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The magic of music

I love music. I love listening to it, making it and dancing to it. My tastes run from one end of...

Expectation vs. Reality

I heard a saying once that went something like this: Blessed are those with no expectations for...

The actual goal.

Recently I was at a Toastmasters meeting. We have a new location as of January 10, 2011. We are now located at a church that has a gymnasium next to our room. Last Monday there were a lot of shoe squeaking sounds coming into the room. I got up to close the...

They take work

Relationships take work. Period. Unless you’re the type to cut and run at the first sign of trouble. So maybe I need to change that first sentence to “Long-term relations take work.” The challenging thing is that the type of work required changes depending on the type...

Happy New Year!

This year I have decided not to make any resolutions for the new year but to look at what I want to differently in my life from a monthly perspective. Planning for the whole year is too much for my ADD-like brain to focus on and execute. So, this year I’ve decided to...

Thanks for the reminder.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit anxious about things that feel out of my control. Now I know that literally there is nothing actually in my control except me. The more enlightened part of me knows that. It also knows that I am powerful beyond measure. But still I can...