This quote so beautifully sums up my motto for 2017. I really am determined to live this way. Its so easy to do this when you are unemployed which I currently am. It has got me thinking though about how we all actually live our lives. Busy is better and we rush through every second without even noticing what is happening. We never just sit still; we never just breathe; we never just BE. Over the last few days I am taking time to just sit. Not even in meditation. I'm just sitting and appreciating my life as it is right now. A lot of times when life has not gone the way I have wanted, I justify all the things I have done or make silent lists of why I am ok, and DO things like obsessively searching for jobs, doing chores, etc. This time around although I am not working life is exactly as it should be and I am content. This is a HUGE step for me. I'm waking up happy in the mornings. I laze around for a while sipping coffee, petting my cats. I do check my facebook and email and p...
The fabulously eccentric non conformist, poet Allen Ginsberg said, "“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” This blog is not to gain followers or to show off my writing skills, but instead to express my thoughts and feelings about the world through words. I believe words have the power to change and move people and through writing them, change oneself. This is what I am doing in this blog...changing myself one word at a time.