Category Archives: Perspective

This Year Has Everything You Want in Life

This year has everything you want in life.  Are you ready to receive it? Happiness, joy:  The real thing.  Go for it!  Happy New Year!  When you declare it, it is so.  When you are looking for the happiness life … Continue reading

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Double Rainbow

I accelerate onto I-25 for my 20 minute commute to work.  I’m in the sun and there are dark skies to the West.  WOW!  A double rainbow like none I’ve ever seen before!  The morning sun illumination of the coming … Continue reading

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The Life I Love

Oooooo… I have chills just thinking about it:  The life I love.  Where is it?  Oh, it’s HERE! Everything I enjoy is at hand.  My guitar, a good paying job, my wife, my sisters and parents are just a phone … Continue reading

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Gratitude

Gratitude refreshes and gives life. Do you feel it? Gratitude scatters the shadow of loneliness with the light of recognition of the the contribution others are to who we are. And to be fair and complete, gratitude is the recognition of our importance to others, that they thought enough to give something we are grateful for. Continue reading

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Commitment Beyond Hope

Hoping that someone else creates what you would like to have so that you can enjoy it, makes a very nice daydream. Committing to create the life that you love is living fully, walking a path of fulfillment. Create an intent, commit to it, and share it. Then, go for it! Continue reading

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Look for What You Like

When you make your life about what you like that is possible, accessible, and available, then you are actively receiving what life is offering. When our mind strays from this, then our attention is nurturing something we do not like. Continue reading

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A New World

Sitting with Carl, I look at him. “What world are you in now?”, I wonder. With Alzheimer’s, every moment can be a new world. I look in his eyes. He turns his head to gaze out the window. His eyebrows rise, a smile emerges and broadens. Carl chuckles. I follow his gaze to the squirrel clinging on the trunk of the tree, tail twitching. In this moment I enter Carl’s world and I am with him completely. Life is good. Continue reading

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All the Time In the World

Hey! What’s the rush? You have all the time in the world. Are you forgetting that? Continue reading

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A Different Kind of Family

Consider a family of neighbors sharing the end of their journey through their life together, bound to each other by their joy of life and their mortality. Continue reading

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