Daily Jots

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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson
I have to admit, I never quite thought of it that way. I really don’t like change because the familiar is safe I guess. Changing things leaves a lot of room for surprises and I’m not big on those either. I am a planner… big time. I like to plan everything. I guess that goes back to something I talked about a few weeks ago. I don’t like making mistakes so if I don’t change anything, there is less chance of mistakes occurring.
It seems that I …read more

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“I was thinking about butter the other day.
And not just butter, but things in general. But mainly butter. Butter, as it often does, started the thought process.
How did we get butter? I mean, sure, it seems like an obvious thing nowadays, but centuries ago some guy or gal had to make the first batch of butter, and like many things on this wonderful planet, I don’t understand how it could have first come about.”
This is exactly how my mind works. I see something and then one thought leads to another and then another until I have the …read more

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“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”
Channing Pollock
Those of us in the Baby Boomer generation can remember the Cowardly Lion daring us to eat only one potato chip. So courage changes. One generation it is one thing, the next it is another.

“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus (Consider how thinking outside of the box, is an act of courage in, and of, itself.)
“Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would …read more

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us.”
William Morrow

What makes each of us so unique? There are six billion people on this planet, and not two have the same fingerprint. But that isn’t really all that big of a deal. There are just no two people alike. Every personality, every individual is a one-of-a-kind. That blows my mind.
I believe, that each of us has a unique soul that makes us an individual like no other that has come before or will come again. Being a spiritual …read more

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“I would say that 95% of the stress in our lives relates to our feeling of time poverty.”Stephan Rechtschaffen
There’s never enough time, is there. We rush from one moment to the next. I thought about that tonight when I was talking to my mom on the phone. I had to go because I had to work. Rushing from one thing to the other.
That is nuts.
I spent exactly as much time on the phone with her, talking about how I had to get some things done, as I would have had I just enjoyed …read more

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“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men . . . shall we . . . be able to speak of mankind as civilized.”Albert Einstein
I love finding good Web sites. Ones that are caring, peaceful, and give to their readers. I sure found one today and I want to share it with you. Actually, it is more than a Web site. It is a community of people who are working together to change the world. It is interfaith, …read more

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“Blessed are all the emotions be they dark or bright.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emotions are often regarded as positive or negative. But is that fair to a holistic and well rounded individual. Probably not. We too often consider emotions such as anger, jealousy, and sometimes even sadness, as negative emotions.
A total human being is constructed of all emotions; separating one emotion from another, and declaring some to be invalid, negates more than the emotion. It negates the individual.
I would propose, that it is not the emotion that is negative, but how the emotion is expressed, …read more

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“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”W. Somerset Maugham

I have been reading a bit of W. Somerset Maugham lately.  He was a very interesting man, and a writer worth reading and studying. He was considered an expert at plot; each word was deliberately placed to propel the storyline without sacrificing the story itself.
“I have never pretended to be anything but a story teller. It has amused me to tell stories and I have told a great many. It …read more

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“When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”Krishnamurti

I was interviewed for b5media not too long ago, and was asked the question, “If you could change the world in one significant way, what would it be?”
I would have people listen to each other. We all want the same things. Security, safety, good ways to raise our kids, love people all want those things but they are so unattainable because no one …read more

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