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11 Oct 2011

Why Do You Write?

It’s funny how time lengthens when you don’t like what you’re doing.

It’s funny how time goes by so quickly when you’re living your dream.

Monday, I worked a year at a restaurant.

Tuesday, I got a job for a few years at a law firm. Twenty dollars an hour to make copies and coffee.

On Wednesday, I did accounting. A dozen years stacking numbers and dollar signs into neat piles.

Thursday was twenty years making widgets at the factory. It was the longest day of my life.

What am I doing here? When will this week end?

On Friday, someone gave me a typewriter. I typed my dreams in black and pasted them to the walls until they were spackled with ink.

Friday turned to May. I typed. May turned and my hair grew grey.

I was born, I found, to type.

When the end came, I gave the typewriter away.

So someone else could live, as I did, their life in a day.

http://thewritepractice.com/new-video-why-do-you-write/

The Write Practice – Joe Bunting and Liz Bureman

 

 

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10 Oct 2011

The Power of Our Choices

I got the following inspirational movie link this morning, from Mac Anderson at Simple Truths – http://www.powerofdisciplinemovie.com/?cm_mmc=CheetahMail-_MO-_-10.10.11-_-TPODmovie&utm_source=CheetahMail&utm_campaign=TPODmovie

As I was watching it, the thought came to me that discipline is simply living the power of choices with total awareness of what we truly want in our lives. ha We all seem to ‘forget’ the things we truly want in our lives very easily. We want good health, but we ‘forget’ that comes through excercise and good eating habits. We want good relationships, but we ‘forget’ that it takes involvement and nurturing to keep a bond growing between two people. We want to be successful in our business, yet we ‘forget’ that we must make good, and practical, business decisions in order for that to happen.

I enjoyed the movie and it helped me to start my day focused on my personal goals. I, like every other person, have been given an abundance of talent. Now it is up to me to choose to discipline myself and reach my personal goals.

wooo hoooo! I know I can…I know I can….I know I can….I kno

AL

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17 Sep 2011

40 things to know in the valley!

  1. Faith and Hope = trust
  2. Nobody is as good or as bad as they want you to think
  3. You are never alone
  4. You are loved and valuable
  5. Don’t avoid the suffering…the only way out is through
  6. Face your truth
  7. It’s all about you
  8. Let go…let go…keep letting go…
  9. Kindness, beauty, truth
  10.  Keep working to gain ground
  11. Smile
  12. Live in awareness
  13. Look for miracles every moment
  14. Rest
  15.  Become yourself
  16.  Never stop learning
  17. Your gut always knows – trust!
  18. Look for friends on all levels
  19. Listen
  20. Ask, seek and knock
  21. Don’t give yourself away to peopleo who don’t understand
  22.  Enjoy, and laugh, at this moment – even the tough ones
  23. Fight to keep your heart open
  24. Find the value in your failures
  25. Surround yourself in nature
  26. Realize the value of your life
  27. Acknowledge the miracles
  28. Try everything you can and talk to everyone you meet
  29. Seek healing instead of justice or vengeance
  30. Keep on going
  31. Use Death as an Advisor
  32. Fear is a paper tiger/do what you fear
  33. Sing…LOUD
  34.  The light is within you
  35.  Joy and peace don’t depend on circumstances
  36. Don’t believe the “obstacle illusions” in your way
  37. The power of 40
  38. There is lots of Free Stuff out there
  39. Friends
  40.  Love Conquers All
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18 Aug 2011

A Thought about Life

Thinking about life

All it has to offer

Why do I forget

Why do I let things bother

 

My life is a complex web

Of the loves inside of me

A variety of people

In a variety of ways

 

Why do I want

What I cannot have?

Why do I forget

What I hold in my hand?

 

When I look in the mirror

What do I see?

When I walk away

What do I leave?

