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It has been unusually hot!!! Sounds like time to find a fire hydrant, water or an ice cream treat.

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

This spring and early summer have been hotter than I can remember. We had a string of days that were 15 degrees or higher above normal.

We have had several 100+ days already this summer and July is not half over.

I think that it would be a good time for me to take a break and go on a vacation (warm but not hot, cool clear water to drink for relaxation and some yet to be determined ice cream delights.

So, I’m off for a while. Wishing you all a great summer. ALOHA 

I can hardly believe it is the middle of May (2010).

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Wow!

I took a break this past winter. I worked on some personal projects. Painting inside and outside, ripping out my master bath and pulling a “Bob Villa” style do-over. I patched my roof, tore down my pool.

This past March I went down to Charleston S.C. to attend a funeral. My aunt, the one who basically taught me to water ski and had the most infectious laugh, was gone physically.

I was a reality shock for me. She was only 16 years older than me. I felt as though my life was slipping away. I know it becomes natural to “feel mortality” but I was not ready yet. I muddled along until spring was warm and breezy.

I started working in the yard pulling weeds, cutting off pieces of trees that were damaged by a particularly wet and snowy winter.

I tore out flower beds, re-mulched and replanted the beds. I had carpet torn out and new carpet installed.

I did a big shake up of personal items. I took one room at a time (it did not matter to me….I am the project manager for this segment. I am the person responsible. THEN I MADE A BARGAIN. I said that if I could find currency with the object I would sent it over for review/reconditioning. If the item better served an older requirement or was of no particular use/advantage it got dumped.

I made the comment that if anything was special to somebody they should take a picture of it and then say goodbye to it.

That is kind of where I am today. Do I really need this and if so why?

This process takes away from the hoarding mentality. It provides mobility, saves time, resource and money.

With the pictures you may still conjure up the memories and feelings that are good or important.

Think about what is collected, why is it collected, what advantage it provides other than satisfaction of impulse. This is one reason retail grocery stores in particular place cute or tasty items next to the checkout stations. They count on the old queue concept that they analyze to their benefit. If they know the checkout line will consistently have 4-6 patrons waiting it becomes easier to move (sell) small items. Do the thought process fairly often on what, why, what and it becomes natural. You end up with a good system of inventory, storage facilities and usable materials. You also don’t have to spend days getting STUFF ready so you can spend all day on Saturday having a yard sale and/or donating the stuff that has kept you from finding many things you knew were out in the garage somewhere.

Time on the other hand is different. It is given freely, for a price, or is taken and becomes lost. Time is a lot of things but patience is not one of it’s better qualities. Time decides “how long” and gives no more. It is gone. Take close heed of your time. Once spent it can not be spent again.

Stop, find your quiet place, relax, decompress and allow any stress to leave your space.   Clear current thoughts. Breath. Repeat your key word like “OHM” over and over while watching your breathing pattern slow down. Now choose what you want to focus your mind and energy on. Solve some problem or create an easier solution or a safer solution or a more productive solution. You can even waste some time looking at those animals that seem to pop up every time you take some time to just be, to look at the clouds and say what better way to spend my time right now.

Take some time.

Law of

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Attraction:

(roots in quantum physics)

Thoughts are energy. If you want to use this energy for your good read on and enjoy the moment.

Develop an appreciation for now, the present, today. Value the now. You are only a thought away from changing your whole life.

I have heard many times that you have to live on purpose. Without that you are like a boat with no motor, no power, no compass. The waves carry you wherever they may go without any regard to you or your dreams.

Stay away from self-defeating ways. Think of the good, the positive, your wants, needs and desires. There is awesome power in maintaining a positive mental attitude. The energy of thought can be used to contact the universal spirit, or conscious, and attract good. You can use the synchronicity of your being (your whole self) to attract the object of your attention.

The law of attraction also requires you to practice some things.

1. Know exactly what you want.

2. Ask the universal for it.

3. Feel, know, and see (visualize) the object of your desire is already yours.

4. And the hardest to understand is to be open to receive it and let go of (your attachment to) the outcome.

The universe will manifest your desires.

Deepak Chopra has a book you should read titled “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire” (Harnessing the Infinite Power of coincidence). The book sets up and describes the self (soul) and the universal soul. The book refers to synchronicity in nature, desires and methods to obtain the level of consciousness making fulfillment more than (mere) coincidence. This coincidence is more like synchrodestiny and likened to the non-visible universe. The idea that we can only believe what is material or physical evaporates with the new concept (new to us) that the universe is pure potential. It can occur without space/time requirements. It is. Just like I am and you are.

