PATHWAYS OF POSSIBILITY

From the time we are born, we are subject to outside influences that shape us in one way or another. So how much of us is really us? Here Teresa Sullivan offers her thoughts. Sensing One's Self “No, no, no. Do it this way.” Has anyone ever said this to you? So much of our life, we are expected, instructed and directed to conform. As a baby, you watch your parents and do as they do, absorbing like a sponge the fundamentals of living. It gives you a good start in life. This c

What does it mean to be resourceful? Here Dana Hoffer finds inspiration in an old television show viewed with fresh eyes. He’s trapped in a deep pit, an IV dripping numbing drugs into his veins, his hands handcuffed. Then… He rips out the IV with his teeth, uses the needle to pick the lock on the cuffs, builds a satellite transmitter from a TV antenna, prevents an atomic bomb from detonating over Los Angeles, turns detergent and a toothpick into a smoke bomb, and leaps from a

In this short story, Lilach Grimminger proposes that there is ". . . much that is available to us if we could only have the right viewpoint." Within the story are clues for you to see it too . . . if you so choose.