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Status: Married
Location:
Idaho
United States
Hometown(s):
Born in MD, now live in ID
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I believe life should be lived as a soaring adventure!
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Delightfully Demented In Idaho

Friends who know me very well describe me as being "Delightfully Demented"  I've been called The Merry One or the GoofusAmongUs, and that's OK by me.    

Brendan Gill (1914 - 1997) once said, "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."  As far as I can tell he was right.  Yes, serious things do happen but that doesn't mean I need to live seriously,  simply live mindfully. 

Dennis Wholey (1939 - ) said,  "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." 

And Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) said, "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life.  I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

And John Lubbock (1834 - 1913) said,  "What we see depends mainly on what we look for."  I tend to look for the good in people and situations.

As Garrison Keillor (1942 - ) says, "Be well, do good work and keep in touch!"

Added: April 16, 2009
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Dark Places

Living in a dark place - or All's well that ends.

 
Over the years I've spent time in some very dark places. Those were times in my life when it seemed nothing was going as I had imagined. When my son died; while caring for Doug during his final years. While I was in those dark places, I couldn't seem to find my way. 
 
 

Out of the storm, a stillness passes that feels like the embodiment of death.  Forged on a fiery anvil of anguish, it takes form; my heart cries out for a champion…

 
 
Waking up one very misty morning the thought occurred to me that sometimes life is shrouded in mystery and I can't see a clear path through it. But when I remain quiet, at rest in the stillness of the mist, my creator’s voice will speak to my heart and it is then that the fog lifts and I am blessed with a glimmer of understanding of where to place my foot for the next step. Shakespeare said, "All's well that ends well..." Now I believe all's well that ends. It doesn't have to end well, just end, so I can move on with my life.  Anger, grief and sadness, like joy and happiness, are intense but transient feelings.   Contentment is the state of peacefulness that lives between those intense feelings.

 

Added: April 10, 2009
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