“That’s why it’s so good to know how to read music!” the grumpy conductor of the ukulele circle barked, “If we’re going to be using these books, we should do the music as it is in the book!”
The dozen or so septuagenarian ukulele players smiled nervously and looked at one another sheepishly, feeling quite scolded. They held their ukuleles and prepared to do the song for a 3rd time.
You hear people say this all the time: “I have a right to be upset because of the way I’ve been treated. I have a right to be angry, hurt, depressed, sad, and resentful.” Learning to avoid this kind of thinking is one of my secrets for living a life of inner peace, success, and happiness. Anytime you’re filled with resentment, you’re turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
Love flows. Love flows like a great unending river, and even if you cannot feel it at all times, so is it there, endlessly flowing, endlessly supporting you, holding you aloft.
Do you really believe that you can carry the world on your shoulders? Yes, it is true that you are responsible for everyone and everything, but, beloveds, think a minute.
When MySpace (a textbook case in how to murder the Golden Goose) decided to improve their site by getting rid of Blog Statistics, and making it virtually impossible to access Blogs older than the most recent 100, I decided to always put in a link to the Previous Blog, and also do some Digest Blogs […]
Day 9 – Friday – September 24, 2010 Weather: Cloudy, Breezy & Chilly Destination: Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia Odometer Reading: 97866 Total Distance Traveled: 2523 kilometers (1567 miles) Price of Fuel: Tailem Bend – $1.29.9 liter, 58.52 liters, $76.02 Route Taken: Kingston SE to Meningie to Tailem Bend to Mt. Barker to Adelaide to […]
I went out Tuesday evening…miserable and full of apprehension…I came home feeling much better than when I left…Music heals, I forgot…even though it was (more or less) Music that brought me down in the first place…the last “sit-in” was the best…I think I’m back on track…and THAT feels good…will try to be optimistic about Wednesday–after […]
after all the talk of forming a trio with ME, two of my so-called friends have formed a group with some other folks…two of the other members of this new group include a really bad harmonica player, and a “singer”-percussionist who can’t carry a tune in a tractor-trailer truck…and I’ve gotten next to no response […]
Think of the people you know who give love in response to negative energy that’s directed their way. There aren’t many people who respond lovingly in that situation. The ones who do are able to because they have love to give away.
As we go through life things happen to us to get us off course. Things that make us wonder about the true benevolence, kindness and love of life and the universe.
