By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– I recently visited the San Francisco Zoo with family and had a wonderful time. I saw bears exploring their enclosure for treats left by the keepers, wolves playing hide-and-seek on their worn trails, orangutans climbing high up for the view while they ate breakfast and lions doing what theyContinue reading “Communication – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”
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Paradox From Within – Altruism
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– During my school age years there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that I was a hot mess. I had a teacher once tell me who had been trying her best to help me that it appeared to her that other people loved me more than I loved myself. Continue reading “Paradox From Within – Altruism”
Now I Lay Me
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– “Now I lay me down to sleep, praise the Lord, my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, God my soul is free to take.” What a hell of a thing to teach a child, this prayer, so that they say it every night before they tryContinue reading “Now I Lay Me”
Connecting With My Herd
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– Nature is my place of worship, never have I felt comfortable in a church or with any sort of manmade religion, including Catholicism, of which I was indoctrinated into as a child. From the time I can remember, I have always found solace in exploring my outer world, outdoors,Continue reading “Connecting With My Herd”
The Potential of Me
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought -explore– Less than two months ago I wrote a blog called “Selling Short” to explore my thoughts about a job transfer opportunity for which I had applied. Here I am now, hard to believe, one week into working that new job. I have moved to the San Francisco Bay area,Continue reading “The Potential of Me”
My Old Wooden School Desk
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought -explore– When I was a child, my parents had moved us children, seven of us, around a few times until we eventually settled into a small town. We had lived in the country; we had lived in a small town and then back to the country. Heck, we even livedContinue reading “My Old Wooden School Desk”
Knock, Knock, Knock!
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– Knock, knock, knock! Who is there, Justice, Justice who? Justice once I would like see accountability (insert about any wrong you can think of). This is where I awake and start my day, thinking about justice. With a photo I took some years ago while in Washington D.C. andContinue reading “Knock, Knock, Knock!”
Acceleration of Creativity: From Modernity into the Age of Self-Actualization
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– What drives a human beings need for creativity and wanting to share what they create with others? Are they creating to fill a need for themselves, for others or for both? Why do they do it when oftentimes creativity is something that may only be beautiful to the creatorContinue reading “Acceleration of Creativity: From Modernity into the Age of Self-Actualization”
Selling Short
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– I recently put in for an opportunity to move across country which would be back to an area where I have lived in the past. It would be for the same job I am doing now but in a different city than I live in now. It would comeContinue reading “Selling Short”
Ship in My Backyard
By Renee Shay, Harvesting Thought –explore– I had noticed my brother’s old pontoon tucked away on his side driveway last summer while I was out to the lake fishing. This boat was destined in his mind for recycling but to me it still looked like it had a solid structure, though some work would beContinue reading “Ship in My Backyard”
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