Or perhaps places if you are so fortunate? I suppose that right about now you are wondering why I would want to write a blog entry about going home. For some, that could be exactly what I am talking about… but the point I am going to try and make tonight is not about going [...]
Or perhaps I should say that I am stepping up the ritual from something that already exists. It is no revelation that resentments are an ongoing problem in my life. I would imagine that they are a problem in most lives but it would probably be best if I concentrated on my own before worrying [...]
It is the most appropriate way to bring one’s thinking to a nice normal steady pace. Perspective is necessary. It is vital. It is rewarding and relieving. It is realistic next to the extremes of fantasy and fear. It is like a little bit of meditation, a good relaxing walk or the result of a [...]
I figure I’ll get more accomplished if I do. So what brought this on? Well… the most common sense path for me towards happiness is the knowledge that my life is a classroom. I have always been a student with a desire to retain and excel. On the days that I am learning, growing, achieving [...]
Ok, not exactly breaking news. I try to avoid reading or listening to the news. I find, at least in our country, that we have crossed over a line of exaggeration and judgment that may not ever be crossed back again. It pains me to watch the time and effort (not to mention money) wasted [...]
… as long as one doesn’t over-indulge in being motivated… I am most definitely not alone in stress department. One doesn’t have to be insanely busy to experience the tensions of modern life. Even though stress is most obvious in a work-a-day world… where deadlines and demands are the common denominator… it lives in the [...]
The current chapter is getting interesting……. I speak of my life as book. Personally I think everyone’s life is some sort of tome. We live in phases and periods. We grow and we change… we have adventures and live through joy and pain, the world around us morphing in grand or sometimes very ambiguous ways. [...]
Today I had a light bulb moment. There are pieces of life that sometimes seem to repeat themselves over and over and over. When this happens a multitude of questions will fill my head and invariably my notebook journal as I work feverishly through the ongoing classroom that is my life. “What is wrong with [...]
I may have to come back in here and read this a few times. I remember years ago when I was newly sober I had a sponsor who insisted that I should pray for patience. Being the good and willing student that I am I would get on my knees nightly (a futile tradition that [...]
And I resent that I resent them. What is the key to happiness? Every so often I believe I have that key and I am able to illustrate what it looks and feels like. Sometimes I lose the image due to temporary memory loss or insanity… and when I am lucky enough to find it [...]