new question arose: what is my question? What do I truly want to know and to answer? That is a powerful question. Image Credit: WingedWolf @ Flickr

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The Photograph

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

This picture arrived in my email box the other day. When I saw it, I was struck by the emotions it conveyed. In writing this I thought about the numerous ways I could attempt to offer you the profundity I find in the photograph. However, each time I would look back at the shot, I [...]

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People I’ve Met Along The Way: Stan Kenton

by John W Strobel III

Some the earliest recollections of my childhood are of watching my dad play the banjo, saxophone and drums. He and my mother were children of the 1920’s Flapper Era but, both being musicians, they adapted to swing and the syncopated jazz big band sounds of the early thirties and forties. My dad settled on drums [...]

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