Welcome to Total Life Chocolate
The phrase "total life chocolate" came during a conversation, in 2006, with a co-worker and friend who expounded on a remark I made about sibling rivalry. We were talking about the way that some folks bring sibling rivalry into the office environment in terms of the feeling that his/her brother(s)/sister(s) somehow got more—a bigger slice of cake, a better birthday gift, more of mom and dad's attention—that sort of thing.
We talked about the concept of Karma and how things evened-out over the course of a lifetime, so we wondered aloud why folks hung on so dearly to the idea that they weren't getting their fair share, and worked too hard at demanding it from others.
As the years passed, I wanted to do something with that phrase, because to me, it seemed as if there was a piece missing from our initial interpretation. Sure, the phrase described want, but the phrase also held deeper meaning.
It became clear that Total Life Chocolate, as a phrase could be broken into parts: it was total life, it was life's chocolate, and it was all three.As part of a year-long project to which I dedicated myself to weekly creative writing posts at A Creative Way Out of Work, I wrote brief essays on the topic challenges we face, and healing we require, and about the good things that we ought to be thankful for, rather than focussing on the wanting that we all seem to be whining about.
For example, the excerpts posted here—Life's Curriculum Vitae, Practising Grace in the Office, and Quo: Where Am I Going?—are essays that encourage you to look beyond whatever daily irritants keep you feeling down, or locked in misery, and ask that you work on creating a better life for yourself.
We talked about the concept of Karma and how things evened-out over the course of a lifetime, so we wondered aloud why folks hung on so dearly to the idea that they weren't getting their fair share, and worked too hard at demanding it from others.
As the years passed, I wanted to do something with that phrase, because to me, it seemed as if there was a piece missing from our initial interpretation. Sure, the phrase described want, but the phrase also held deeper meaning.
It became clear that Total Life Chocolate, as a phrase could be broken into parts: it was total life, it was life's chocolate, and it was all three.As part of a year-long project to which I dedicated myself to weekly creative writing posts at A Creative Way Out of Work, I wrote brief essays on the topic challenges we face, and healing we require, and about the good things that we ought to be thankful for, rather than focussing on the wanting that we all seem to be whining about.
For example, the excerpts posted here—Life's Curriculum Vitae, Practising Grace in the Office, and Quo: Where Am I Going?—are essays that encourage you to look beyond whatever daily irritants keep you feeling down, or locked in misery, and ask that you work on creating a better life for yourself.