Carl Jung is known for his development of synchronicity in analytical psychology. He described synchronicity as an “acasual connecting principle” and as an “acasual parallelism”. He felt the principle gave proof (or conclusive evidence) for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious. He thought it was descriptive of the governing dynamic that underlies the complete human experience (and history) - social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. He also that individuation was required for a person to become whole. [another law] Individuation was the central concept of analytical psychology.

One of Jung’s favorite quotes on synchronicity was from “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll where the White Queen says to Alice “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwords”. When I read that it led me to start thinking about an Alice and a Sally (mother and daughter, both important people in my life). Jung believed firmly that these “coincidences” happen all the time. I remember really liking the song by Police “Synchronicity” and a “music video” by Tom Petty about “Alice in Wonderland” and another song by Jefferson Airplane that my wife (former) played for me the first time I heard it. She was in Charleston, South Carolina and I called her from King Salmon, Alaska.  It was about 1:00 A.M. her time.

I also remember that cat asking Alice where she wanted to go and getting the response from Alice that she really did not know. This led to the cat saying then it really does not matter which way you go.  Atypical coincidences? Jung also emphasized the importance of harmony and balance, the whole person.   

There is an effort going on to find, witness, observe what is called the “God” boson. Particle colliders are set up to race “particles” faster and faster towards each other until they approach the speed of light. At that time the scientists will make the particles collide with each other to see what happens.   A collider is a type of a particle accelerator involving directed beams of particles. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. anyway some folks think this is a silly thing to do. maybe that is why the new one is way under ground and has taken so long to build and get ready to use.

In particle physics, bosons are particles which obey Bose–Einstein statistics; they are named after Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein. Another name for the unseen boson is the Higgs boson named after “theory” physics from Higgs and Einstein. The Higgs boson is the basic “force”, or unit, that is touted as the elemental basis of our universe.  

Einstein’s theory is now very well established as the correct description of motion of relativistic objects, that is those traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

Because most of us have little experience with objects moving at speeds near the speed of light, Einstein’s predictions may seem strange. However, many years of high energy physics experiments have thoroughly tested Einstein’s theory and shown that it fits all results to date.

From the SLAC website - In fact Einstein’s relationship tells us more, it says Energy and mass are interchangeable. Or, better said, rest mass is just one form of energy. For a compound object, the mass of the composite is not just the sum of the masses of the constituents but the sum of their energies, including kinetic, potential, and mass energy. The equation E=mc2 shows how to convert between energy units and mass units. Even a small mass corresponds to a significant amount of energy.

  • In the case of an atomic explosion, mass energy is released as kinetic energy of the resulting material, which has slightly less mass than the original material.
  • In any particle decay process, some of the initial mass energy becomes kinetic energy of the products. end SLAC para.

There is a simple “awesome” fact that a gram is equal to  24.9 million kilowatt-hours. 

From me, the question would be ”Is either real or it is electrical?” From a non layperson (nuclear, energy physics, particle) the initial “mass” energy becoming the kinetic energy of the products is probably a second-natured law. I do remember something about the human body creating energy converting “stuff” we eat and burning calories. Another law about energy.  

The total amount of mass–energy in a closed system remains constant because energy cannot be created or destroyed and, in all of its forms, trapped energy has mass. According to the theory of relativity, mass and energy as commonly understood are two names for the same thing, and one is not changed to the other. Rather, neither one appears without the other. When energy changes type and leaves a system, it takes its mass with it

I have also read that we basically will cause more chaos as human existence continues because we bring more disorder into our world by using up high-quality energy resources and then replace it with lower, or poor quality, energy. Sort of like I eat for energy and I release lower grade matter into the earth. Eventually the finite resources we use become depleted from the ecosystem.  

When we die our matter becomes CO. But where does our “real” energy go? I digress I guess but I believe that our energy does change as we leave our earthly plane. I think we become an infinite potentiality (again). 

I have been reading a lot about dark energy and it is awe-inspiring to me as a lay person. The concept is that at the instant of “the big bang” the calculated matter (mass) that created the universe only accounts for some 10% of what should be. This gives rise to the idea of some 90% not visible which was named dark energy/dark matter. Conceptually, the invisible has an infinite potential to become instantaneously whatever is needed. Sort of like kinetic, or resting, energy.

