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Category Archives: LIfe Lessons
Precious Gems
(Source: I Stop For Suffering shared Tao & Zen’s photo) The Cosmos is filled with precious gems. I want to offer a handful of them to you this morning. Each moment you are alive is a gem, shining through and … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Awareness, Gratitude, Inspiring, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Quotes I Love, Wisdom
Tagged breathe gently, cherish, distress, Earth, embrace life, embrace your heritage, enjoy, Happiness, heritage, I Stop For Suffering, in your arms, living, miracles, Our true Heritage, photo, photograph, precious gems, quote, stream, Tao, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen
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Letting go, Appreciating, and Looking Forward
“Sometimes you just have to let go of what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.” (Source: Lets Be Positive Together) I’ve been there and will be again. Based on my experience, I’d say this … Continue reading
Posted in Attittude, Challenges, Choices, Gratitude, LIfe Lessons, Loss, My Beliefs, Observations, Optimism, Quotes I Love
Tagged experience, future, gratitude, let go, letting go, loss, optimism, present, true, wise
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Living Life Inside Out
One of the blogs I love to read is Charron’s Chatter http://charronschatter.com If you haven’t seen her blog, I recommend that you check it out. Her posts are witty and fun. Lately, WP stopped allowing me to “Like” her posts, … Continue reading
A Tough Teacher
When I begin to believe I’ve got life licked It shows me in many Not-so-subtle ways That I’m far from Mastering it. –Russ Towne
Posted in LIfe Lessons, Observations, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged humor, lessons, licked, Life, master, mastering, poem, poetry
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Bob Dylan’s Definition of Success
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan (Source: Robin Ruddy) I believe that is true for … Continue reading
Posted in Following Your Passion, Joy & Happiness, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Quotes I Love
Tagged Bob Dylan, dancing, doing, doing what you love, drummer, following your passion, happy, Love, Robin Ruddy, Success, successful, tune, women
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Vow To A Broken Man
It took two bad lungs And a broken heart To finally tear My world apart Barely alive In intensive care Hoping friends would Visit me there Most were too busy To visit at all To send a card Or bother … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Anger, Friendship, Illness, LIfe Lessons, Loss, Observations, Pain & Grief, Poetry I Wrote, Uncategorized
Tagged broken, broken man, false friends, firends, friends, Friendship, Grief, heart ache, heart break, illness, lungs, pain, poem, poetry, promise, vow
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Greater Than Gold
The seed of this piece came to me as I read a comment from Diana earlier today describing a most kind and generous act indeed. Diana, this poem is dedicated to your kind daughter and her wonderful mother for whom … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Kindness, LIfe Lessons, Making the World a Better Place, Poetry I Wrote, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged compassion, despair, Grief, hard life, kindness, love in action, pain, poem, poetry, sad, sad eyes, suffering, youth
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Detriment of the Doubt
I normally like to think things out And to give folks the benefit of the doubt But there have been times that I’ve found It’s wisest not to hang around When my stomach starts to churn That’s the time to … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, LIfe Lessons, My Beliefs, Observations, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged back, believe my gut, churn, detriment, Detriment of the Doubt, doubt, Geoff Gannon, good, gut, hat tip, instinct, knocked on my butt, poem, poetry, stab, stab in the back, stomach, too good to be true, true
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I Changed My View and It Changed Me
There were times many years ago when I thought my friends had abandoned me. I was wrong. I had only thought that they and I were friends. I hadn’t really been much of a friend to them so I shouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Breakthroughs, Friendship, Introspection, LIfe Lessons, My Beliefs, Observations
Tagged abandoned, change, changed, changed my view, friends, Friendship, it changed me, view
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