Posts by Pat:
A lesson from kindergarten…
Here’s a lesson I learned from my childhood …
As I get older, I find myself looking backwards in time for inspiration and lessons from stories, from songs, from clichés to make my life more fun and more meaningful. (Maybe it comes from having been a teacher? from owning a
bookstore?)
Anyway, here’s my take on the childhood song
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”
See what you make of it!
Row, row, row your boat
Waiting, drifting, wishing won’t get me where I want to go. I need to DO what is in front of me to do. This life is my boat. I need to ROW my boat; direct my life.
And in addition to that, I need to row MY boat, not my husband’s, my children’s, my sisters’! (this is sometimes difficult for me!)
Gently down the stream
Yes! My time here on this planet doesn’t need to be a struggle, to be difficult. Gentle will do it because I can go “with the flow.” It is easier than trying to push against the current to go upstream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily
I can pick my attitude. My attitude will affect my experience. And I don’t want to make myself miserable. I can greet my chalIenges with an openness to learning something new or by doing something differently.
I do want to experience my life as HAPPY.
Life is but a dream.
From my current view of life, I see us as spiritual beings having a human experience, to paraphrase Wayne Dyer. And for me, that means that this life is an opportunity to grow, to learn, to make the most of this brief journey.
I have always been intrigued by those books with titles like:
All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat
All I Need to Know I learned from Kiss
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts
What are your favorite “learning” resources? Any pop songs? Books that “speak” to you? Fables? Am I alone in this world of “playing” with words, ideas, stories?
Don’t tell me you’re busy
When someone asks you how you are, do you answer in one of the following three ways? I’m good! I’m fine. Ohhh, busy! What do those three words really mean anyway? Not much in this context! They’re often just meaningless, but polite, space fillers. Imagine eliminating those three words. What would you say instead? How […]
4 Reasons Why Today is Going to be Awesome
Do you agree that your today can be awesome? Here’s my four reasons: 1. THIS IS THE ONLY DAY THAT EXISTS Everything in your life so far actually happened in the present, in the here and now. Likewise everything that will happen in the future will also end up happening in the present. Most […]
What’s Gross National Happiness?
Once upon a time in a country far, far away, lived a most unusual king who proclaimed that Gross National Happiness was more important than Gross National Product. See http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/ In this tiny, isolated, and landlocked Himalayan Kingdom tucked in between India and China, the 4th king of Bhutan oriented its national policy and development […]
Cellphones vs. Toilets?
Did you know? On our planet of 7 billion people, there are about 3 billion toilets compared to 6 billion active cellular phones. At the largest refugee camp in the world, 19-square-mile Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, the intake center had long lines of exhausted, barefoot people waiting for food. After trudging for days […]
Those pesky 4 letter words!
Those pesky four letter words! Much attention in our society is often focused on those four letter words that rebellious teens/adults use that rile up folks. Remember that old childhood refrain… “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”? Particularly during middle and high school, I tried to believe […]
What is it with socks?!
What is it with socks…? It’s one of those little frustrations in life. Where do those socks go? How is it we can have lots of socks, but not matching ones? Does the washer eat them? Is a sock monster to blame? Is it a test from the universe? Why do I keep saving sock singles, […]
To resolve or not to resolve, that is the question…
To paraphrase Shakespeare, “To resolve or not to resolve, that is the question.” It’s the New Year, and many of us face this recurring ritual with less than enthusiasm! “Firmness of resolve” has a tough time again the” stubbornness of the unresolved.” So if goals make you miserable, eliminate the misery! No one “has […]
“Tis the season…
Much has been made of the human perspective on Jesus’ birth story. A baby, born to a poor couple in a small country occupied by a foreign army, grows up to heal the sick, spread a message of love and faith, and become one of the most revered and influential men in history. This […]