Reflections
Latest Reflections
Newest writings, expanded thoughts, and fresh lantern lines.
This is where the newest Mental Magnolia writings will gather: expanded thoughts, honest questions, perspective shifts, and the occasional lantern found along the trail.
As new reflections are published, they will find their place here.
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Some stories become more interesting when you revisit them as an adult. Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! is one of those stories for me. I loved this book when I was a child. I grew up surrounded by Dr. Seuss books and the wonderfully strange worlds that came with…
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Which role have you learned to play? Shakespeare gave us this familiar image in As You Like It: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. Centuries later, Rush…
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin, “As Much Truth as One Can Bear” But what does it actually mean to face something? We often picture facing a situation as immediate action: making the call, having the conversation,…
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Some songs ask questions that refuse to age. Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” begins in childhood, in a world experienced as beautiful, magical, and full of possibility. Then education begins. Expectations arrive. The child is taught how to become sensible, practical, dependable, acceptable, and appropriately defined. But beneath all that learning,…
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Have you ever been sincerely cared for and still felt misunderstood? Being cared for isn’t always the same as being understood. What might change if we replaced certainty with curiosity and listened before translating?
More is growing here as the library is reorganized. For now, you can wander through the full collection and begin wherever something catches your attention.
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