The idea of space/time not affecting everything is scary, voiding a lot of scientific laws. It is like watching “Flash Gordon” if anyone remembers that show. A later “space” movie came along that I watched probably 15 times over the years called “2001 A Space Odyssey “. The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of four novels and two films created from 1948 to 1997, primarily by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Without thinking about it I named a major database and software project repository “HAL9000″, a coincidence I guess. Another example was a TV show called “Star Trek”. I believe I watched every segment or series installment. I even met some of the characters later in life while attending a computer show. My mind was captured by the information and specials from or about Carl Segan, especially a series about the brain and how it performed things like a computer system. All coincidental to me even having the idea of getting into computing (computers and systems). I went to take pre-entrance testing with a friend who wanted to get into the computer field. He didn’t pass the exams but I did. If I had not gone basically in support of him, I would not have even taken the computer field testing process. Another coincidence, maybe.    

My most “strange” feeling, other than feeling the presence of Picasso (one of my favorite painters) about a minute before I heard on the radio he had just died or hearing over the loud speaker at school while in chemistry class that Kennedy had been killed when not heard by anyone in the class until about a minute later when the message was repeated, come to think of it I have had a lot of these strange feelings (or coincidences). Oh, back to the strangest feeling I have had (so far). I remember having a shuttering inside when I read Chopra and Jung discussing many concurrent incarnations happening at the same time. Basically concurrent worlds unknown to each other. Though not totally messed up in the head I have had those same thoughts before about slightly out of sync (so we would not know it) worlds going on here at the same time.   

The concept of infinite potentialities is beyond most current thinking, but not for my mother. She went to school until the sixth grade before “staying home” while her sister continued school. She was helping the household by being home cleaning and cooking.

She had a simple thought or principle that she shared with me after we talked about a dream she had which bothered me. I asked her what I could do to prepare for things she “foresaw”. She said her dreams always came true though the meanings sometimes had to be uncovered (the subconscious talking to the conscious). She said that she had dreamed about me and my marriage but did not tell me.

Later she told me she dreamed of having another child but she knew that could not be true because she had an operation (hysterectomy). Then she found that she had contracted cancer (third generation at the same age) instead of being pregnant. She told me she had another dream that the news was the real reason for her dream. She was told she would have hard days ahead but she would not die of this cancer.

 Her doctor told me after some chemo and cobalt treatments the cancer had left a fairly large hole where good tissue was destroyed while trying to stop/kill the cancer. He said it had entered all her lymph-nodes and there was no chance for her to survive. His estimate was she had less than two months left, they had done everything possible to stop or kill the cancer to no avail. He said I should think about what I heard and decide whether to tell my family. I said no I won’t be telling them.

He had the family come to a conference room a couple of weeks later. He gave us all the “bad news”. He asked my sisters whether they had been having regular checkups since this was an obvious genetic concern. My sisters looked at each other and I could tell they had not really thought about that. My sister closest to my age said she had cancelled her checkup, my other sister said she had not scheduled one. The doctor told my sisters and my aunt (mother’s sister) they should now make it a clear priority.

Though I can’t remember the oncologist’s name he became a Christian because of my mother. The next week he said he noticed what appeared to be a glow around her head on his rounds and thought it was because his eyes were tired because he came by after his regular work schedule to see her. He thought he needed to get his eyes checked because that “glow” occured three days in a row.

 He heard the nurses talking about patients from several floors coming by to talk with her and ask for her prayers.

His next series of testing showed the cancer had stopped spreading. It had gone into “remission”. He asked me to come by on my way to see her and told me “this really is a miracle”, the cancer has stopped spreading.

He was the head of the cancer organisation at our medical university and state cancer society president during this period of time.

This is being shared as background for the wisdom my mother gave me. She said that in my life time people would actually be killing others over tennis shoes and the country would have a bad time like the depression was for her. I asked her what I could do to prepare for this. She said I could not prepare. She said all I could do is go forward trusting in God and “simply believe“. That is all you have to do. We never talked about it again.

I hope that you leave this article (blog post) with a reason to believe that anything really is possible.

With love and best wishes for you today.

  

               

Recession, Depression. So what?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Obama won the bid for president. The stock market fell below 9000. Microsoft lost $24 billion in capitalization in 17 days. Several insurance and banking concerns had to have federal bailouts. Some more than once.

They say it will probably take four to five years to even out. That is a pretty hard thing to imagine for the average “Joe”. Many lost their retirement savings from stock management funds. Many lost their jobs.

How can we ever repay the debt we have incurred?

All you can do is double your efforts to keep yourself afloat and try to help those you can.

The mismanagement that caused this situation will not go away. The people who caused most of the problems will be the biggest losers.

Even if they get big compensation packages they will be in dire straights with knowing they caused so much grief and  hardship. Our part is easy. We just forgive the transgressors and move on with our lives. Forgiving can be pretty hard with the holidays coming but the purpose of these “holidays” is to realize what we do have and be thankful.

