What’s your advice, Coach?

Okay, that’s a trick question. I never seek someone’s coaching when it looks like it is merely about advice.

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You’re sorry? So, what now?

So many folks on the TV and out in the world having to say ‘I’m sorry’ for so many things these days. I don’t want to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, and though ‘sorry’ is a good gesture, is that enough?

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At your age you need a bit more guilt.

Ever get the feeling that someone is trying to dump a dose of guilt into our life? I mean besides all our own attempts? Happening a bit more as I get older, into ‘the twilight times’ of my life, it has been referred to, when others are beginning to talk to me about their mortality and ‘what has it all been about?’ I am noticing that it is also about questioning what we have been taught to believe, or have faith in.

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I’m afraid of you, so come closer.

There’s an African proverb that says simply, ‘Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor.’

My memories of my sailing experiences, although I never sailed any seas in my 16-footer, certainly would bear that proverb out. But there was also something else I got to see, and learn, from being near one or two unfamiliar lakes…….

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