Issue #125, October 30 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! When life gets topsy-turvy it can be difficult to make sense of it all. This month, Robin offers some deep and heartfelt reflections on the lessons available during personal challenges. We hope they are helpful. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Life Events - Suffering Is Optional By any measure, October was a personally challenging month. All around me, family and dear friends experienced a series of unwelcome calamities: death, serious and sudden illnesses, terrorism, and a house fire, to name a few. Each was
Issue #83, May 15 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope this newsletter finds you and your family healthy and in mostly good spirits. Today, Sandy Krot shares her hobby of bird watching and explains what this hobby has taught her. Maybe it will inspire you to watch birds, or maybe it will inspire you to simply slow down. All of us at Insight Principles Why I Love Bird Watching When I met my husband 20+ years ago, he was an avid bird watcher. I loved nature and all of her creatures, but frankly, I didn’t often notice birds. We would
Issue #79, March 19 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! These are very interesting, and for many, very challenging times. We wanted to reach out to you all with more frequent reminders of both the benefits and avoidable pitfalls of living in a human mind. We hope you all are taking good care of yourselves and your friends and families. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if we can help in any way. Stay well. All of us at Insight Principles Uncertainty and Imagination The human imagination is a miraculous thing. Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Einstein,
Issue #53, January 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Welcome to the first Insights and Implications of 2018. We hope the new year is off to a good start. This month we are looking at the phenomenon of a “daymare” - like a nightmare, only it happens during the day. Please read on. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Awakening from a Daymare You’ve had nightmares. You know, the kind where someone is after you and you can’t speak and you can’t move. When you wake up and realize you are dreaming, it's a relief. There are also daymares.
Issue #47, July 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We received this newsletter contribution from Ken Manning’s son Zander. Thanks Zander. Wishing you the best in your final year of school and all the years after. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Time: The Greatest Illusion We Face On June 9th, 2014 I walked onto the UMass campus for the first time as a freshman and, on the same day, I got my first piece of advice: “enjoy your time here, before you know it you’ll be graduating. Time flies.” I got the same advice when I began high
Issue #42, February 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! From time to time we like to share insights from the participants in our programs. While this month’s guest author describes a trip over the winter holidays, her insights are relevant year-round. We love hearing from you so please keep those insights coming. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Travel Delays: Always A Chance for Insight Over the holidays I traveled to Orlando to visit my family. I was excited to see my mom, brother and baby niece. I booked a red-eye flight on December 23rd with a 2.5 hour
