aka Amelie

Yard work is my kind of meditation! Spring time means yard clean-up and prep for a new growing season.  I will gladly be the one in the house to go outside and dig, cut, rake, pile, and dump. This is WAY more fun than dusting or vacuuming.  And always better than cleaning a toilet! I can't tell you what I think about while I'm out there, but it's soothing. I pull weeds individually when I can to avoid using chemicals, aka poison that seeps into our ground water. I happily pick up more stuff from multiple neighbors when there's room.  My way of saying thanks for their help with the snow in winter. I'm a bit of a half pint, with a truck-bed full of stuff, got my gloves and hat on.... So what if I can hardly see over the steering wheel!  ok, I'm not that short, LOL.... It's fun to do all this physical work and have a powerful truck to haul it all around, and get me where I need and want to go. I LOVE driving the truck and confusing the he...

Wowsers, today's reading was very powerful.  I find it particularly interesting because it does not come from a current "self-help" thought leader from the US, but instead a student of Tao and it was published in 1992. The topic is "ACCURACY". The message was kind of standard: Life is short. Make the best of it. BUT, then it pokes us between the eyes and says: WAKE UP! It reminds us that we loose time with each day that passes.  That time is really opportunity to take action. It addresses that some people may doubt this desire or need or action.  But it reminds us that our well-being and life satisfaction depends on it. It reminds us that "All that matters is accomplishing what you envision with the greatest dispatch. ... [W]e must identify our inner longings to dispatch them with a hunter's accuracy." So, what are your 1 or 2 things that you want to accomplish before you die that require a hunter's accuracy?  Maybe it's a bu...