  

Energy! Einstein said nothing happens til something moves.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Check your ATTITUDE

Then 
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I was sent the bulk of this as a “read this” and decide whether you want to delete it or share it.
Obviously I want to share it and add some of my thoughts to it.

READ THIS

LET IT REALLY SINK IN

John is the kind of guy you love to hate.  He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.  When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ‘If I were any better, I would be twins!’

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, ‘I don’t get it!’

‘You can’t be a positive person all of the time.  How do you do it?’

He replied, ‘Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or…you can choose to be in a bad mood

I choose to be in a good mood.’

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or…I can choose to learn from it.  I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or…I can point out the positive side of life.  I choose the positive side of life.

‘Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,’ I protested.

‘Yes, it is,’ he said. ‘Life is all about choices.  When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations.  You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line:  It’s your choice how you live your life.’

I reflected on what he said.  Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, ‘If I were any better, I’d be twins…Wanna see my scars?’

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

‘The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,’ he replied. ‘Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices:  I could choose to live or…I could choose to die. I chose to live.’

‘Weren’t you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?’  I asked.

He continued, ‘…the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a dead man’.  I knew I needed to take action.’

‘What did you do?’ I asked.

‘Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,’ said John.  ’She asked if I was allergic to anything ‘Yes, I replied.’ The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.  I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity”.

Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live.  Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.’

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude…I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.’ Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

I learned from a “much read” Bible, “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem” by Wayne W. Dyer and another book titled “Think and Grow Rich”.

You have some choices now if you want to make them:

01. Get a Bible; use it
02. Get Wayne Dyer’s book; use it
03. Get this book (Think and Grow Rich) from me on 17 rules; use it
04. Go read my other blog articles

Express your self by sitting quietly, clearing your mind of all your thought chatter (”meditate” as Deepak Chopra says), then listen to your Anima (animus, Eros, Logos and soul-image). Check your Attitude (readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain way, based on the underlying psychological orientation). Use your basic psychological functions: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation and Intuitive Types. The whole psychology of an individual is his habitual ATTITUDE! Be a better friend, adapt, and forget about ego as possible. Energy, motion, and soul can accomplish so much.

Stand above the crowd! Express who you really are, not what you can accumulate materialistically.

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December 1, 2007

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Here we are again counting down the 25 days til Christmas. The big items this year Wii, iPhone, flat screen/plasma TV, Sony game systems, Xbox. Those are just in the electronics category!

There are other big things in the countdown that will be hugh in 2008 like buying up bandwidth frequencies, industry mergers/takeovers by players like Google, IBM, Microsoft.

“The Joneses” are getting pretty hard to keep up with for the growing “lower class” wage earners. Then again, we earn 10-20 times as much as workers in many countries for the same jobs. Maybe it is getting to be time to take a hard look at vanity, what we want to become. Human-KIND is my vote on what we should want to become!

Entertainment and Information, still the big ticket items that involve almost everyone. Ever wonder why there is such a small profit margin on staples like groceries, yet high profits are taken on discretionary items. Real or imagined, supply and demand continues.      

Sunshine and Haze

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

by Curran

A Positive Mental Attitude

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Napoleon Hill wrote that having a positive mental attitude was one of the requirements to be a success. His formula was proven over and over with the many people he interviewed over the years of his research.

I found myself in a quiet place today going over my resume and “became” philosophic as I peered over my “business” life. I started to think of the high points of my career and the high points of my life.

There seemed to be a pattern or cycle that repeated about every ten years. A high in career presence may not have meant a personal “life” high. There were times when my job required a focus that took away from family and personal core meaning.

I had to work long hours and did little else with more than one employer. I was in a constantly changing career (Information Technology) where the knowledge base changed frequently. Technology started to far exceed the capacity of people’s ability to use it in a timely manner.

If you stayed with the same company for any length of time it became a given that you would miss some leaps in capability because you were buried in the company’s political and technological stresses.

Great strides were made in short order with hardware capability, software and technology specifically designed for types of businesses like retail, energy, and healthcare.

My company purchased one of the first IBM micros to be used for statistical analysis. It only did very few “things” and I didn’t hold much hope for it becoming much in the future. You see my viewpoint was a little cloudy as I was working with and managing two mainframe IBM computer systems.

My viewpoint also became cloudy in my personal life as I was working 80 or more hours a week on a frequent basis. It is easy to get sucked into believing you are making a real difference and that you have to put in the time.

