First off, meditation is what I think true prayer is like ( Read more... )

'We are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries. Where did we come from? What happens when we die? Where are we going? What does this mean?' Dan Brown ( Read more... )

I am made up of all my experiences and feelings.  Implicit memory in my forever unconscious ( Read more... )

It sounds like redbaydreamer  is getting a lesson in "living in the moment."
I do believe that taking things one moment at a time does help reduce stress.  My good friend who lost her son to a drunk driver and has given counsel to many who have lost loved ones, told me that sometimes you can look at life as one day at a time, or if that is too hard, then one ( Read more... )

I have 8 dinner plates to use everyday.  They are all hand painted, so no 2 are exactly alike, but even more so, I have only 2 of each of 4 patterns. Two have developed chips, but we still use them.  They are still very useful.   They fit well into my life.  I have a variety of coffee mugs.  Some are for everyday and some are for holidays like ( Read more... )

I spent a wonderful hour with my grandson on Saturday morning.
On Thursday I had been given a container of shells that my mother had collected during the seaside vacations in her life.  From the outside of the plastic container only one shell stood out.  A pretty spiraling shell with blue & white.  So I decided to carefully lay all the shells out to ( Read more... )

Making friends, speaks to trust I believe.  For most of my life it was difficult to trust enough to feel close to a large number of people.  I judged people instead of accepting them and how they were different from me.  I still feel that I need proof that someone is trustworthy before I will let them see me.  Try to protect from being hurt.
As in ( Read more... )

I would not have the patience for these masterpieces.  M absolutely loves carved pumpkins.  Mine are mostly ceramic and keep my house decorated in orange for the holiday.

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This is the title of an interesting article from the Daily Good website today.
Any procrastinator worth her salt would be all over this article.....  that would be me of course.

I watch my grandchildren and wonder about how they are disciplined.  Of course it won't match how I behaved as a parent (dictator.)  But it does make me wonder whether ( Read more... )

I will post some pictures of these marvelous pumpkins.  M has always loved pumpkin carving so he is willing to do lots of work.  The boys were over and they picked their patterns.   One says BOO and the other has flames around the eyes.  Very cool.  M has all the tools needed to scrape out the gookie stuff inside the huge pumpkins and the little ( Read more... )