Purpose

Due to the recent family drama and a basically tough year I have been contemplating what I want to do with my life. I will be 40 in a year and I basically don’t have a career. My husband is the ‘money maker’. He is in the IT business and I am wondering if I [...]

My husband and I were having a somewhat philosophical discussion this morning about expectations we have for our lives and how to best achieve them. I have noticed with myself that the more I think about what I want and what I currently don’t have the more depressed I get. That’s not good. I came [...]

This is what the Dalai Lama had to say about us entering the new millennium. Quite profound really …
Instructions for Life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama:
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, [...]

I found this on the Abe Forum and thought it was a great list to refer back to when feeling like crap. 10 great ideas that are a recipe for a happy life.

Seek joy — first and foremost.
Seek reasons to laugh.
Seek reasons to offer words of praise — to self and others.
Seek beauty in nature, [...]

I actually really want to see the movie, Into the Wild. The story is a bit sad (a Wise Doo read the book and told me what happens - I’m such a cheat!). The Eddie Vedder song is great - Hard Sun. Here is the song with the official trailer.
An Alaskian Adventure …

 
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On Wednesday night I was watching TV and a show came on TLC called Crazy Sexy Cancer. At first I was a bit hesitant to watch it. I really wasn’t in the mood to sit in front of the TV and cry and get depressed but I’m so glad I watched it!
Crazy Sexy Cancer is [...]

I love watching and listening to psychics. I sure wish I had that intuitive ability. I believe we all have it but some people are able to tap into it. Tana Hoy is able to tap into it. Tana Hoy is a psychic and his website has some really great videos and podcasts of actual [...]

We’ve got another great one from the wise and mighty Doo … enjoy!
Passage from the book Better Off by Eric Brende, page 166.
Then I told the tale of the southern fisherman:
“The rich man from the North came by one day and saw the southern fisherman sitting, just sitting by the water. This horrified [...]

After actually seeing the birth of my sister’s new baby I have a true appreciation for how short physical life actually is. As Eckhart Tolle says our lives are just the dash on our tombstones. We tend to think we are here in physical form forever but I believe we come and go. That is [...]

 
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Chocolate in one hand, an umbrella drink in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming …….
*”WOO HOO - What a Ride!!!!**”*
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