August 29, 2004
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THINGS THAT REFRESH MY SOUL
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It’s a gray morning in Portland, Oregon though sun is predicted later and if it’s like yesterday it’s going to be a corker of a day. One more week and I’ll be at the end of this series of Sunday meditations. The whole idea was to express gratitude for various aspects of life. It’s a time-honored way of tackling the blues, that old negative thinking we all fall into on lots of days. All in all, life has seemed to me to be a series of choices – go left, go right; sign up, turn down; hold back, leap in; leave, stay; and they all boil down to Yes or No. Learning what to say yes to, what is healthy, what is going to nurture your most sensitive, most inner self is quite a task. They don’t teach it in school, you have to learn it by living in the world. Those who seem to be most at peace say yes with careful consideration, with conviction, and with courage. At the end of my life I hope I can look back and know that often enough (like Molly Bloom) “yes I said yes I will Yes!
Deep Thought: I’d like to see a James Bond movie where James Bond gets behind financially and maybe has to take out a bill consolidation loan, because even when he’s applying for the loan he’s still real smart-alecky.
Today I am grateful for: Seasons
Guess the movie:“Sleep tight.” “Affirmative.” Answer: Aliens 1986
End of Day: 8:25 pm
+ = Reasonably productive day, gorgeous weather.
- = All the fruit on my apple and pear trees goes to waste because I can’t and won’t spray them so the fruit is no good.
Comments (9)
I want to see the James Bond where his secret wife bitch slaps him for being the lovable caveman his is…
I want to see the James Bond movie where he starts out in the STD clinic being cured from his last movie…
but I like your Sunday meditations. And I like the idea of saying yes to the good things that are available.
I couldn’t place who Molly Bloom was so I googled and found she’s from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Thanks for mentinoning her. Iit gave me the opportunity to read this lovely passage.
“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. “
Ah!! James Bond…a man’s man, huh? LOL. It took me YEARS to learn how to say no. I’m re-learning how to say YES to life. It’s been a very long, strange trip. Really enjoyed this blog.
Thank you for reminding us all of the need to say yes more often!
Yes!
Good meditation for the day. That would make a good James Bond movie. Guess the movie – Lost in Space??
Good try. It is a science fiction movie.
Right now a flame is now turning into an ember because of clinical depression (he’s on a pretty good dose of Wellbutrin) and I think I will send him a gratitiude list.