Memories with a Smile

Giving unneeded goods on Freecycle.org is more fun than I knew.  We had a dorm size refrigerator that the adult children no longer needed.  We have had it in storage for years so I listed it on freecycle.org.  A response came and we met the sweet family. 

A younger couple brought their son along for the pick up of the frig. An adorable handsome and polite son who loved baseball as his Dad.  The years we spent at baseball fields for practice, games, and tournaments came flooding back into my mind. 18 years we did this with three players in three teams, traveling nationwide, washing uniforms every night for the game tomorrow, a lot of, a lot work. So glad when I decided after 12 years, not to go to every national game away from home, Dad and son had a blast without me, without the mom around... and yes the uniforms got washed every night and yes they ate three times a day and yes Dad brought everyone home safe and sound again ready to travel again next week.

***Yes, Dads are as capable as Mothers to take care of children and when they are trusted to do so, do quite swimmingly. I love men, always have, and I love families together, making the children's dreams come alive, the journey is as exciting as the destination.

Memories, the best days of raising little ones, helping them become civilized adults, is a gift.  Thankful to have had this experience, thankful to have had a father to help, it made a huge difference for the children. Happy for this family, their children will have good memories of their parents.

Smile. 😃

Chosen People? We All Are Chosen

How do I know? We are alive now, breathing air altogether on this earth now. Any group that believes they are special because they are were "born in it," or "joined it by a special calling," and now consider themselves to be saviors of the planet and the people on it...you can climb down from you pedestal, we got this. All of us, got this, no one needs to save anybody, in fact no one can.  No one is responsible for saving the world, we all have that assignment by being here. Being present to relax, take it easy your opinion is not the only one that can can make positive changes. 

Go within, find something good in everyone you disagree with, it's a beginning to unite.  Drawing a line in the sand has not worked so far.

Yes we must endeavor to keep the planet clean and safe and that responsibility belongs to us all, no one person can force everyone to do this. Together we got this. 😎

Thankful to know it is not any one person's job to be Superman or Superwoman, if any of us died today, the world would go on and it would evolve as it will. 

Be the example, live the example of kindness peacefully as we patiently get our work done.

All is well. We are all chosen people here on earth.

Royal Citizens of The WORLD

When you finally get that there is a yin and yang to everything you understand we are one.
On this concept alone, if anyone declares him/her self royal then we all are royal or we all are not.
Since the world of known is what most focus as true then choose to see yourself as royal too.
This does not mean you have the duties or the things of, but it does mean you have as much right to live and be as any royal here.  However hopefully we choose to act more honest, faithful, and kind than those of earth who claim to be royal people, the character is many times less than sterling. Oh yeah, they are human like the rest of us.

Funny I had this concept as a child before I knew that any royals existed in the world. A sense of knowing everyone has value and everyone is respected regardless of economic or social status and therein has been my major disappointment in dealing with the world as I grew up, others did not know this and treated each accordingly.

Some even treated themselves badly because they did not know this.  As a child I was steered out of this belief and told I was less than royal, by religion, culture, and relatives.  I began to treat myself badly, and a result I treated others badly but then I grew up and away from home and I discovered the child in me again. As an adult I am free to think for myself and know now, what I knew when I was very young, we all are royal. Either we are one or we are not, truth is: "We are one." 

When I see people behaving badly from children to prominent people of the media, I know they are not aware of their place in society.  When we know we are one, we are kind to one another, even if we receive bad treatment from another, someone that does not know their value, we that know our royal position, know the other is unaware, weak in mind, and we think before we respond to him or her, and in that moment of thought, we can remember "We are Royal" and remain kind and civil. 

Evolution of the human mind world wide is coming along nicely. How do I know? Because I am waking up to my own unconscious behavior every day and finding more and more peace within and extending this peace outward. In my own awareness of being one with the world.  If I'm opening then the world is opening, I am not different from anyone, not even a royal. Neither are you.

Thankful to know we all are "Royal Citizens of the World."

