Kitchen conversation...

This is how it went, as the boys and I were setting the table and putting together some dinner.

Lee (10): "...and when he carved the truck he made head lights.."
Gramma: "You had head lice?"
Carrie (from the living room, panic in her voice): "WHO has head lice?"

Another one:

Max (5) isn't feeling well, has tossed his cookies twice already.
Max: "Can I have an apple?"
Mom: "No, you just threw up. An apple will make you sicker."
Max: "No it won't, I'm OK."
Mom: "If you hurl, you clean it up."
Max eats the apple. Max throws up.
Collin (12): "Hey. Apple turnover."

Typical family conversations. No lie. This gang has such a quick sense of humor, keeps us all laughing!

Mindful words

Travel light
Live light
Spread the light
Be the light

One of the best actions we can take, with courage, is to relax.

A relaxed mind is a creative mind.

If you want to learn, read.
If you want to understand, write.
If you want to master, teach.

Do not live by emotions; instead, live by intuition and consciousness.

The greatest tool you have is to listen.

Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy, too.

Don't sleep counting sheep. Count blessings, then sleep.

Be healthy: eat right, walk right, talk to yourself right.

Appreciate yourself, and honor your soul.

There are 3 values: feel good, be good, do good.

Nature is a given, a true friend and sustainer.

Sunrise, Sunset

As I watched the sun set this evening, I experienced a sort of slide show in my mind of spectacular sunsets I've filed away over the years. One of those "years pass before your eyes in an instant" sort of thing. I can remember consciously thinking, "I've got to put this one in my mind, for days when there isn't a sunset."
One thing I know about watching the sun set - or rise, for that matter. It is indescribable. It also can't be accurately translated with a camera lens, or even the passion of a painter.
You experience a sunset or sunrise.
You feel it.
It is a Soul moment.

You are a Soul

I just ran across this C.S. Lewis snippit, that links with a profound truth -

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." C. S. Lewis

Here's the quote I most often think of when it comes to body and spirit:

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey." Steven Covey

I think he may have tweaked that from:
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

No matter where it came from. It is truth.

Try try agin

Growing up, I can't count the number of times I heard my mom say, "CAN'T NEVER TRIED!" Especially when one of us kids was whining about doing something hard. I don't know where she picked it up, I guess I never asked. But I sometimes now hear myself saying, to a grandpunk or a group working on a project, "Can't never tried!" It even sounds like Mom's voice...

Notes to self

A place to share family wisdom and sayings, snippits from my reading , quotes, stories and poems - in short: the ramblings of my mind.