Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’

My Brother Jim And the lessons he taught me, and still teaches me     The story is told that when Jim was three years old, when asked what he wanted for Christmas, he said, “A baby brother!” In October of 1947, he got his wish. And I was that lucky person. Jim took his…

The other day, as I was walking my 200 steps from my house to Yoga Space, I passed by Mary Stevenson’s yard. I looked over at her beautiful garden, and saw a sign in her yard. I had seen it many times before, but saw it again for the first time. It read: “Love thy…

Can you move beyond the labels others place on you? Yes you can. It’s a trait we were all born with. All we need do is 1) realize it, and 2) rise beyond it. What, are you stupid or something? You are such an idiot. Don’t even bother trying to do that. You are too…

I have less than a week to both create, and fulfill my 69-year bucket list, as on October 21, 2016, I will be 69 years old. (More about this later.) As I never fail to tell everyone when they have their birthday, you are celebrating the end of however many years you call yourself on…

We have all been sick at one time or another, but as children, a “get well” routine is established, usually by our mothers. For me it went like this:   I would lay in my bed, and every few hours my mother would come in, feel my head to determine if I had a fever.…