From what I have seen of life and death, it is no joke. If you are lucky or unlucky enough, according to how you look at it, to be born there is only one way out once you are here. The way out is in a box. Upon your death, you are put into a box, which is then surrounded by concrete as thick as your wrist. So, as I see it, there is no possibility to escape the confines of this death. In the old antique cemeteries, which are my passion, you can see the earth’s upheaval, cracks, loose stones, showing a means of escape. More
Bits and Pieces: A Day
16 Apr 2008 Leave a comment
in Reflections, Trials and Tribulations
Everyone has had the experience of sitting in a car repair waiting room. I have had my share. This time there was a recall # 139 and I had to return to the dealership. By the way, my car is 10 years old. I have trepidations when I go into a dealership. You have had yours. I always think they charge the highest of prices and find things wrong on purpose.
The young, very young man at the counter looked at my recall notice and said, “This is an old one,” More
Today’s Bits and Pieces: From Loretta
12 Apr 2008 Leave a comment
in Reflections
Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly, Leave the Rest to God.
THANK YOU LORETTA!
Now I Know Why God Made Me Tone Deaf
28 Feb 2008 2 Comments
Long ago, in another time, I was kicked out of chorus. Oh how demeaning. I never got over it. Well, actually I never go over it until today. I realize, God made me tone deaf so I would use my words to sing. I do not mean to be dualistic, but perhaps we are all the writers and the singers of this planet. Where do you place yourself? Are you the singer or the writer? Are you perhaps the listener? I was the listener most of my life until a few years ago. More
My Dad and more……..
29 Jan 2008 1 Comment
in International Travels, Reflections
My father is very ill and in the last stages of his life, as we know him. I began to think about my father’s illuminated life full of wisdom and generosity. He centered his life on his family, his business and his community. He has always been generous and fair-minded. He obtained the goals and objectives he set for his life through hard work and perseverance. I love him and I am proud of him.
My father’s family originated in a shtetl called Grodno on the border of Poland and Russia. His father’s father left there and arrived in the late 1800, early 1900’s in New York. My great grandfather was a peddler. More
Who Are You Without Your Computer?
24 Jan 2008 5 Comments
in Reflections
I have read several different Gurus’ on self-processing and they profess that if you process down to where you can hear your own blood pumping, you have created fertile ground in which to do self-processing work. In accessing the level of hearing your own blood pump through your body, you begin to think of things you might ordinarily not contemplate.
Today I decided to quiet myself down until I could hear my life force, my blood pumping in my ears. I didn’t have to sit quietly very long because I heard it. It was my own heart beating, pumping. I have heard it before, but didn’t really take the time to think that it is my body talking to me. I am a jumpy person and have to be up doing and saying something, or do I? More
WHAT WOULD YOU DO
13 Jan 2008 3 Comments
in Reflections
“IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD NOT FAIL
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”
I saw this in a gift shop and decided to let you know about it. It certainly is motivating. I say it over and over to myself. I did not buy the wall hanging, but think I have it memorized. If not, then, it is: ” What would you do if you knew you could not fail.” Either way it says the same thing.
Full Circle
02 Jan 2008 4 Comments
in Quotes, Reflections
BITS AND PIECES OF A GRASSHOPPER MIND
Chapter One: The Blog
FULL CIRCLE
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”
John Foster Dulles
Bits and Pieces from a Grasshopper Mind is a blog technique I will be using to write this book so that I do not have to follow the templates found in the books I purchased thinking I would learn how to write a novel. I poured over them, all twenty-eight of them, and not one suggested I write the way I write.
Grasshopper is a book that will create a metamorphosis in your mind, which allows you come out thinking how you can use what you have experienced.
Have you noticed that unique thinking is round and comes full circle? More
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
13 Dec 2007 1 Comment
in Reflections
I have decided that all of the money received from the sales of my book will be given to the Alzheimer’s Foundation Of America. I have sent them a book for review and possibly they will advertise and sell it at their events. I would be glad to go to their events to make presentations. While my book is not about Alzheimer’s, I have over 20 years of first hand experience with this disease. My mother, father and many of my aunts and uncles on my mother’s side of the family have had Alzheimer’s.
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Bits and Pieces: Phone use in Restaurants
13 Dec 2007 2 Comments
in Reflections
I went out to lunch with my friend on Saturday and for some reason, I got the best seat in the house. It enabled me to see everyone in the restaurant. I was able to notice that at almost every table including my own at least one person and sometimes two or more were on the phone. HUH? When you go out to lunch with someone, aren’t you supposed to be with him or her? One table in particular interested me. There were three occupants. At ALL times during the lovely luncheon two of the three people were on the phone. When the lunch was put before them, I thought to myself. “Oh now they will put their phones away.” Did they? No way, but they did try. Their phones kept ringing. Maybe they are so important they will change the world for the better. I hope so because they certainly were not enjoying the people at their table; they turned away from a face-to-face opportunity and chose a digital one instead. Next time you make the choice, be aware, someone is watching you, me.
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