mid afternoon...late day

Have you ever been in a funk?

You know, one of those blue type funks, where even the things you know you love don't appeal to you. The reason for the lack of appeal is unknown. The taste of food is not quite what it should be, the people you enjoy appear to be strange to you, even the moments of silence and rest don't do for you what they should.

Get out of the funk! Grab an apple, eat a banana.
Make the decision to be happy.

Just decide.

...@8am

I'm late today.

Fatigue is settling in.

When I was a kid, my father always told me,
"The thing we must always remember is, there is more than one way to skin a cat..."

This coupled with The Electrifying Mojo's,
"whenever you feel like you're nearing the end of your rope, don't slide off, tie a knot, keep hanging, keep remembering...," (then quickly moving into the Time's) "Ain't nobody bad like me...." has always put me in a place to persevere.

Sounds a bit funny, maybe even contrived, but sincere nonetheless. Life can throw rocks at you, we just have to know that a wooden bat is inadequate to bat against rocks. Don't complain about the rocks, just prepare yourself with a face mask, body armor, and a reinforced steel bat.

Cheers..

it is impossible to count your blessings...just be thankful!

Everyday we are all blessed with little things that we take for granted.

Should we stop to try to count them, and really be honest with ourselves on the gifts we are granted, there would be insufficient time to enumerate them all.

We instead should just be thankful, and in all ways thank God for our blessings, (which I am calling gifts, and often gifts of grace) as oft times, we are given gifts that we are completely unaware of.

Take time to give thanks, every day.

Smiles

...time keeps on ticking into the future...

We must consider whether what we have to sell is our time, our talent, or our productivity.

It is critical in our post industrial age, now an information-social media-technology age that we do not opt to sell the latter at the rate of the first. When we do, we not only sell ourselves short, but we create a relationship of reverse oppression. Where the oppressed are induced to bind themselves in favor of some other entity's benefit while jettisoning any hopes for their own health and well being.

If however, we recognize that our talent and our productivity is worth more than just an hourly wage, we can then expect to see our way clear to true Freedom. Freedom from parameters set by the industrial tycoons building everything and everyone just the same. Freedom to truly be independent, and freedom to build a new.