I would like to develop the needed skills to increase my income and get away from where I currently live. Not sure where to find support for that but I recently enrolled in an online course that might put me in touch with people who can somehow help. Time will tell.

I feel refreshed after reading a good book for a few days. It is like leaving town for a few weeks. I feel refreshed when I watch a movie while I knit for a couple of hours. Highly relaxing.

I don’t ‘feel’ anything right now. Impatience with the Universe. Opportunities are around me but I don’t feel I have the resources to accept them, meaning they cost money. I feel like perhaps my learning Irish, Dutch, Latin, and Hebrew might help me in the future somehow.

I don’t really have a song or movie that helps me. I listen sometimes to Abraham Hicks on Youtube for encouragement. I come here as often as I can remember. I participate in the work of Cynthia Jurs and her sangha on Mondays. Classical music really helps me connect with God. Rach 3 really helps.

I am not entirely sure. I think knowing I cannot simply drift along with the remainder of my life. Wanting to improve myself helps. Wanting to change my current circumstances even at this late stage of life (I am retired but need more income to change my circumstances). Knowing there is so much work to be done in this world. I am grateful for each day that I get to see sunshine and the clear sky. I am searching for something I know, but I don’t know what.

I like this question. The words would be Forgive and Love.

I still get in trouble with my mouth and words, but I learned long ago that speaking words of support instead of what I am really thinking, goes a long way toward building peace. I told someone once that communication is more about what we DON’T say than about what we DO say. Kindness always. Many many times I just don’t say anything.

I am slowly learning to think of the past as a teacher for how to move forward. By forgiving those I struggle with and by practicing kindness, I learn to move forward. We don’t have to like everyone, but kindness is still in vogue.

The story of my past. Every day is a new day in which to practice self forgiveness and develop positive thought patterns. I have limited myself in life by my old beliefs and am working on growing new beliefs that serve me better. My life is so full I often wonder how I can be expanding and having such a full life. One of the aspects of my life is a little behind my current reality.

I agree. I think self forgiveness is the most difficult part of life. But forgive ourselves we must if we are to move forward and take in beautiful new horizons.

This will be my last post for 3 weeks. The library whose computer I use will be closed for 3 weeks. What have I learned about myself this year? That I am long suffering (I already knew that). Someone told me recently that I am dedicated to that which I commit myself to. What I have learned as I practice gratefulness and come to see how negative my thought patterns are, is this. I must always bring myself back to loving kindness toward myself and others. But it does take work.

Gratefulness.org. Another place I get sustenance from is Dailyom which someone mentioned on this site. I also joined with Cynthia Jurs meditation group this year and have found that encouraging. I will respond gratefully. Actually a miracle took place this year. After many years of silence from a family member, reconciliation has taken place. Though I many never see this person again, at least we had several months of peaceful communication. Peace reigns. I am grateful for that.

One thing I am grateful for is this website and all the people here. My practice of daily gratefulness has really helped me be more positive in general in spite of everything. I am bothered that my new phone does not allow me to log in at home. Coming here to begin each day was a sacred act for me. But I still read the Word for the Day and everyone else’s entries. But I am profoundly grateful for this place.

That I am at this public computer doing this on this website. There is joy here for me. Learning to live in each moment is hard. I enjoy playing piano when I can. I enjoy being outside whenever I can.

An ocean beach, Cannon Beach, Oregon. A mountain top in winter on a ski lift. Nothing but quiet. On top of Mt. Rainier looking down on everything else. Or stepping inside the ‘world as it could be’ when meditating.

I am not sure. Perhaps to stop fearing government and those in government. I learned long ago that the common man does not matter, at all. What should I understand more of? That I cannot tell you. People perhaps. Myself for sure. To trust myself more.