My first shock came when I progressed from a night shift operator up through the ranks to become the director in charge of the whole IT department. About six months after I achieved my lofty perch and pomp, the president of my company (and major stock holder) decided to sell the company.

I worked with the senior people at the company that was “absorbing us” and was offerred a position with them for like salary and position. I never questioned the offer or asked for anything in writing.

Once I had assisted the IT management at the take-over company in obtaining and validating all of the information and financial closeouts, it seemed like a good time to get the specifics of when to come to the new city and company.

When I called there was silence on the other end of the phone for what seemed a long time followed by “you should probably get on a plane and get up here so we can talk.”

That was like being hit hard in the stomach. I struggled to finish the day and go home. I didn’t talk about my feeling with my wife. I just told her I had to go to “my new headquarters” to discuss the transition and meet with management.

As it turned out they did not offer me what they had initially said and I decided not to accept the offer. I did get a call later in the week after I made my decision from the president of the new company. He said that he normally did not get involved with what the IT vice president (and his 4 assistant vice presidents) did on personnel decisions but he wanted my to know that he thought I made the right decision.

To get to a summation in this I will say all the “time” with work did cause my marriage to fail. And the same sort of thing happened again…about ten years later. I did learn that there is no more important action or decision in life than to keep your core being or self in the forefront of any major decision.

In order to be at peace, be happy, and experience lasting joy it is a requirement to maintain a positive mental attitude. Moreover, keep your major “life guiding principles” steadfast in any important decisions you would make. Life is not a rehearsal. There is only one life for you to live. Live it well!

         

Science, Technology, Life, DNA

Friday, September 28th, 2007

This particular post is being placed in all my categories (as of September 27, 2007) as it applies to you just as much as me.

I started working on this post on a sheet of paper (an envelope) from a birthday card I received last week. My birthday is September 23rd and presented a good time for reflection.

I thought about my earlier “experiences” with art (paintings, music, books, TV, radio, cartoons in the newspaper, movies). I especially loved Picasso, future stuff, Flash Gordon, the Disney cartoons and movies, “2001, A Space Odyssey”, the Bible, Carl Sagen, baseball, GI Joe, “The Flying Purple People Eater”, Mickey Mantle, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Jean. And they were all site and sound!

I have been a truly fortunate person. I have experiences that I still hold in memory. They are better than watching the latest high definition digitally encoded movie on CD for the “unpteenth” time. Some memories actually come with smells, touches, tastes, perfect audio and video!

Think for a moment about something that became truly mapped into your brain, psyche, and soul. Something along the lines of the birth of a child or the thrill of “knowing” you created a positive, lasting experience. What about the “experience” of discovery, freedom, faith? Something as simple as swinging on a swing (at home, a park, or on a tree rope over a lake or pond) or hitting a home run bring in all the senses, known and unknown.

Our capacity to learn, know, be unique, yet the same, is truly amazing! I have learned that the strength of positive inner feelings and mental attitude are far more powerful than negative ones. The negative ones are like weeds. They just grow when we do not engage in intentionally planting and growing the good, positive ones.

I created a web page that is a collection of some of the articles and thoughts I have “experienced” in this my birth month. I hope you take the time to visit soon at my web page.

Even this commercial brings thoughts flooding in on a very personal level,
GreatSkin.com

Sleepy Hollow? Soft, smooth, fragerant, tight, tanned skin? Richard Scary, Stephen King? Star Trek, Star Wars? Bats, Batman? Pumpkins, Jack-o-lanterns? It could go on and on the longer you look at the advertisement.      

  

Who’s quotes do you think of subconsciously?

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Goals, values, clarity, success, self-trust, self-esteem, intent, action, harmony, integrity, and beliefs are some of the types of quotes that come to my mind.

World leaders, writers, and sales people (advertising even) come up with sayings that stick over time to become part of what we believe in leading our lives. Some examples that have been with me for most of my life are as follows:

  • “Simply believe” - my mother
  • “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.” - Muhammad Ali
  • “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” — Anthony Robbins
  • ‘Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.’  — Bruce Barton
  • “Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action.” - Henry Chester
  • If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the whole universe. - Druidic Axiom
  • “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus 
  • “I believe we all have greatness in us and our “life task” is to dig deep (into ourselves) and find the greatness that is within. It is here we find peace and purity of purpose, our true self. This quiet place inside is where we find that all things are possible. Our journey begins when we take our very first step towards our dream to make it reality.’ - MD Floyd

The previous one (MD Floyd) is one I made up some time ago after several setbacks and disappointments in people I trusted, as well as, myself. Life is so much better when you imagine no limitations and you create your picture of living.