Special Opp's

Closing out a month and gearing up for another one includes the anticipation of new challenges and opportunities to be part of great and small, easy and hard things that life tosses at us. Are we ready for every thing that presents itself in subtle or direct ways? Ways that leave you bewildered and in ways that are enriching and make you grow in the direction of a mature, evolving citizen of the world. Creating excellence in quiet yet important gestures of respect to replenish what we might take for granted by simply being good, fair and just.

All the best to you and me in our efforts and attempt at giving back and being good while contributing in whatever manner and learning how to be better everyday as we make life more livable and lovable. ✨

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Happy Birthday! 🍼

✨Happy Birthday to You, Mark Allen Joseph!  

What a life a wonderful life it was. You remain locked and loaded in places where God's amazing grace dwells. The peace you know now is beyond complete understanding and a constant endeavor for us here. To have lived such a good life and accomplish things in a way that leaves others missing you, wanting more of you, your good humor and loyalty to family and friends, the resolve to contribute to the quality of life for those you care about is remembered respectfully and with love. The great moments bursting with laughter, sarcasm, razor sharp wit, the special and seemingly mundane days and nights come to mind often. As the years pass, know that I hear you and see you in the places where you played, worked, enjoyed and lived your best life. 👑

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Let's Go!

Another month on it's way out as a fresh batch of new nights and days await. Let's go! Whatcha got, September? Each 24 hour span of time holds surprises and the predictable. Predictability has it's merits per structure in daily life. When to come and go, stay, leave, retreat, rev-up your engine in anticipation of things to come ushers in another round of possibilities. Bring it on, the blessings, the beautiful big hearted ones with tender hearts and tough resolve to make life more livable and lovable, let's go!

Let's go for the gusto, the goodness, the wonder and wildly mysterious way's and means of life. The ups, down, in's and out's that make you think and question and be thankful for the comfortable, the cozy warmth, cool things, love, the care of others that can easily be overlooked and taken for granted. To stop and consider what freedom, peace, joy is ours is to be aware of things in life that is out of reach for countless people who pray for such priceless things. 

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Bring It On!

Bring on a new month. Bring on new surprises, opportunities, ways of learning and being a better person from the inside out. Bring on new ways to live a good life, to be a blessing and be blessed.

Equipped with the ability to make life more livable, lovable and laughable... why wouldn't you? So, yeah, do bring it all on, the love, the respect, the new start of an old goal or project, the fresh way of evolving into the best person you know you want to be and can be. why not? Bring it on!

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FREE

To be Free is to be unencumbered. To have the freedom to be who you are without the judgement or disrespect of others is quite a wonderful thing. To be able to move about, to think for yourself and live a life that is without oppression or constraint is a privilege not bestowed on everyone. To practice your personal practices without interference from anyone is rich and something many people only dream of. 

To come and go here and there, do what you please anytime, anyplace with or without anyone are gifts that not everyone is allowed.  Countless variables like opportunities or lack of, upbringing, choices and fate. The air and light where freedom reigns or is absent varies and is seen and felt immediately. It can weigh heavy or be easy and easy to take for granted to remember it is not a given to everyone, everywhere. 

To live freely is to be blessed beyond measure, to appreciate freedom is to acknowledge something precious that tens of thousands of people have died to gain or protect and something many people might not ever be granted.

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Thankfully

Another month another several days and weeks full of surprises and the predictable, the things we look forward to or dread. Another series of days and weeks that spill over to the next as each experience, event, activity, moment follows the next and the next in a mostly orderly manner. It's those moments that seem chaotic, out of control or overwhelming when one does well to simply stop, catch your breath, breathe, walk, talk or not, cry, pray, reflect on matters that are not so hard to get a hold of and reconcile, find peace in life's madness and sadness. 

