A Walk In My Sneakers

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday
I went to work.
I cleaned my house
I endlessly checked emails, facebook and texts.
I played a couple of games on the computer.
I ate dinner.
I went to bed.
Wasted day.
Something has got to give.

Today
I went to work.
I shared a smile with a stranger.
I looked into the curious eyes of a small child.
I hugged a friend tighter.
I sat and watched a butterfly dance across my garden.
I laughed out loud at complete and total silliness.
I told my husband how much I loved him.
Gifted day.
A much better way to live.

Choices

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

You do it too

I am a medium.
I believe that everyone, to a degree, does what I do all the time and never even realizes it. Let me give you some examples of what I mean.
Hearing.
Have you ever lost something? You look and look but to no avail. Then, later, when you are doing some menial task, it just pops into your head where the item you lost is! -or- You have a difficult project that you're working on. You can't quite get it. You try looking at it from different approaches. You examine the concept again and again and you just can't quite seem to get it. Again, later, doing something else when your mind is free, the answer pops in. THAT'S how I hear things.
Seeing.
If I were to say to you, picture so and so's face. In your mind you would be able to "see" their face. If I were to say, remember something you both did together. You would be able to see a little mini motion picture of that particular event. THAT'S how I see things.
Feeling.
There are a few ways for this one.
Impressions. Emotions. Illness/Injury.
For illness/injury, sometimes I will get an uncomfortable feeling in the area of my body where the person was affected. You know this as the universal....a guy gets hit in the crotch with a ball.
Ever just walk into a room and immediately you can feel the emotions in the "air"? Good or bad, you know it, you feel it.
Impressions are a little different. Ever start talking to a stranger and just gat an impression? Maybe they are strong, funny, happy, a grandmother, a soldier, etc.
You do it too. Recognize it. Welcome it. Embrace it.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Live Without Possessions

What?!!?!

I woke up this morning with this phrase in my head. I've been pondering it ever since. I have always believed that living well and being comfortable wasn't an issue. Live within your means.

Ahhh, live without  the consumption of possessions. I guess that could definitely be an issue. I guess I am rather attached to being comfortable. I know that I could do with much less, in fact I have. Living in my car for a year was a good lesson. Because of that fact I try to appreciate my comforts even more.

I look around the world. There are people with so much more than I have and then again, people without food. Then when a natural disaster hits, we are all very quickly brought to a level playing field. Maybe the universe is once again trying to tell us something.  

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Rest



Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on a summer day listening to the murmur of water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. - John Lubbock
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