-
Recent Posts
Archives
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
Categories
- Aging
- Alone
- Attitude
- Beauty
- Beyond the obvious
- Childhood
- Children
- Choices
- Coping
- Country
- Courage
- Deaire
- Death
- Depression
- Dreams
- Dysfunction
- Embracing life
- Environment
- Family
- Fear
- Feelings
- Forgiveness
- Friends
- Fun and Humor
- Future
- Good Advice
- Grief
- Growing Up
- Happiness
- Health
- Helping Others
- Hopes and Dreams
- Humility
- Insight
- Inspiration
- Joy
- Judging
- Kindness
- Knowledge
- Learning
- Learning from kids
- Lessons learned the hard way
- Letting Go
- Life
- Life as it really is
- Living in the Present
- Living life well
- Loneliness
- Love
- Lust
- Making a difference
- Material Things
- Maturity
- Memories
- Mistakes
- Nature
- Not Giving Up
- Open Heart
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Peace
- People
- Perspective
- Precious things
- recovery
- Relationships
- Respect
- Romantic relationships
- Sadness
- Seasons
- Seeing 'what is'
- Self Awareness
- Sex
- Simple Pleasures
- Spirituality
- Thankfulness
- The "Now"
- The Future
- The Past
- Time
- Trust
- Uncategorized
- want
- What really matters
- Wisdom
- Work
- Works of Art
Tag Archives: inspiration
A Letter To My Son on Father’s Day
ORIGINALLY Posted on June 19, 2011 Dear Nick, Vivid in memory are the emotions I experienced just after you were born. The day after you arrived I wrote in a journal about the joy I felt, the gratefulness within for … Continue reading
The Thinking Mind: The Playground Bully
The thinking mind is very similar to the playground bully of grammar school; the insecure, dysfunction being that over compensates by showing itself to be cruel, unforgiving and completely in control. What “we think” is of our own creation. The … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the obvious, Life, Wisdom
Tagged feeling, Good advice, inspiration
Most Often Learned Too Late in Life
I came across the following list on quora.com and it prompted me to add one myself. A logical mind is easily deceived and at times simply a liar… James Browning Summary of lessons people learnt too late in life: Just because you think … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Living life well, Wisdom
Tagged inspiration, learning to be happy, self-awareness
But For the Grace of God
My memory of that afternoon awakens thoughts of a sunny fall day. Back in time a dozen years it was one of those in-between days of not cold yet, but not warm either. Balanced between extremes that Saturday was one … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Material Things, People, Wisdom
Tagged gratitude, inspiration, kindness
You Have To…
First posted on Good Morning Gratitude on July 3, 2014 Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Life as it really is, Living life well
Tagged Good advice, inspiration
Unrestrained Innocence
First posted on August 27, 2013 When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave … Continue reading
Posted in Growing Up, Learning from kids, Memories, What really matters
Tagged growing-up, inspiration, the past
Everything…
This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up… Keep trying, hold on, … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond the obvious, Embracing life, Life as it really is
Tagged Good advice, inspiration
Continue Striving
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally. Michel de Montaigne
Posted in Life, Perspective, Wisdom
Tagged choice, gratitude, inspiration
As You Imagine
Your eyes are like a mirror… and what you see in me is a reflection of you. CV Pillay
Posted in Beyond the obvious, Insight, Life as it really is
Tagged inspiration, learning to be happy, self-awareness
The Longer I Hold It
This story has made the rounds on the internet for a while now, but it’s meaningful enough to pass along again. A speaker walked around a room full of people while teaching about stress management. To begin he grabbed a … Continue reading
Posted in Letting Go, Life, Wisdom
Tagged heart warming, inspiration, learning to be happy