Thankfully, as we remember to count blessings that make our travel mug run over. To be led by appreciation is to be blessed with the capacity to pull ourselves up and out of any darkness that pulls us down, enough for us to feel defeated and depleted. Thankfully, we know how to seek and find the light, the peace, joy, comfort, consolation in the mysteries that cause doubt and despair. In the final analysis, the more gratitude one harbors the more calm the nervous system is. 🧐

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Certain Call

One or several things, thoughts, this and that to feel, see, take in and experience, like sunrise and sunset, a new moon growing into a big glowing thing occurs. The mixes, remixes and matches of people and places we can't imagine but we know are there, flash before our eyes.

The heart breaks and swells with warmth while the aches and pains stand in the wings awaiting their frequent curtain call. 

It helps to know yesterday is what was even as it still breathes a little life into today, hopefully in a refreshing way. 

We set our sights on new days and nights ahead, hopeful of goodness, peace, comfort, calm in the middle of the ugliness that dark forces would rather interrupt. It is in our favor to focus on the beauty, breath and depth of the wonders and miracles that surround us. 

Things that soothe our nervous system rather than aggravate and disturb us to the core.  

 

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Still Here

Still necessary, still absent and disregarded as important by too many who need it the most. Love, compassion, respect are more needed than ever and yet put off to the side. 

At the end of the day or night it is truly the love that will see us through the dark days and sleepless nights. The good thoughts of others, a prayer of words that will never be spoken out loud but felt and transmitted in amazing and effective ways enough to soothe a broken or weary heart. 

The love we offer and receive is still here, still free and essential to our survival and existence, as the air we breathe. 

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September

Come on in, I hope everything if not most things 

go well this coming month. 

I hope September presents the kind of challenges that render good outcomes and approached with practicality, patience and peace. Onward we go to seek and find what requires our presence, our own brand of goodness and love.

I hope you enjoy your stay and prove to be a nice month that includes learning and maintaining ways to move with appreciation for the comforts and conveniences I have.

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Summertime

Baseball, hotdogs and hot dogs, swimming, fishing, fireworks, road trips and long lingering nights are all part of the season. Time to squeeze in extra fun be it in the back yard, front porch or any green space or body of water that offers shade from the blazing sun and cool air from the thick heat. 

Summer days and nights seem easier to take as the season calls for shorts, t shirts, sandals and the ever present sneakers that workout nicely in any weather. There is a fun component to summer that harkens the days and weeks between last school year and the next. It is a reprieve from the grind of school bells, text books and people that forget their manners. Peer pressure of some sort looms as students try to stay on top of the latest trend but the summer is casual, laid back, mostly unhurried with no knuckle head classmates who like to cause havoc.

Summertime is a good time to start something new, accomplish things you thought you couldn't do last summer and meet new challenges that come with changing seasons and times that make great memories. Hope your summer is going well and you are staying cool and comfy.

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Behold

Behold the moon reflecting the sunlight all creamy dreamy, lunar caldo. Funny not funny how puny earth is, how the moon, mars, the sun, stars and such surround us suspended in the vastness, vulnerable af, yet acting so smarty pants, reckless, like the wild wild west of the cosmos. dang

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Peaceful Places

April flew by. The day's scurry on, the good, bad and ugly. The frightening, fantastic frenzy of life. It catches up with you until you reach critical mass and start looking for way's to be happy, get something out of life in the way of joy.  You wonder why things are the way they are, the uncertainties, the cruelty and unfairness in the world. 

There is light though through the mirky waters, the uncanny way people can come through for each other, lifting and separating, transforming the doubt and dismal to a peaceful place brought about through a gesture of simple kindness however fleeting. It becomes a long lasting moment that made a big impact. Forgiveness tolerance, patience are required of us what we sow is what we reap. The challenge among many is to cultivate a healthy perspective. 

Since we are at the epicenter of the world it behooves us to maintain a happy medium and enjoy life versus weighing ourselves down with dread, disdain and negativity. Simply stated, Peace, Love, Joy, it's what's for dinner! 

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Blessings

I hope for better day's and better ways to live peacefully, calmly and gratefully for every little and big thing that makes life good.

I hope ewe are well and at peace in the middle of anything that disturbs your peace and comfort. I hope and pray for all things good and true, real and gracious. 

