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Baseball Card Book - Ed Lopat

Baseball Card Book - Ed Lopat
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Cool. Love the binding.

well...

well...
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Year 2010 Overview
The symbol for Libra is Balance. In the next year, you'll find yourself doing even more balancing than usual; you're going to be pressed to decide if your internal sense of happiness should be the focus of life more than the outward signs of success. This may have been weighing heavily on your mind for the last several months, as far as work and the state of your love life. What you are likely to be weighing this year is a little more intangible (and a little more important) than those things. Specifically, in 2010 you'll find yourself weighing out the cost of the connections you've formed for yourself versus their actual value to you.

There's going to be a lot of pressure on you from within and without as to who you really are at heart and who you really are to those closest to you. This will be both in your personal life and at work. The natural Libra impulse is often to make peace with these kind of pressures, or negotiate your way around them. Your best bet in the next year though will be to recognize your own inherent value -- not just what you appear to be worth to others.

In the final analysis this is all good news, even if it's good news in disguise. No one is better than you at beautifying things or finding the inherent beauty in the mundane. Once you realize that you yourself are at least as shiny and pretty as any accessory -- in your heart and soul, where beauty really counts -- you'll have begun assembling a better You. Breathe through the difficult spots, and enjoy the results!

We

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy,. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.  - Huston Smith

A Friendship Blessing

A Friendship Blessing

May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love,
warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship. and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
May they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth,
and light that you need for your journey.
May you never be isolated.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam cara.
— Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

I am currently reading this book.  Anam Cara is gaelic for Soul Friend.

don't waste it...

Kelli has this quote on her blog....so true. Sometimes I need to be reminded to follow my heart and not by the thoughts of others, real or imagined.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. {Steve Jobs}

maya angelou

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."  

 

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

 

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. "

 

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

 

night sounds

Dog barking Cars Airplane People walking by People talking Motorcycle Leaves blowing in the breeze Someone at the mailbox Car door closing Bird chirping

april to july walking

From April 1st to July 31st I have logged 11,158 minutes of activity, mostly walking.  So at a 20 minute per mile pace, that is 557.90 miles.  My longest one time walk was 11.5 miles.  I have done quite a few 8 mile walks and one 10.5 mile walk.

The journey has been amazing, to think I was worried about a 2.5 mile walk back in March is crazy to me now.  2.5 miles is just a warm up now.  I still take walk breaks at work, but usually I go on the elliptical instead, as the shorter walks just does not seem like enough.

Still the hardest part is finding hours at a time to walk the mileage that I need to be walking but it will just have to continue to be a priority for me.  This has been a great physical and mental commitment, one that I will not soon forget.

good & true

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge

of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but

the good & true things they would do someday.