How Important is it Really?

What's a different approach that may help us all develop the proverbial roll off a duck's back approach to life?

Gratitude. Patience. Understanding. Flexibility. Awareness.

Today I went with a friend to see a movie called "How to Train Your Dragon". Not my usual kind of movie choice, but the reviews were good and this weekend happens to be the Coastal Dream Machines
event where noisy airplanes fly over my home and the coast is flooded with well meaning and enthusiastic folks who are looking for a fun time, all of which to many of us locals means go find something else to do if you don't want to hunker down. So off we went, and did I ever enjoy this movie; great animation, good message, fun, and I didn't think about anything else for 2 hours while I watched the movie. A short break from life. And entertaining too!

Most things aren't really all that important in the long run. The challenges of today will be forgotten soon enough as we move forward in life, focusing on something new. So when you find yourself in a bubble or a little bit of turmoil, find something else to focus on for awhile and see if your mood improves. I know mine does.

Dreams

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."    Henry David Thoreau

God is Awake

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;  and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Victor Hugo

Strength

"To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."      Helen Keller

When Life Gives You Lemons

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands".

Richard Bach

Your Daily Rumi

"Come, for today is for us a day of festival;

henceforward joy and pleasure are on the increase.

Clap hands, say "Today is all happiness";

from the beginning it was manifestly a fine day.

Who is there in the world like our Friend? 

Who has seen such a festival in a hundred cycles?

Earth and heaven are filed with sugar;

in every direction sugarcane has sprouted.

The roar of the pearl-scattering sea has arrived;

the world is full of waves, and the sea is invisible."

-Rumi

Love After Love

LOVE AFTER LOVE 
by Derek Walcott




The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other's welcome.


And say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart
To Itself, to the stranger who has loved you.


All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart,
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,


The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your image from the mirror,
Sit. Feast on your Life.