🔍 Featured Reflections & Articles

There are lines in literature that stay with us not because they are elegant, but because they are unsettling. William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying gives us one of the strangest and most unforgettable: Vardaman’s declaration, “My mother is a fish

We often confuse understanding with wisdom.
Understanding sees clearly; wisdom acts with clarity.
One explains the world, the other transforms how we live within it.

Understanding allows us to see what’s really happening—how things connect, what causes what, and why events unfold the way they do. Wisdom, however, is what guides our response to that clarity. It’s what turns insight into compassion, and reflection into movement.

Understanding recognizes truth.
Wisdom lives it.…..

✨ Website Ideas and Posts That Resonated

📌 Most Visited: "People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime" — Poem by Anonymous. This poem continues to receive the most visits on the site and often resonates with readers navigating change.

🔹 “What Our Brains Are Really Doing in Stillness”

We live in a culture that measures value by the activities we engage in. If we’re not moving, typing, scrolling, or ticking boxes, we assume we’re falling behind. But the truth is, stillness isn’t wasted time — it’s one of the most essential things we can give our minds.

When you stop doing and allow yourself a moment of quiet, your brain doesn’t shut down. In fact, something remarkable happens. It switches gears.

🔹 Gratitude is more than just a feeling — it's a mindset that can transform how we experience each day. When we shift our focus toward what we appreciate, even in small ways, we unlock energy, clarity, and a deeper connection to the world around us. This reflection explores how choosing gratitude leads to real and lasting inspiration.

🔹 How Open-Mindedness Sparks Daily Creativity? New ideas aren’t accidents — they’re the result of staying open, curious, and ready to be inspired every day.

Where do new ideas come from? Sometimes we find them intentionally through research or exploration. Other times, they seem to appear out of nowhere.

ABOUT THIS SITE

Connected Events Matter is a place for quiet reflection—on purpose, communication, identity, and the slow work of becoming who we are. Through books like What Matters, The Human Factor, and The Power of Authentic Communication, I explore how everyday experiences shape meaning, clarity, and growth.

Here you’ll find essays, poetry, and reflections that invite you to pause and notice the small moments that stay with you. My writing circles around three themes:
self-awareness, reinvention, and the human side of change.

I write about the choices that shape us and the stories we return to when life shifts. My background in consulting and career development influences how I look at people, purpose, and relationships. But the heart of my work is simple:

Pay attention. Listen to yourself. Let small insights guide you forward.

We all move through quiet seasons that ask us to reconsider what life is becoming. My writing begins in those places—the in-between moments when something meaningful is shifting and we feel it before we can name it.

Every book and essay on this site is an invitation to pause. To look at how purpose takes shape in ordinary experiences. A conversation that lingers. A question that unsettles us. A memory that reminds us who we want to be. Growth doesn’t always start with action. Often it begins with awareness.

Authentic communication sits at the center of this work. When we say what we truly think and feel, we understand ourselves more clearly. This theme runs through The Power of Authentic Communication, The Human Factor, and What Matters. Meaning is found in reflection and in the small choices that shape our days. Reinvention is not about escaping the past, but understanding it.

If you are here looking for clarity or renewal, take your time. Read what speaks to you. Insight often appears quietly. It just needs our attention.

Each week I share short reflections in the What Matters newsletter—a simple pause in the noise, a place to return to purpose and perspective.

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A quiet space for reflections on reinvention, connection, and the small moments that shape us. Short essays, poems, and thoughts on presence, identity, and the human side of change, delivered directly to your inbox.

Words guide us toward clarity, one honest thought at a time.

“What does it mean to say you are “writing in the moment”? At its simplest, it means capturing life as it unfolds—observing what’s happening around you and setting it down while the details are still fresh, like slowing a camera to catch every movement. Writing in the moment is immediate and alive, grounded in the “here and now.”

But it’s also about choice. Out of everything happening, what details do you notice? Which ones do you leave out? Some events stand out so sharply you can almost breathe them in. Those chosen details shape the way the moment is remembered.