The end of things is always messier than the beginning.
Author: Conna Bond
Conna Bond is a marketing and management professor and co-founder of Pineapple Social Media and Red Canoe Creative. She frequently blogs on marketing strategy, social media, digital marketing and information design.
Life To Our Days
We wear our pain in different ways. In the clothes we wear, in tattoos and piercings, in conversations and fleeting expressions that flash by in moments when we grow weary of holding our masks in place. Even things we do to commemorate joyful occasions are memorials to moments past that can never be retrieved. Love…
Without Fear
Love casts out fear because it is selfless. When you act out of love, you act without fear of personal consequences.
Imagine the Things
My mother always told me to learn a new hymn each week on the piano. To read a chapter a day in the Bible. To eat fruits, nuts, grains, and greens every day for my health. To put first things first. To tackle life’s greater challenges in small chunks. To take long journeys in small…
Well With My Soul
This day in 1944 was the beginning of the end of a war. This day three years ago was the beginning of the end of a war I didn’t even know I was already fighting. The beginning of a year that would take me through the highest highs and the deepest, most excruciating lows. Today…
A Thousand Things
When I first became a mother, I was thrilled to be everything to my children—comforter, protector, friend, food source. Today, I’m thankful for the people who are a thousand things to them that I can never be. I’m most thankful for what they’ve become to each other.
The Choice
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted and everything you never wanted at the same time. It reminds you that life is a zero sum game, that anything of real value is eternal, and that joy is ultimately a choice.
Least of These
Christianity is an experiential, hands-on religion. It’s an earthly glimpse into eternal loyalty. In loving those nearest, and sometimes those “least deserving,” you come to know what it means to love Him. Not the other way around. To “keep your eyes on Jesus” means to keep your eyes on, deeply caring for, and unselfishly serving…
Valuable Gift
The most valuable gift you can give someone is the benefit of the doubt….
New Things
It is one of life’s great mysteries that people miraculously change, gain greater wisdom, redirect formerly misguided efforts, and exhibit new levels of courage. Conversely, it is one of life’s great tragedies that we set up their former selves as standards, clinging to the old and rejecting the new, forcing new wine into old wine…
Courage
Courage rarely roars.
The Issue
Diversity is less of an issue than lack of human empathy and caring in general. A respectful and caring person will respect and care for everyone.
Fragmentary Life 