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Sunday, August 28, 2011
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Affirmation for today
Sunday, July 24, 2011
What is Important to you?
Have you read this before??? I love this story...
A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2" in diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in to the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed.
He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was. The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
1. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, and your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.
2. The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, your house, and your car.
3. The sand is everything else. The small stuff." "If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks.
The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal."
Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just pebbles and sand.
A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2" in diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in to the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed.
He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was. The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
"Now," said the professor,
"I want you to recognize that this is your life.
1. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, and your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.
2. The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, your house, and your car.
3. The sand is everything else. The small stuff." "If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks.
The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal."
Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just pebbles and sand.
A Step in the Journey: Link Up Here
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Love
you love
“ memories flood in
regrets tug in one direction...
joys tug in another...
how do you hold a lifetime in your hands?
and what do you do now?
maybe you do the only thing that ever really mattered -
you love.
you offer love.
you give love.
you receive love.
you breathe love.
you live love.
you love. ”
~terri st. cloud
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Magic of Summer
It's the first official weekend after the summer solstice (June 21st). Time to celebrate the magic of the Sunshine!What is the magic of summer? For me it's the slower pace of life, the ocean breezy evenings filled with laughter, and the cool peaceful mornings.
Here's my list of a few things that make summer magical for me:
--chatting with friends on walks outside, (around the corner or at the beach!)
Here's my list of a few things that make summer magical for me:
--chatting with friends on walks outside, (around the corner or at the beach!)
--strawberries and blueberries
--homemade ice cream
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| beach sunflower |
--fresh picked flowers from the garden
--flea and art markets
--road trips
--butterflies (always!)
--flea and art markets
--road trips
--butterflies (always!)
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| river snail |
--campfires and s'mores
--open doors = fresh air
I am planning to enjoy this year!
--open doors = fresh air
I am planning to enjoy this year!
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| zebra longwing butterfly, Florida's state butterfly |
I would love for to hear what makes summer magical for you, leave a comment and a photo if you have one....
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Wildflowers
I love wildflowers! we often miss seeing them as we sometimes just pass by, here are a few I found and took a photo of on a walk...
I picked some wild flowers the other day to make a bouquet for the house. I cut and trimmed and did my best to arrange them perfectly but no matter how hard I tried - just wasn't the same. So not like the store bought ones... you can't mold wild f...lowers into anything, they are just wild and after picked they quickly droop. Like people. We are born wild, but yet along the way - tried to assimulte into society and loosing our roots we quickly droop as well. Our spirit slowly dies and our souls morn for the "good ol days". Free people stand up for themselves and have principles keep growing like the wild flower.... following the sun and adapting to their enviroment, finding beauty in their growth and being who they are regardless of how many thorns they are delt. We can't change people. We can manilpulate for a while, bribe, steal, degrade, and abuse.... but these actions will bring short term freedom and happiness. It is like picking the wild flower from a field and making your own. Wild flowers in na vase quickly looses it's color and life. We can only truly make change with one word. LOVE! Love the flowers excatly where they are regardless of the weeds around them.. Love/ Acceptance will be the seed that sets strong roots in order to have truth growth toward the Sun or Son! And inside you will find your God excaty they way you were meant to be. Free - free to help others, free to help yourself ... free to be you! However you are!!
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