Being Present

How can you expect to get what you want if you are not physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually present to receive them. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 23 December) 14 January 2013

Freedoms

In future days, which we seek to make more secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms.

• The first is the freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
• The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
• The third is freedom from want.
• The fourth is freedom from fear.

(Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945, in Pocket Positives - For Our Times)

It's the start of 2013, how do you think we are doing?
Mr. Dickie
5 January 2013

"Want" and a "Need"

Do you understand the difference between a "want" and a "need?" Do you really "need" what you "want?" Do you really "want" what you "need?" (Mr. Dickie, 19 Jan 2010)

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I skipped blog posting yesterday while we dealt with about five inches of snow on the driveway and sidewalk. The snow continued to fall afterwards. This morning I went out to remove another inch. Melva didn't have any trouble getting out to the street and the street was clean down to the pavement. When she arrived at work it was difficult to walk from the car to the shop. As always after a snowy day we hope that it will be worth the effort of getting to work.

As of tomorrow we will have used one twelfth of the time we have to accomplish our 2010 goals. Isn't that a sobering thought?

Mr. Dickie
31/Jan/2010 10:51