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HANDBOOK 2010

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2009 .
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change..
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come..
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Monsanto, the epitome of an evil corporation...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100112/cm_huffpost/420365

Sorry I don't know how to link from here, but it is very important that we all educate ourselves on the agenda of Monsanto, a multi-national, multi million dollar company. Our health as well as the generations to come, depend on it. I truly hope that you will take the time to read this article.

Frequency Pt 2 - "How to Discern a Frequency"

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Oprah's Health Wizard, Dr. Oz Tells You To Take The H1N1 Vaccine - But His Kids Aint Even Taking It

Listen carefully here. This man obviously has a vested interest in promoting this vaccine.

new years's musings

Today I went and bought myself a plant. A nice trailing plant, which I put in my bathroom on the edge of the tub. A humble little guy, who despite it's meager origins, has cheered me immensely on this cold, dark winter day. Maybe this sounds neurotic, but I have gone into the bathroom several times, under various pretenses, just to check on my plant. A living plant inside, while everything outside sleeps.

This quiet time has been restorative, yet I am now finding myself in a strange duality of fully enjoying the season and also looking forward to the coming of Spring. I am, and will always be, a warm weather girl.

I have been spending alot of time in the kitchen, trying new recipes, pouring through cookbooks, going through websites like allrecipes.com. One cookbook which we have particularly enjoyed the results of is Food and Wine's Italian Cookbook. It is not a vegetarian cookbook, although it does include several non meat dishes. It is a very health conscience book, however, which I appreciate. Several recipes can be modified to vegetarian very easily. The meat eaters in my family equally loved the dishes with and without meat... something of a rarity in this house to please everyone. I will post some of my experiments in the next few days.

Besides cooking I have spent alot of time at home with my family, going to movies with my husband, reading, and at the gym- running, doing weight training, and tons of yoga. I finally got window treatments put up, and am still loving the effect. So cozy!



I feel myself readying for the oncoming semester (14 hours) and more time up at the salon. I am beginning to feel that familiar old anticipation coming over me, and I know in a few weeks I will be guns ablazin'! But, in the meantime, this quiet time has been lovely and necessary, and I try to embrace every second of it.

Greg booked our 2010 family vacation a few days ago. It's in June. We are going on another cruise. This one is 5 days and will be in the Caribbean. Everyone is all excited about getting in shape and being in a bathing suit, but I am in shape now but will probably be pregnant then, lol!! Talk about irony!

I took this picture of a corner of my house yesterday when the light seemed just right. It is some of my pottery, some of a friend's, and a still life I did a few years ago while on a sunflower kick that lasted far too long: