Holy. Smokes...!! Well... Hello There, Caitlyn Jenner... Welcome To The Party.

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caitlyn-jenner-1-640x430 Vroom vroom.

When you're happy. TRULY happy... You want EVERYONE ELSE to be happy too. Whatever that means to them.

Brava, Caitlyn. Well done, you. You're beautiful in ssooo many ways.

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we can ALL be baby unicorns

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This is fricking wonderful. I've been reading and studying and paying attention to this very subject for a long, long time. And while I struggle with it myself - some days are better than others - I try to encourage my patients and their families to do the very same thing, "pay attention to what you have, not what you don't have..." But, Shawn Achor is hysterical and astonishing, really. And SPOT. ON.

Brilliant Harvard Psychologist Explains How To Achieve Long-Term Happiness In This Popular TED Talk

* Special thanks to my wifey, Claud for this fantastic contribution. Thank you, Darling!

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It's TUESDAY (just think what lies beyond our doorstep...!)

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"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist - more fully explained by the artist.

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." ~ George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I forget that...

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It's Monday...

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With Me

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Afraid to lose control And caught up in this world I've wasted time, I've wasted breath I think I've thought myself to death

I was born without this fear Now only this seems clear I need to move, I need to fight I need to lose myself tonight

Yep. That pretty much covers it.

damn it.

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The Golden Moment (it's all we have...)

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A Golden Moment by Md Rafayat Haque Khan "The past is but the beginning of a beginning." ~ H.G. Wells

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*** A National Geographic Photo - "A Golden Moment" by Md Rafayat Haque Khan (source)

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what we think about expands and wears pathways in our hearts and minds

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So, why not let weeds choke the well-worn trails of guilt and regret... of envy and greed... of fear and need. Liberation lies in love.

Interconnectedness

"Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes." ~ The Upanishads

I'm trying anyway... And when I falter (which is often), I remind myself, progress, not perfection. And with "exercise", it DOES get easier...

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Just Hang On...

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The sun has left and forgotten me It's dark, I cannot see Why does this rain pour down I'm gonna drown In a sea Of deep confusion

Somebody told me, I don't know who Whenever you are sad and blue And you're feelin' all alone and left behind Just take a look inside and you will find

You gotta hold on, hold on through the night Hang on, things will be all right Even when it's dark And not a bit of sparkling Sing-song sunshine from above Spreading rays of sunny love

Just hang on, hang on to the vine Stay on, soon you'll be divine If you start to cry, look up to the sky Something's coming up ahead To turn your tears to dew instead

And so I hold on to his advice When change is hard and not so nice You listen to your heart the whole night through Your sunny someday will come one day soon to you...

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