Submitted by Jennifer Paton Brautigan OK… you might want to get a tissue ready. I had a rainy day to day at work; I said I will make it up on sat. No big deal, my phone rings at 9:30 this morning from a friend wanting to know if I would help them paint for cash. I say I am in about 4:00. I said I am going to get food be back in a bit, I go through a fast food place, get my food, park and start eating. I saw a lady, rugged clothes, hairs a mess; she
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I am not the woman I was 6 years ago, nor am I the woman I was 6 months ago. Things have changed at such a fast pace, I am still actually absorbing and settling into my current place and position in life. Is this exactly where I knew I would be back then? No, but it IS pretty darn close to what I had set out to do and be. Correction this IS where I had set out to be without a doubt. Goal setting is a great tool. It’s there to use to lay out the steps in
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3 Tips on How To Love Yourself First Author: Tinafaye To truly learn how to love yourself, you have to be completely aware of your strengths, weaknesses, faults, habits and truths. It takes being able to accept such things about yourself no matter how good, bad or indifferent they may seem to other people. In no way shape or form should you transcend this message into a form of arrogance and intrinsic selfishness. What is being implied is the importance of how to practice having an inherent loving relationship with yourself. There is no possibility of accomplishing this toward others if you cannot
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The “in” Between ~ By Samuel Frauenstein What happens when you run outta road? What happens when you look down to change gears and there just ain’t any left? Questions like these take me back to a time when I was a kid. My old man took me for a drive to talk about life and what it means to become a man. He pulled the car into a cemetery, turned off the ignition and we just sat there for a while. Not saying a single word. I didn’t know what to expect, then he said:”We are all the same.
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I have this jar at home that I use to keep spare change in. The silver and bronze crap that’s always rattling in my pocket. I’ve been doing that for years man. A couple of cents here and there. On it’s own you can’t do anything with it. So I started saving it up. After a year I still didn’t have anything worth writing home about. So I stopped collecting. I mean, what’s the point, it’s not like it’s gonna amount to anything. It’s just too little, the denominations just aren’t big enough. Humans are creatures of habit… Creatures, hmmm,
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