Month: April 2018

Ten wonderful Qualities I just got on Facebook and saw a list of eight characteristics of a toxic person.  The list may be valuable if we are in a relationship with someone who has a lot of those qualities.  In this blog, I attempt to mostly look at the positive and loving ways to live. …

I Remember You It’s easy to forget what an amazing gift life really is. Our lives are nothing but a cosmic blink. Even our seemingly all-encompassing world is just a tiny blue dot circling an average sized star spiraling around a galaxy of 200-400 billion stars, which itself is just one galaxy among billions more….

Fun Stuff Life is such a wondrous adventure! We had a clogged up toilet and shower in the same bathroom.  A fellow tennis player referred a plumber to me, who works on Saturday and doesn’t charge extra.  His name is Jerry, and he came to our home about 2:15 and took about an hour to…

Reclaim Your Life Brian Gardner shared a list of ways to live a fulfilling life on his website nosidebar.com. Eight ways to reclaim your life: 1. Travel — go places you’ve always wanted to visit. 2. Social media — unplug from your devices every now and then. 3. Have conversations — seize the day and…

Kindness Step over ants, put worms back in the grass, rescue baby caterpillars, release spiders back into your garden, open windows for bees to fly home, they are all little souls that deserve a life too! These thoughts are from Wilder Child   If you want to do something nice for a child. give them…

The Sweetness of Life Lou Ann and I are watching one of our favorite movies: Chocolat.  It is a story of a vagabond woman and her daughter who travel from town to town dispensing cocao remedies. The cacao tree is native to the amazon valleys. It was domesticated by the Olmecs and Mocayas (Mexico and Central…

Longer Life I just saw a TED talk about the ten factors that help you live a longer life.  Here they are in the reverse order of importance.  In other words numbers nine and ten are the most important factors in having us create a longer life. Clean air Hypertension Rx Lean vs. overweight Exercise…

Farming We had a wonderful young man named Gary come over to our property and help us with our plans for permaculture. The three core tenets of permaculture are: Care for the earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. This is the first principle, because without a healthy earth, humans cannot flourish….

Happy Easter My earlier life experience is a lot like other people my age.  We were born in traditional religious families who celebrated the seasons and holidays.  Easter was a time of dressing up and going to church even if you didn’t do it that often.  Fridays, my family and almost all of my friend’s…

You Are Love Here are some more wonderful quotes that warm my heart. “In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.” – Bhagwan Shree Rasneesh…