Journal
Focusing on What Truly Matters
The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. —Viktor E. Frankl It’s hard to believe it been...
Practice before the race…
If you stay ready you don't have to get ready. —Will Smith No matter how optimistic, focused, centered; no matter how high I generally fly on the emotional scale, eventually I hit a pothole in the road or sometimes I get engulfed by sinkhole. What I share here are the...
Being open to all the possibilities
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. —Marc Anthony Given my background even as I pursuit this idea of creating a new life, (here's nice article by someone else who's doing the same,) I am repeatedly reminded it's not yet automatic. I don’t...
Looking at life differently
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ― Douglas...
Creating a “good” present moment
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. —Dalai Lama I was talking to friend of mine about my ideas of keeping myself happy, that is to say, if I can make myself happy now I’ll be poised to have, create or solve any problem or...
8 Keys to Creating a Loving, Joyful Relationship
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. —Barbara de Angelis...
Creating happiness everyday
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. —Martha Washington Social scientists and economists...
Angel Chernoff, “I respectfully do not care.”
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk... As God is my witness... ―Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind There are events that...
Appreciating the ebb and the flow…
Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the...
