The Velvety Steel Balls Radiance Project (or something like it)
The Joy of a Well-Loved Man
Give your man the gift of pure joy and watch it transform him. There is a quiet magic in the world that often goes unnoticed, a kind of alchemy that transforms a man when he feels truly loved. It is not the grand gestures or the loud proclamations that create this...
You Are Allowed to Shine
By shining your light on others, you give them permission to rise to the occasion. This chapter is not about confidence, though confidence may follow from it. It is not about success, though success often accompanies it. It is not about self-esteem in the therapeutic...
Open Your Mind to Receive
Perhaps the greatest tragedy is not that life offers us too little. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is how much we never receive. I want to tell you about the moment I told a stranger to “Have a beautiful life.” That exchange was complete in a way that the original...
Moving Toward What Matters
The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is rarely talent. It is almost always courage. There is a moment that recurs throughout human life — not once, but repeatedly, across the decades of a lived existence — in which a person stands at a...
How Many Men Have Loved Deeply and Never Spoken?
One of the great hidden tragedies of human life is not unrequited love. It is unexpressed love. The culture keeps a careful record of love expressed. The proposal on the mountaintop. The letter delivered at the last possible moment. The declaration made in the rain,...
