choices
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Homeless to Harvard.
“Breaking Night” by Liz Murray, how she went from Homeless to Harvard, shows that you can change the legacy you were born into. Her endurance to survive was what she needed to change direction when she could see her course… Continue reading
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I Play Where I am Happy!
“It’s easier to love a happy me,” is a comment I made and it seems profound in a very simplistic way. How can you love yourself if you are unhappy? What I found by writing is that unhappiness… Continue reading
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Held On So Tightly…
I awoke at 4:00 am, with my right hand tightly clenched, my arm sore. A dream flooded my awareness. I was at a beach, and saw a young girl pour gasoline into the front seat of my car,… Continue reading
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Right For You.
I read a wonderfully inspiring book at the Beach House, “Unraveled” by Maria Housden. She writes about a conversation she had with her dad about the choices she made that went against conventional thinking, but that spoke to her… Continue reading
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Steps towards mine.
My online conversations with family are so enlightening and disturbing, confusing and clear, and they show me who they are, and how they see me. What continues to surprise me is that they hold me up to an unattainable… Continue reading
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Future Us!
Here is a great concept that I had never considered in a book called, “Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert. “We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of… Continue reading
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Where I want to go…
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” ~Charles F. Kettering Today was my 132nd… Continue reading
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Your Free Will.
“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” ~William Shakespeare I looked up the word willpower and it said, “the strength of will to carry out one’s decisions, wishes or plans.” What I didn’t know… Continue reading
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All the Gifts Awareness Brings!
One hundred and four days into a new habit, the habit of being aware, of being responsible for my response to life, of knowing that I will always get the results I want depending upon my actions. My actions… Continue reading
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Will to Erase the Excuse!
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie….” Alexander Pope Wayne Dyer writes in his book Excuses Begone, There’s statistical evidence that the conscious mind occupies approximately 5% of the total… Continue reading