Currents July 2026
What is the last decision you made? Each of us makes innumerable choices every day, usually without thinking twice about them. It is often only when a choice has a…
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Choice Brings Freedom (English and Spanish)
“Do what you think is best.” – My mother, most days of my childhood (much to my chagrin) Recently my husband (and I) had to make a decision regarding his…
Currents July 2024
As a junior high school student, I participated in a musical, “It Begins with Balloons.” It was all about choices and responsibility–the same theme as this month’s Big Ocean Women…
Currents July 2023
As I write this, I am sitting out on my covered patio listening to the thunder roll, watching the rain fall, and breathing deeply the rejuvenating smell of a summer…
Currents July 2022
With several landmark decisions having recently come from the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the word “choice” is pulsating in headlines, social media posts, conversations, commentaries, and…
Choose to Change, Rewire Your Heart
This month we celebrate our freedom to choose. An important facet of this gift is that it opens the door for us to choose to change. I am grateful that…
Choosing Freedom and Joy
Over the past few years, I’ve been coming across more and more information and resources that teach the fact that our thoughts carry power — for good or for bad.…
Free to Choose
What does it mean when we say, “We are free to choose, and willingly accept responsibility for our choices?” Today, I’ll share some of my thoughts on this subject, but…
Choose to Feel Your Feelings
There certainly are times in my life when I have NOT felt free to choose. At times, when circumstances seemed bigger than me or when I felt like a victim,…
Communication Choices
Of the almost innumerable choices we make daily, perhaps the most consequential are the ones that impact those around us. The words we choose to use, our tone of voice,…
Giving Girls Dignity Nigeria
I am a member of Rotary International. Rotary club members work to improve life for some of the world’s vulnerable populations. Rotary’s global grants support these efforts in communities worldwide.…
Lessons From a 1960s Folk Song
In 1964, on the album Wednesday Morning, 3AM, the Simon and Garfunkel song, The Sound of Silence, made its debut. It wasn’t the song as we know it today, a…