Jim Blue

04/09/2026

Hmmm... I guess I need to get a little more specific when I "prescribe" meditation for my clients!! 😮😀

03/31/2026

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone”. Blaise Pascal

03/27/2026

We can't really know what is going on in another person's life. They might ACTUALLY be a jerk, but they might also be a nice person who, under stress, is ACTING like a jerk. It's very hard to discern this, especially in real time, when our hackles are up already. But whenever possible, maybe we can pause just a second and think it through before reacting negatively. Sometimes you really do need to stand up assertively, but sometimes - maybe most of the time - there's room to think, chill, and give grace.

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03/05/2026

A fun bit of music/TV trivia. 🙂

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03/03/2026

I just responded to a friend's FB post about "posters you had in your room as a teenager" and it sent me down memory lane to a place I LOVED to go in the mall - Spencer's Gifts! My teen bedroom was decorated with posters from there (as pictured, Farrah, Vikings, and the classic black-light ship!), and it was my go-to place for Christmas gifts like lava lamps and other fine accessories! 🙂

Anyone else remember Spencer's fondly? What posters did YOU have as a teen??

03/01/2026

Solid entertainment value, right here, heh heh. I'd give it at least a 7.5! Enjoy! 😀

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02/27/2026

Cat!! 😀😻😸

02/16/2026

Some folks don't think too often or too hard about the future, because it just sort of "happens" to us. Other people think WAY too much about the future and worry excessively about what might happen (with bad scenarios usually outpacing good scenarios by a large margin) - often this is referred to as "anxiety"! But in reality, the future doesn't even exist (in terms of the time-bound human realm). The future is not something "out there" - rather, it is actually created by all the things we do in the here and now, in "the next five minutes, and the next five after that, and so on and so on. To build a future that we want, instead of worrying about "out there" or "down the road", maybe we would be better served by focusing on "the next five minutes."

02/15/2026

The more we fight who we are, the more stuck we end up becoming. Carl Rogers

02/13/2026

A little piece of wisdom shared by James shortly before he passed. I wish he'd made it to that new beginning, but even though he didn't, I like his idea! I LOVE Winter, but his perspective is definitely food for thought! 😀

02/07/2026

A first step towards overcoming the inertia of procrastination.

02/05/2026

Living genuinely, living authentically, these are common themes I hear when I ask clients who they want to be and how they want to be. Ol' Tennessee Williams seems to have had it at least partially figured out! 🙂

“I don’t know what to tell you. A statement is easy, and here it is: Be yourself. Try to matter. Be a good friend. Love freely, even if you are likely—almost guaranteed—to be hurt, betrayed. Do what you were created to do. You’ll know what this is, because it is what you keep creeping up to, peering at, dreaming of. Do it. If you don’t, you’ll be punching clocks and eating time doing precisely what you shouldn’t, and you’ll become mean and you’ll seek to punish any and all who appear the slightest bit happy, the slightest bit comfortable in their own skin, the slightest bit smart. Cruelty is a drug, as well, and it’s all around us. Don’t imbibe.

“Try to matter. Try to care. And never be afraid to admit that you just don’t know, you just don’t fu***ng know how you’re going to make it. That’s when the help—the human and the divine help—shows up.” —Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982/Photo by Richard Avedon