May 11th, 2012
I’m reading The Intention Experiment, by Lynne McTaggert, a great book about how the energy of our thinking creates reality. Not a woo woo book, this, McTaggart goes into way more detail than I need as she writes about dozens of laboratory experiments by doctors and physicists that render proof positive that intention does shape reality.
The theme of the book is that people who are living with cancer (as I am) and other illnesses can literally affect cells and other body parts and guide them into their natural order.
The second book is Take Charge of Your Career! 365 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to Achieve Happiness at Work and in Life, by… me! (Karin Ireland) It’s a small hardcover book ($8.99) available wherever you buy books, packed with helpful tips on having a good life at work and away from work.
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April 30th, 2012
Last night, I went to a group showing of the Dalai Lama: Renaissance (it’s on DVD), where several dozen people, leaders in their fields, went to India to come up with a plan to submit to the Dalai Lama on how to make important changes in the world. Watching these participants, especially one outspoken man you’ll recognize from The Secret, is a good reminder that the ego is not a good leader.
It’s amazing how deeply the Dalai Lama listens when they meet with him. After he has listened carefully, commented thoughtfully, and gotten carried away laughing at something he found funny – almost like a six-year-old boy – he makes his suggestion: Compassion. We can change the world by changing ourselves first and looking at every sentient being with compassion.
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April 25th, 2012
I volunteered to give 20 books away today as part of a national event, World Book Night. Publishers, bookstores, and authors are making specially printed copies of books available for volunteers to give to non-or light readers as a way to encourage them to read more.
I walked Santa Cruz this morning looking for people who I thought might fit that category. Mostly, I targeted men who appeared to be homeless. I had some trouble finding non-readers who wanted to take a book, so I ended up giving them mostly to men who did read, but probably didn’t own a book. I’m not sure if it will make them more avid readers, but it was clear that they appreciated being given a book.
Something humbling that I noticed: Here are men who have little in the world, many of them sleep in the cold, yet many wished God’s blessings on me for my kindness. I am in awe that they, who have so little in the material sense, have so much in a sense of trusting a higher power to be benevolent.
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April 18th, 2012
What are we evolving to as people when a six-year-old kindergartner (girl, black) is taken from school (Fairfax County, GA), hands cuffed behind her back, after she threw a tantrum?
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April 10th, 2012
Is it a case of law before good sense when the Supreme Court decides that elections can be bought?
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April 7th, 2012
It troubles me that the people who are making the laws are wealthy; people who don’t know what it’s like to not have money for rent, or food, or medicine.
It troubles me that the people who are making the laws are well connected; people who have abundant support, opportunities, and possibilities; people who don’t know what it’s like to be homeless, hungry, or ill.
It troubles me that the people who are making the laws live a lifestyle where they truly believe that in today’s America, if you don’t have a job, a home, a car, it’s because you aren’t willing to work hard enough.
It troubles me that the people who are making the laws are so white that they can’t empathize with people who are targeted because they aren’t.
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March 26th, 2012
One thing ends, another begins. Whether the change is good or not depends on the stories we tell.
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March 21st, 2012
The easiest way to keep track of your stuff is to have less stuff.
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March 15th, 2012
A kind neighbor asked me, “If there was once a spark of love between you and your husband, isn’t it worth working hard to try to find it again?” I answered that the love is still there, and we believe that sometimes you show it by saying, “I love you enough to want you to be happy, even if it’s without me.”
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March 11th, 2012
As Francis and I clear our apartment for the next step, we find it easy to part with things that we hung onto because… well, you never know when that particular item might be Just What You Need. But we’re both going to smaller spaces, so it’s easy to let it go. Some things go into bags for Goodwill, but many others end up on top of one of the trash containers in the garage. Or, in the case of larger items, on the ground beside them. It’s so fun to go back a few hours later and see the offering we’ve left has been accepted and will be fun for someone else for awhile.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could do that on a global level — taking what we really want or need and leaving the rest for others?
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