Words to live by

The Immediacy Of Everything

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From minute to minute, day to day, and year to year, everything in the world is changing. What is alive is dying. What is new becomes older. What is already old will eventually disappear or change into a form alien to the original.

We react with a mix of shock and sadness as we become painfully aware that everyone and everything everywhere are no longer what they were, nor will they ever be again.

Everything on earth is slip-sliding its way down a seemingly endless one-way street to be replaced by the same or something different.

We become depressed as … Read the rest “The Immediacy Of Everything”

One Logical And Powerful Word

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Of all the wonders of life, few can top the stories every human being can tell about what has happened to them.

And so it was during a recent morning walk that I met a man who was putting the final touches on his new self-designed street-side mailbox. After I told him how good it looked, he introduced himself as John, and we drifted into the subject of our respective pasts that brought us both into the latter stages of a good life. That’s when he told me a story.

He was born, raised, and educated in Chicago. His first … Read the rest “One Logical And Powerful Word”

Be A Lover Of Life

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She was a follower on Twitter, but as so often happened, she was nobody I knew. So I did some checking and it revealed that her name was Andrea and that she was living on a farm in Alberta, Canada.

In a quick scan of her bio, my eyes locked on these words: “Making mediocrity fabulous one day at a time.” Those words weren’t the ordinary kind that merely talked. They yelled, almost screamed: “Look at us real close. We are expressing something profound, a great thought to live by, an even greater one to wake up to every morning.”… Read the rest “Be A Lover Of Life”