February 2016 Blog Posts (18)

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

I am back and much better than I was last week. My spine Doctor’s steroid shot has helped a lot I am able to…

“If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”

Meister Eckhart

Hi everyone. I don’t know about you but my world has gotten a lot better. For the first time…

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

My spine doctor gave me a steroid shot in my spine to hopefully reduce…

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

John Lubbock

This is a big week for me. I see my Spine Doctor today, Neurologists tomorrow and eye surgery on Thursday. I am looking forward to some positive…

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

I have been concerned lately that I am getting too use to not doing much. I love the daily naps and find it easy to…

It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Hans Selye

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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

Anne Frank

I was thinking the other day that some of the most interesting and warmest folks I know I met while volunteering. The thing these people have in common is the…

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

Marcus Aurelius

Seems like I have been energy deficient forever even though it has really only been a matter of a few months. We have a lot of…

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

If I had one recommendation to make after all these years it might be “Don’t sweat the small stuff”. It seems that far too many of us are quick…

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

Carl Reiner

Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras 2016 are now history. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday for Christians throughout the world and marks the beginning…

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

George Eliot

I am a little brain dead this…

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

Marcus Aurelius

Here we go again, another day. My highlight is going to be a visit to my ophthalmologist to follow-up on my cataract operation on…

It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.

Author unknown

I just learned from a good friend’s daughter that her dad passed away…

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Aristotle

When I wrote that I was feeling a little down because of what I was not doing or could not do lately a friend wrote and suggested that I just accepted todays…

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

It was a long day yesterday at the doctors, the results being more tests, more appointments…

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins

It is another one of those days; I have an early appointment with my dentist outside of the city followed by a visit to the Brain…

Some folks arrive into our lives and depart leaving footprints on our hearts and we are in no way ever the very same.

Flavia Weedn

Yesterday I learned that one of my favorite people passed away after a long fight against…

“Keep your heart always warm.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

Today is February first and as happens every year I woke up…