Month: August 2017

Remodel Yourself We have been remodeling our home for six months.  And as you probably know, it has cost more and taken longer than I ever dreamed it would!  We are now laying a thousand square feet of ceramic tile and working ten to twelve hours per day.  We have a timeline of being complete…

Simple Acts of Kindness The tragic events in south Texas give rise to heroic acts of love and caring that might never have occurred without it happening.  I admire all the pictures of these folks, many who have never met before, giving aid and comfort to each other.  It is sad, in a way that…

Serendipity This is blog number 76 and I am 76 and I played professor Harold Hill in the musical “The Music Man” a few years ago.  And of course a famous song of that musical is “76 Trombones”  Which reminds me of the Carlson family who lived here in Sedona at the time.  They knew…

Harmony in Relationships Universal principle #17 Our primary relationship is with God. How we see and feel about God determines the quality of all our relationships. Knowing that God loves and supports us unconditionally, allows each of us to feel unconditional love and support for our Selves. We are then able to feel and express…

UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES   Universal principles is what it’s all about Life is so uncertain sometimes we like to shout When we’re in our head and not our hearts we’ll never figure it out   So take time for reflection and ease back in your chair Know life is just perfection and you haven’t got a…

We are all angels in disguise We just watched the movie “Michael” again.  John Travolta plays a large, overweight, hard smoking, sugar addicted.angel to perfection!  I love the humanity that Nora Ephron shows in this depiction of an angelic messenger. In the film, Michael has almost all the women attracted to him.  Each lady has…

Family The blog is easier when I am out in the world connecting with folks.  Today we went to the tenth annual Roy Smith memorial party at the home of his previous wife Sarah and her adoring husband Nano.  They live in the small little hamlet of Cornville Arizona.  They have a delightful home under…

  What will be your legacy?   “Welcome to my morning, welcome to my day Oh yes I’m the one responsible, I made it just this way To make myself some pictures and see what they might bring I think I made it perfectly, I wouldn’t change a thing” Those wonderful words from John Denver’s…

How long will you live? Happiness and attitude are very important. Optimism is a trait that is linked with longer life spans. Even studies support this. A 2011 study found that the group of older people that scored as the happiest had a death rate of 3.6%, which is less than half of the death…

Aloha, It has been ten weeks now since we began this blog. I named it Heart to Heart from a John Denver song of the same name. We spend so much time in our minds trying to figure out life.  The mind is a wonderful thing, waste it!  A joke about how much power we…