I wrote the other day What do you do when friends misunderstand you and don’t want to play anymore? When friends misconstrue what you say, and feel you are coming down on them, being negative, judgmental, feeling superior and being a know it all?  YOU LET IT GO. You don’t hang on to it or try to sort it out or rehash it.  You let it go.   You focus your attention forward on something hopeful and pleasant. You remember it is not your job to fix or educate anyone.  You get yourself back in the vortex and move on. Continue reading →

Yesterday I did my monthly drive to Ocala to bring magazines to Catherine Wendell from Ocala Ghost Walks. Cat makes sure everyone in the Ocala area gets Horizons and we get to catch up in person with what we’ve been doing the past month.  I left the house half an hour later than I meant to and 15 minutes north I realized I did not have my Ocala file with me.  The one with the maps and the piece of paper that had the magazine stack count on it – how many magazines I would be giving to each person I saw that day.  Drat.  But I did have my hard drive with me.  Cat reminded me there was a Staples store right next to Mother Earth Market, where we meet.  I took my hard drive into their copy center and they opened the file and printed my list out. Continue reading →

I read lots of writers every day and I really appreciate someone who knows how to use paragraphs – it makes me want to read their work.  So you think I’d know how to write a readable paragraph myself, right? I tend to use paragraphs like I do thoughts: short blocks of thought with a lot of white space in between.  Before blogging made the scene, I wrote my daily thoughts into a journal, so I spent the first 40 years writing without editing.   Now finally I’m discovering how to do it.  Continue reading →

Last week I ate heavier than I usually do and piled on 4 extra pounds.  I usually stay within a 2 pound range so when I put on my fave jeans, they were kinda tight.  I knew the culprit: I’d eaten mince pie the day before!  I’d put waist darts in the jeans when I bought them 4 years ago, so I simply cut out the waist darts to gimme an extra couple of inches. I’d forgotten the reason I put the darts in the first place was because the waist stretches out in those pants.  So I spent an hour at the post office while mailing packages and doing paperwork, holding my pants up with one hand.  Not cute! Continue reading →

It’s great when we have friends who inspire us to be the best we can be. We love hanging out with those people, don’t we? Actually, why would we hang out with anyone else? It often happens that we outgrow a group we used to belong to as our focus changes. A good rule of thumb is, when it stops being fun, be elsewhere. If the same people no longer hold our interest, it’s time to seek out those who do. That happens pretty often with discussion groups. You have those that are deeply interested and it’s fun to share thoughts and ideas with them. You have those that are open minded and seeking more information. You have those that are more knowledgeable and it’s fun to learn from them. You have those that come just to debate without doing their homework first, and without really trying to understand, they just want to talk. You have those that spend their time theorizing yet never putting anything into practice.

As Ram Dass put it in Grist for the Mill, “It’s like trying to find out how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. Finally, the only thing you can do is become an angel and see how many of your friends can hang out on the pin with you.”

So, how many angels are on your pin?

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