Accepting What Is

For me is an everyday endeavor. It is so easy to get off track when I listen to others' concerns.  Time and again I remind myself to stay centered in accepting what is.  Things I can control and things I cannot. The past and future are out of our control, this is true.

Sometimes I am so thankful I am living my life and not another person's life. And then I remember oh yeah, I trained myself to be present in whatever MY life brings and that is why another's life can be exhausting to think about, it is not MY life. If another's life is exhausting to me it is because I have not meditated and prepared my mind to accept and live that life. 

Simple, kind, honest, trusting life with my Sweetheart for many years now, it is enough.

Peaceful Actions and Kind Words Much more Beneficial in Any Protest

Look at history, only dictators promote violence and destruction when the people they govern do not give a dictator what she/he wants, inflated egos that think their one way is the only way.  Every day people born in this country learn early on in life that to have a peaceful community of people we must help one another, we must compromise, we don't push our cultural, religious or political beliefs on others, and if we do there are laws to protect our freedom to live here with peace. Much of the disagreements here now are in the details, government is trying to enforce the agenda of a few on everyone. If there is a person who wants to govern and advocates harassment and harm to others, the saner people distance themselves from this person for the community's well being. In America we vote them out, we don't wish violence, harm, or death to anyone.  Who raised these people? Watch actions of anyone, their actions will speak loudly who they are and what they believe. 

In these disagreeable times here in America we are seeing the true colors of many that do not get their way, we see what is happening and "royal American citizens" are voting these people out of office and not buying tickets to the show.  We must protect American Citizens that make the country a place of peace and we that pay taxes to keep this government alive. This government is wasting our tax dollars on their personal luxurious lifestyles and personal agendas, making laws that benefit them not us.

The only place to begin to have peace is to quiet the anger in me.  Inner peace for each person on earth is the easiest way to world peace. Conscious awareness of the insanity of the mind then needs to be practiced daily to maintain this inner peace, outer circumstances must not affect the inner peace of the mind. A peaceful mind is an orderly mind, one that follows laws of positive thinking and kind resolution for all.  The planet is becoming more peaceful, people are uniting, it is exciting to live in these days.

Fear, materialism, identifying with what you own, your position in life, your degrees, will prevent any of us from looking deep within to achieve this inner peace. Peaceful minds have the best ideas to unite humankind. Doing anything with peaceful emotions and kind words these are much more powerful than anger.

Thankful to finally begin to understand this in my life, my life is the only one I can affect.

Today Is Your Day

Today is your day, every day is your day, you can make it so, you can find a rainbow in any situation, you can wait for a better day and in the meantime be present, be thankful, you just might find something really wonderful if you look close enough.  There is one you, there has never been one of you before and there will never be one of you again, what do you, unique and wonderful you have to leave the world? Only you know, only you can find this, but only you can look close enough inside to see the great gift you have to share with the world. Here's a big clue, whatever it is, it comes with peace and leaves with love.

Thankful to know as unique as each of us are, we are connected, we are one.

Stay the Course, All Will Be Well

Of your moral high ground on a personal level.  Name calling, threatening harm to someone we don't agree with or understand, wishing the other ill will, is the behavior of a BULLY.  We all agree we don't want bullying in the schools or on the playgrounds, but as adults we are being examples of the same bullying today on a social media and TV level.

Stay the course, America is an experiment in government, has been since the founding of it, the constitution is a result of much study of things that worked in other countries and things that did not.  The Constitution was created to benefit every citizen, not the governing politicians of the time.  There is much order, respect and peace here, let's keep it that way. We each can do our part on a personal level, hot headedness and anger never united any situation or nation.

The personal characteristics of our presidents past and present are not up to par, never have been, but I believe each has a good heart no matter what anyone says about any of them. Flawed? Yes, but not dark in purpose, all of them really believe each is making America safe and better, this much I believe about each of them. 

Calm, slow to anger, brings answers over peaceful minds.  Thankful in my old age to see this and stop stressing out over everything in this crazy world. All will be well, none of us are alone in any endeavor, our ego justs likes to tell us that, this keeps us separate.