Art of Life

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~ Stella Adler

Love Cures All

Hope is not the closing of our eyes
to difficulty, risk or failure.
It is trust that if we fail now,
We shall not fail forever.
And if we are hurt,
We shall be healed.
It is a trust that life is good
and love is powerful.

Author Unknown

But Very Much Appreciated!

Mary Oliver Poem

When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Covered Bridges in Vermont Collapsed in Hurricane Irene - SO SAD!

Hi Bonnie,

Yes, our session with Dr. Favorite went very well.

He's amazing.  Really interactive (unlike most therapists)

and skilled, a great listener, has goals, keeps us moving

but with compassion, intelligence and empathy.  I think

he's God's gift to us at our time of need, don't you?

I'd be happy to go see Ma more often in lieu of you coming, again.

You don't have to do that.  I can pitch in---more than--next week.

Take her to the doctor on Wed.  The whole shabang.  It's not

necessary that you come---unless YOU WANT TO.

Next Tuesday at 11 AM is the new season of THE VIEW.

Let's all be sure and watch that.  Hope Ma doesn't have an

appointment at that time!  Monday, there's no Camelot.

Nor Tuesday.  It starts up again on Wed.  Besides, Ma would

need a passport, remember?  It doesn't look like she'll be able to go,

and I know she wouldn't agree to riding 3 hours, anymore, in the car.

So, think about if you'll go with me just the two of us, sometime before it ends

Oct. 30th.  I know it's difficult for you to be in Michigan and not take Ma, but

she wouldn't go.  Too far.  She even told me she can't ride to Ann Arbor, anymore.

I've made some good inqueries into assistants for Ma.  I came right

home and got right on it.  Will let you know what I discover as I

turn up good leads.  But I spent about 2 hours on it today after our

session with Dr. Favorite.  He gets us going.  He's amazing.  I'm so

happy we went to that talk at the library and met him, and he took

us on----aren't you?  He's trying to work out he schedule to continue

including you on the calls.  Maybe start meeting on Fridays in the future.

Tonight, I'm distraught over the covered bridges in Vermont collapsing.

I've been reading about several of them and watchng You Tube Videos

of one totally coming down in the wake of Hurricane Irene.  Built in 1870.

Plus much damage has been done to 2 beloved covered bridges in Woodstock--

the Quechee Bridge and the Taftsville Bridge---both of which I know/knew well.

This is a travesty, as the trusses were built by hand in the 1800's and can NEVER

be replaced, again.  They can build them out of steel and modern technology,

but the glory and nostalgia of the origins of these bridges are now gone forever.

People aren't aware of what's happened in Vermont.  The travesty that's

just occurred.  I wasn't, either, until I started hearing about it and reading

up on it this evening.  Now, I'm devestated, too.

I wrote to Mary and another carriage-driver friend in W. Windsor, VT

and am awaiting replies.  I'm in shock--as are millions of folks in Vermont.

All for now.  Nighty-night.

Luv,

PEP 

Getting Started - Following Through

No matter how intelligent or able you may be, if you don’t have a sense of urgency, now is the time to start developing it. The world is full of very competent people who honestly intend to do things tomorrow, as soon as they can get around to it. Their accomplishments, however, seldom match those of the less talented who are blessed with a sense of the importance of getting started now.

Author Unknown

But Very Much Appreciated!

Dream Your Dreams

What's behind great accomplishments? Inevitably, great people. But what is in those 'great people' that makes them different? It's certainly not their age or sex or color or heritage or environment. No, it's got to be something inside their heads. They are the people who think differently... They are the people 'who will dream dreams and see visions.'

Charles Swindoll (Slightly Adapted)

American Pastor, Author and Educator

Live for the Moment

“Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.''
It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more.
It is a universal principle which you are part of.
You must release everything when you truly awaken.
Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough?
If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time.
When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.”

By: Wayne Dyer