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Around the age of 8 or 9 my parents and I lived in a small subdivision in Woodbridge Virgina called 'Twin Cedars".  The name was cleverly chosen from the two cedar trees greeting residents at the neighborhood's entrance.  Looking back, the trees looked nothing like twins at all and I'm not even sure they were Cedars (then again, the recollections of my 9th year are probably a little foggy).  A more appropriate name would have been "Quad Barrels Subdivision", since my most ... Read More

I've seen several versions of the following lists, but this one seemed to capture some of the best. I thought as we get in to the holidays, this would be a great reality check and provide a compass to point us in the direction of the real meaning of the season. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they gotwere broader and deeper than ... Read More

Someone named "Max" left me a comment about the "Snakes on a Plane" philosophy. The post is about a year old, but with the upcoming movie release staring Samuel L. Jackson, it’s still fresh! The basic gist of the philosophy is that the term "Snakes on a Plane"= Sh*t Happens". If you’re looking for a new philosophy for the upcoming Fall season check it out! Read More

I was first introduced to this poem when I watched the movie "Coach Carter". The character Timo Cruz (played by Rick Gonzalez) says it to Coach Carter (played by Samuel L. Jackson) when Timo is asked by Carter what he is afraid of. He then recites the following; a return to love - by marianne williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most ... Read More

Life can give us some very interesting acronyms. Below are just a few. When questioning the WHY and not getting the answer, aligne with your energy and do a gut check to make sure you are not in Denial. DENIAL = Dont Even Notice I Am Lying Optimist's definition's of FEAR. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real or FEAR = Forgetting Everything's Already Resolving A Realist's definition of FEAR. FEAR = F*@k Everything And Run When you are making decisions, "Halt" and make sure you are not making one when ... Read More

I was feeling very  powerless when I wrote this.   Kind of like when you are floating, but during that state of totally letting go, you discover a peace that you've longed for. GRAVITY The lightness of levity pulls No destination, except to resolve circumstance No intention, except to attend Full of purpose in its turbulent opulence Meandering through the bends, the hills, the valleys Denied free will, no control in its' direction Time is reason and proof Gravity is order Read More

The following is a reproduction of an article by Tim Adams dated October 26, 2003 in the Observer. The full article can be found HERE. What does each of us think of when we think of our body? Do we see it as our friend or our enemy? The home of our pleasure or the source of our pain? Do we want to indulge and pamper it or starve and dominate it? What makes us desire to paint it and pierce it, ... Read More

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER by Erma Bombeck (Written after she found but she was dying from cancer.) I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, ... Read More

Life Law #1: You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who gets it. Life Law #2: You create your own experience. Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life. Life Law #3: People do what works. Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others. Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. Get real with yourself about your life and everybody in it. Life Law #5: Life rewards action. Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger. Life ... Read More

There is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out ALL OF IT, of course!!!! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good ... Read More

Copied from an online article on Oprah's Website and attributed to Gary Zukav: There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has ... Read More

Below is a speech I wrote and presented in a Communications class in college at UNCW circa 1990. I got an "A"!!! The boundaries between art and obscenity are tough to distinguish. The role of the artists in society is hard to define. Even more difficult is deciding who, in a multicultural society has the right to set those boundaries. It is not an easy question, and doesn't have a easy answer. Plato and Aristotle argued over whether the ... Read More