Dear reader,
Welcome. I hope you find something I have written in this blog to be of value. This is a public journal of thoughts from along my path through Life. (Though I am a very fortunate and very grateful man, the path has been bumpy at times! Applying my late mother's favorite saying turns bumps into lessons.)
I hope to contribute to others' - to your - growth, peace of mind, effectiveness, fulfillment, and joy. I hope to contribute to your opening yourself to yourself. To your exploring your deeper self - your subconscious self, your anxious even fearful self, your lonely self, your selfish self [hint: it's ok with me!] and your forgiving self, your compassionate self, your compassionate-to-yourself self. To your empowerment of your loving self. Just the thought that I might do so brings me fulfillment and joy.
I started this blog, with thoughts going back to the late 1970's, in June of 2013. Most page visits are from countries other than the USA. Though being a judge was one reason for not enabling comments to my posts, and I am now only a retired judge, I have still not enabled comments because I do not write to initiate correspondence. (I'm working on a novel infused with some of the perspectives posted here and, at age 77, I had better work faster on that!) Readers who like what they read here may return, "follow" this blog, and sometimes share their experience of value here with others. I am grateful for that and invite visits to my other writings.* Visitors who don't see value here will just stop reading and not return. I wish them well. The holiness in every person does not require us to agree!
To each of my readers: may your kindnesses come back to you every day!
Leeland Cole-Chu
* https://afriendsthoughts.substack.com/p/what-will-we-americans-do-to-preserve our democracy?
https://www.threads.net/@leeland.cole_chu
https://afriendsthoughts.medium.com/reality-checks-about-personal-growth-and-responsibility-3a7be22695ac
