Keep your seat; it's the best one

1. Why are there words like chance and accident if there are no such things?

2. Be the traffic you wish to see in the world.

3. Wanting more stuff than you have makes you poor. Not wanting stuff at all makes you rich. You will always have enough if you think so.

4. Can you carry the burden of freedom?

5. Sometimes things can look different when absolutely nothing has changed.

6. You are the world. If there is no you, there is no world.

7. There are many errors to be made in child rearing. Too many perhaps to mention or list end to end across the world. If one must choose to error in child rearing, I choose to error with kindness.

8. Don't look to follow others. Look closer at why they were going there. And make sure to always take the highroad.

9. Is your task to seek or to find? Can you be one without the other and be happy?

10. Love is not a final state of being. Love is a constant state of vulnerability. Love is the reason we are all here. Love is the last thing to go.

Counting the Steps is fun

I love this pedometer. Yesterday I registered in at 1798 steps -- and today --at 10:24 PM --

Four Thousand, Four hundred and Thirty Six!!

The average person, depending on where you get your information, walks between 3,000 to 5,000 steps a day. So I went from lazy sluggish lady to average in one day! That is radical!

I'm keeping this thing!

I will probably have 5,000 before I go to bed tonight.

I did find that I had to do one minute sets of marching in place to get my numbers up. Even though I watch a three year old for 5 hours, I don't walk enough.

I wish I could find other little gadgets to wear to encourage me to do other things right in my life. Wonder if I could invent something?

And I have walked 10,000 miles

(not)

I got another Pedometer. I keep losing the ones I have -- before I can figure out really just how lazy I am. This one I have now, actually came with my husband's newest shoe inserts, so I don't know if it's a good one, but that already sounds like an excuse. Which, I guess, I'm probably trying to give myself because I didn't get very many steps measured on it today.

1798.

That's not a year. That's how many (almost) steps I took today.

That's not so great. That means, I am a sedentary person. The goal is 10,000 steps, which is about equivalent to 5 miles, if you can believe this site.

I don't know who decides these things, but I don't think 10,000 steps could hurt anyone, and of course, within reason, one must have a goal to gauge by to accomplish anything.

The Challenge is On! I'm going to try to increase my steps. Of course, it would probably help if I did wear it all the time. The pedometer, that is. I forgot in the morning that I had intended to wear it today, and took it off before the evening was done, but I doubt seriously if I've done anything record breaking in the amount of time that is unaccounted for.

Anyway, I'm going to challenge myself. Do the marching in place, or who knows, maybe join a marching band because I really don't want to be known as Sedentary.

You know, it's not like I never walked as an exercise before, but it seems that once something throws me off, I have a tough time getting back on track. So I kind of like this plan -- the first suggestion is just to ~walk out the door~. How clever.

So the challenge is on. I'm upping my steps.

I'm also trying to do the Bar Method DVD every other day. That is hard for me. I've not gotten through the whole thing yet!! And I've already misplaced Tape No One. Hope that wasn't a mental ploy on my part.

Anyway, I'm trying. My back injury seems okay. The other side hurts now, so that's a good sign.


Pedometer challenge, anyone?

Things in a week

1. Is an empty refrigerator better than a refrigerator that's full of stuff you need to throw away? Yes. If that wasn't too obvious...
This new assignment I've given myself of using everything in my refrigerator just isn't working. So I started a compost pile.

2. This week seemed super long. It's very hot and humid here, maybe that's why, I don't know. Also, I'm experiencing not feeling so great. I'm suspecting my air conditioning filters needed to be changed more often. I live on a dirt road...so maybe that? I don't know, but I'm going to be more attentive to that.

3. Some things I've noticed --

a. No one has ever asked me what my work out routine is or what beauty products I use. Should I feel offended?

b. Of all the Gallup Polls mentioned? No one has ever polled me. They keep talking about polls on the news, and nope, no calls or sign up sheets have I experienced. How do they poll you? On the street? Only in big cities? I live in a very small town. Maybe they don't know we are here.

4. If I make a new recipe, everyone loves it and eats it all gone. If I double it the next time, no one eats it. They say, 'it tastes different.' So I don't double anything any more. Something about doubles does not work in my cooking.

5. I've added plants in my garden that I have found on the side of the road. They seem happy here, and I like having them. (Actually, I'm broke right now, and plants for free seemed a 'yippy-yay!' kind of a thing.)

6. Thought on food/mind/body connection. There are those who believe that even if you put the most healthy foods into a body with a crummy mind, your result will be a crummy body; but if you put crummy foods into a body with a good mind of expanded awareness, you get a fine body.

I just don't know about that. That would have to be one very, healthy mind expanded in the most holy of awareness.

7. I'm beginning to think that searching for happiness is not a useful journey. To search for something implies you can't see it, or don't have it. If happiness is not within, then it's without, how would you be able to keep it when you finally find it if it's not in you in the first place?

So then, it makes sense that happiness is within and you don't have to search for it, because you walk around with it everyday, you only need to let it out.
Smiles let it out. Laughter lets it out. Kindness lets it out.
Just BEING you, this moment, right now - smile and that is happiness.

8. I like to walk in the rain. It's just so refreshing. I like all kinds of rains. I bought my daughter some really, really cute rain boots and she put flowers in them! Silly girl.

9. Isn't it funny? We go forward in our lives as that is the proper way to live it. But it is the going backwards in our lives that helps us in the learning of how we are actually living it.

10. What will you focus on today. What kindness will you pass along? Will you smile today? Will you hug someone today? I'll try it today. I'll start out good, I always start out good. The morning holds the invitation delivered in warm and wonderful light. The afternoon carries the things unknown into the cavaran that takes you to the evening time. The choices are made in there. On the ride. Choose wisely.

One Life to Live

Regarding our weather conditions here in Sunny Florida, Lake Okeechobee still 4 ft below what she needs to be at this time of year. We have been getting rain in our area, so our plants and our grass look great, even though we are still having a water shortage. And people continue to waste water.

It's amazing about the human species to me. They do not seem to participate to the greatest good of mankind unless the threat is standing at the door with a loaded weapon. What is up with that?

It seems to be a running theme. Does no one realize the train is going to come?

I guess it's their right – our right - to play the game of chance. You only have one life. No matter what you believe, whether it's what the Bible says, "it is appointed unto man once to die" - one life -

and if you believe in reincarnation (and in that, are their ways to come back as a bug? yuk), unless you are a high, high incarnate, you won't have an awareness of the passing - so one life,

and if you believe in 'once you're dead, you're dead' - still, one life.

So good luck with that. We have One Life to Live. How are you going to live it? To the fullest? I don't think I've lived life to the fullest yet!! Maybe today that will be what I will try to do.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca

It's raining thanks to TS Barry

It's raining, it's pouring....on the first day of Hurricane Season, too. What timing, huh?

This is wonderful (in a way). There is a tropical storm (Barry) about 320 miles from Tampa - which probably isn't true about the distance now because it's moving.

They say this rainfall will only help a little bit. We need about 35 inches of rain/or more. I believe that is a lot of rain.

I really hope people can be sensible about going out in bad weather.

It's really weird how good things and bad things collide.