 

Here I go living

Just for today

Here I am laughing

My troubles away

Here I am learning

To let it all go

Here I am loving

All I don’t know

 

One day I laugh

One day I cry

One day the truth

The next day a lie

 

It is what it is

Now take life and run

Just as it is

There’s rain and there’s sun

 

AL     July/09

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11 Aug 2011

Loves me some Einstein-Truth!

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07 Aug 2011
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How Much Difference Can One Person Make?

An excerpt from
One Solitary Life
By James A. Francis
He was born in an obscure village the child of a peasant woman.

He grew up in still another village
where He worked in a carpenter shop
until He was thirty, and then for three years
He was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family.
He never owned a house.
He never went to college.
He never visited a big city.

He never traveled
two hundred miles
from the place
where He was born.

He did none of the things
one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself.

He was only thirty-three when
the tide of public opinion turned against Him.
His friends ran away.
He was turned over to His enemies
and went through the mockery of a trial.

He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.

While He was dying
His executioners gambled for His clothing,
the only property He had on earth.

When He was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
through the pity of a friend.

Twenty centuries have come and gone,
and today Jesus is the central figure
of the human race,
the leader of mankind’s progress.

All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that have ever reigned
put together

Have not affected the life
of mankind on this earth
as much as that
one solitary life.

http://www.simple truths.com
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03 Aug 2011

A Moment of Choice

Starting New

Starting something new allows us to choose to reset knowing that with each choice we learn, grow, and move forward.

There are times in our lives that lend themselves to starting something new. The beginning of a new year, finishing school, leaving a job, or changing homes—these all are times that turn our minds to fresh starts. Their advantage is that they bring with them the energy of that event, creating a tide of change around them that we can ride to our next shoreline. But we can choose to start anew anytime. In any moment we can decide that a bad day or a relationship that’s gotten off on the wrong foot can be started again. It is a mental shift that allows us to clean the slate and approach anything with fresh eyes, and we can make that choice at any time.

Starting new is most powerful when we focus our attention to what we are choosing to create. Giving all of our attention to the unwanted aspects of our lives allows what we resist to persist. We need to remember to leave enough room in the process of new beginnings to be kind to ourselves, because it takes time to become accustomed to anything new, no matter how much we like it. There is no need to get down on ourselves if we don’t reach our new goals instantly. Instead, we acknowledge the forward motion and choose to reset and start again, knowing that with each choice we learn, grow, and move forward.

Making the choice to start anew has its own energy—it’s a promise made to you. The forward momentum creates a sort of vacuum behind it, pulling toward you all you need to help you continue moving in your chosen direction. Once the journey has begun, it may take unexpected turns, but it never really ends. Like cycles in nature, there are periods of obvious growth and periods of dormancy that signal a time of waiting for the right moment to burst forth. Each time we choose to start anew we dedicate ourselves to becoming the best we are able to be.

www.dailyom.com

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02 Aug 2011

To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to
dedicate every breath in your body to achieve… If you feel
you have something to give, if you feel that your particular
talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there’s
nothing you can`t achieve.

– Kevin Spacey

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13 Jul 2011

There Are Woods

Where I lived there were woods

where I walked in contemplation

every morning and evening.

People asked when I moved,

Are there woods? Can you walk?

Yes, there are woods, deep and quiet,

where I walk in silence each day.

 

And if there weren’t,

there is still a stand of trees nearby,

where I could sit and listen.

And if they were gone,

there would be my back yard,

and a little garden,

and if there were no yard

I could still sit in this chair

and gaze out the window

at the neighbor’s trees.

And if there were no window,

no trees across the way,

if I could not walk

or gaze or see at all,

 

there are still these gentle woods

that stretch out forever,

deep and verdant, in my heart,

where I go every morning and evening,

and whenever I want,

in the quiet.

 

And so do You,

walking in the cool of the shade.

I know you’re here

by your great footprints

of silence.

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05 Jul 2011

This is what you shall do

by Walt Whitman

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

“This is what you shall do…” by Walt Whitman, from the preface of Leaves of Grass. Public domain.
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