I hope ewe have more good moments in the course of your day and night and you have much to be grateful for. I hope you have it in ewe to go to places in your heart and head that provide respite and a reprieve when you feel exhausted from trying to cultivate a healthy and positive outlook on life's craziness, cruelty and recklessness. I hope, while you count your blessings you know that you are a beautiful blessing and have it well within you to be a blessing. 🕊️

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Let's Go

Thank you for a good month. It seemed slow but swift. Learning how to do things is on-going as well as how and what not to do if we are up for the task of improving that which requires improvement. I appreciate another several weeks of life that I was granted, and I look forward to taking on the challenges of the upcoming month. Bring it on. Let's go! ♥

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HalfnHalf

One part yourself and one part of another person. Twins are interesting creatures, never quite alone, never quite complete without the other yet born to be your own person. It poses an interesting predicament as a twin who is part of the entity of twinship in tandem, plural. 

To learn how to get along in life with or without a twin is to go beyond comfort zones. To have the courage and confidence in your own ability to learn lessons gently and not so gently as your sidekick, partner in crime, wing man, may or may not be there on the ready if need be, scary stuff.

It is an interesting push pull type thing growing up when you miss your "wombmate" at times, all for having the twin around in one moment then you need your own space and some sort of autonomy. Perhaps neither need nor want anything to do with each other. The growing pains of growing apart yet holding on to the special nature of the twin connection is unique and something mostly understood by twins. The half you, half me, halfnhalf thing, remain. I will always feel like I am a twin even though you have transcended into your heavenly place. I know a big part of you, your big spirit and goodness is present. It is always powerful and precious when whispers from Heaven as soft, subtle and fun as a butterfly fluttering his wings, comes around.  

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Some Like It Hot

It's a hot one alright, scorchy. The temperatures in the summer season of 2024 are in the three- digit range regularly. The earth sweats, bleeds, cries, blows off steam, erupts into raging fires and fits of frustration as people trample on her. 

What if mankind combined forces for good and figured out a way first of all to get along then how best to use the vast resources that are available to us right now?  How much money, power, control does one person or country need. The greed, callous and carelessness of the powers that be are inhumane and heart wrenching. 

There is always hope though and faith in change. The shifts slowly conspire in our favor one kind gesture at a time as hearts and souls long for the awakening of possibilities of making our vulnerable, stubborn world a fair and just, peaceful and loving place. Anything is possible the probability is another thing. 🕊

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Until Next Time

I hope the month was nice to you. I hope your days were mostly good and you experienced life in a good light that included descent health, happiness and feelings of accomplishment about projects you took care of.

As one month closes out another one waits on deck poised and ready to dispense soft and hard scoops of challenges, thrills and chills, fun and fantastic things predictable as well as surprises. Things that leave us breathless, bewildered, blessed and Godsmack'd by the life, little things that make us melt, the good news and kindness of others withstanding. 

The way we learn from other people still after all these years, what to do and what not to do. Life lessons and things to learn never ends. There is always something to learn to grow from and be better for the wear and tear. Until next time, have yourself a good month. May your days include peace of mind and heart from a place of love to give and receive in kind. XO

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May

A busy month for many reasons as the seasons change people lives change in way's that are not quite realized until we look back at those experiences, where we were, who was around, who is not around now, what has changed or hasn't. We look at life as if we will live forever knowing full well that that is not the case.

So we let the seasons pass we look at our own lives and the lives of those whose final season has been lived out, or has it? We will find out, or will we? It is best to stay in a safe place during our time on earth to maintain a peace and gratitude for the goodness that is and was and will be. To fret over the past or the future is futile and takes a lot out of you.

Thank you May! May June be a good month with many things to make life more livable, lovable and laughable. 🌼🎯💚

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MAY

May the new month be good to you. 

May the mothers who love us, nurture and care for us remain in our core

in places of the heart and soul where only 

love and peace reside. 

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🕊 Gracious Goodness

Happy Easter!🌼 May Gracious Blessings be upon us. 

Prayers and good thoughts for good things, peace of mind, good health and happiness, soft landings and simple days filled with wonder and wisdom to grow into better people everyday. 🌻

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