Happiness can become a personal reality the moment you take your mind off things that you can do nothing about and start noticing the Beauty and the light of life right in front of you.

Angels are watching!!  We had a fun drive over to Orlando today to drop magazines off for the www.IANDS.org near death conference this weekend. A guy in a newer car in front of us lost his left rear tire on 192, it went careening onto the median strip across 3 Lanes of traffic, synchronistically going in between cars  at JUST the perfect time. The driver got off the road safely, narrowly missing a bicyclist who stopped JUST at the last minute. It was a divine dance and we watched it unfold in almost slow motion. This was at 12:30pm lunchtime traffic in Kissimmee, that entire scene was blessed for sure.

“At some point in my life I decided, rightly or wrongly, that there are many situations in this life that I can’t do much about — acts of terrorism, feelings of nationalistic prejudice, Cold War, etc. — so what I should do is concentrate on the situations that my energy can affect.” – Jim Henson

Ya Gotta Learn To Shake It Off. No Matter Who is Elected, No Matter What The Universe Throws My Way, I’ll Make The Best Of It and Be So Strongly The Attractor of My Own Experience That Nothing Less Than Good Times Will Come My Way

One thing I noticed this election season has done which was never so apparent before Facebook because now we can see it in black and white: very many people are eager to have a discussion on controversial issues but cannot seem to do it without name-calling, bullying and harassing those who hold opposing viewpoints. It is like that is the go-to first comment, they do not even ease into it. It’s good to know what’s hidden just below the surface. What is inside us will eat us up if we do not let it out, but we can do it gently as a snail who leaves a little trail or we can just do it like bursting a zit in everyone’s face. I like seeing how people are under pressure.

This week I bought two pairs of white pants. I wore a pair yesterday and then this morning I saw them side by side on the hangers and wondered which I’d worn yesterday. Upon closer inspection I saw grass cuttings and knew which they were. That reminded me since I’m not used to wearing white I need to really pay attention when I am. So this morning on my way into town I stopped at a friend’s house to prune and water. Yep, wearing white pants. I’ve usually got jeans on in the yard so I found myself having to be very careful not to drag the dirty hose across them or get grass stains in the pocket from the pruners. When I wear jeans it doesn’t matter. I can just go at it and get dirty and it doesn’t show.  I found wearing white a good exercise in being mindful what I let touch me and rub off on me. That was a good meditation on many levels.    Continue reading →

Yesterday the Brevard County, FL School Board voted on an anti-discrimination policy and it passed. BLESSED PROGRESS!!  The policy names LGBT students and staff as a new protected class that already exists for minorities and the disabled. The folks in a neighborhood Facebook watch group think having transgender rights means boys will be free to walk into the girls’ bathrooms “any day they decide they identify as a female,” expose themselves and molest their daughters. That’s a crime issue. Criminals will use any excuse to get on a scene to commit a crime. If there’s a crime issue in school bathrooms, address that, remedy that. Discrimination is not the fix.   The first fix is educating yourself on the topic. Continue reading →