My $12.99 jeans, my thrift store gap sweat shirt and my $29 sneakers has got me styling. I walk around and people glance at me and go their own way, I see someone dressed up who may look my way and shake their head. I go around my world unnoticed and I like it. My clothes are meant to protect me, keep me warm, they are not who I am, not my identity. So I keep them in their proper place, I use them as a tool and am grateful for them. I try not to let their humbleness get to my head and make me judge those silly enough to spend much more on their image.
After witnessing a world where some people kill others over a pair of shoes and others destroy lives over a few million dollars, I have decided that material possessions and money are only things I will use as tools. What I want more than that is health and the discipline to live healthy life. Many people forget that without health none of these other things they desire would have any meaning. So I watch my weight, know my blood pressure and cholesterol numbers, exercise my mind, body and spirit on a regular basis. If you put a million bucks in box number one, fame in box number two and a healthy life in box number three and gave me a choice, I would point at box number three and say “Give me some of that!”.
Dogs are pet animals which are grown with home of every one in nowadays. Dogs are divided into several kinds. Some are short varieties and some are tall varieties. Some are Stout and some are slim. Some are homely with home people and some are terrific with home people. Some dogs may be tamed and some dogs are very sensitive to its nose and mouth. In order to grow a dog, you will have to maintain a health chart and a food chart for your dog. We must do regular health check ups with a veterinary doctor for every month. We also have to buy prescribed foods and dog supplements for dogs in the departmental stores. Everyone who is having dogs as pet animals must necessarily have to play with them to have healthy and mentally free dogs. In choosing a dog, everyone will do necessary selection in the purpose which they need to grow those dogs. Every dog will be taken with much care and be maintained with neat dress code and to maintain decency. It must be neatly hair dressed monthly once and the body dresses will match with its color.
I have learned to take the power of thought seriously. Not that I have been bending spoons or reading minds but I have been working with people who no longer have that power. When you witness someone who has earned their Phd and was an outstanding professor, but due to dementia, can no longer read, write or speak, you realize the gift you have to think. It reminds me of that old saying “you don’t know what you got until its gone”. I am grateful for the power to think and reason and hope that if the other old saying “use it or lose it” is also true, since I plan on using my brain for years to come.
Summer camp is one of my favorite childhood memories. Each July my parents would take me up to a local church camp in the mountains of Idaho. I remember the days being filled with activities like swimming in the lake, hiking, crafts and large group games. But sometimes the best times were the unplanned times. After dark we would regularly sneak out and “raid” another cabin, this may be simply attacking them with pillows dowsing them with water. This would entice them to do the same to us creating and ongoing, fun filled war. We always got caught by the benevolent camp director who would hold back his smile and assign us to KP, but somehow we made that fun as well!
Fun is one of those things that we all think of differently. Recently I had a great time doing something that others might call “boring”. I volunteered to deliver holiday meals, maybe that makes me a “bleeding heart” but it was a great time. I delivered food to the elderly and disabled in my local area, each person was gracious and thankful for the meal. Some told me that was all they had for that day, others just wanted to talk about the events of their life. With each meal I delivered not only food for the body but an antidote for the lonely feeling they had for the moment as well as hope for the future. It was better than a movie and much more fun.
My dinner last night was incredible! I went out and picked up some pre-cooked chicken, blue cheese crumbles and a bunch of vegetables including peppers, carrots, tomatoes and lettuce. I than spread the lettuce on a big plate, chopped up the vegetables and added them on top with the chicken and blue cheese. Then I sat down and ate this simple delight one slow bite at a time. You may be asking yourself, “What’s the big deal?” well the “big deal” is that I made it, I created it, I enjoyed it and it cost me very little. It was mine.
The current recession has shocked a lot of people but in a good way maybe it has brought a lot of us back to financial reality. My grandpa used to say “only trust what you know” and this recession has taught many of us that we do not know how stable our job is, the downfalls of too much credit and that those who we trusted (bankers and financial advisers) have let greed overwhelm them. Making what we do know even more valuable. For example I know that despite the fact my employer may let me go, I can trust my friends and family will keep me around. I know that despite my past misuse of credit, that living on a budget within my means is now a viable option. And I know that despite the greed on Wall Street with our money, that I can choose to be a generous person and not stoop to their level, a 5% safe CD works for me!
I’ve been thinking lately about all of these social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and so on. We didn’t have all of this stuff ten years ago, but now everyone seems to think that having them is absolutely necessary in today’s society, that they simply couldn’t get along without them at all. I don’t know where this idea came from. I don’t use them, I never have. I feel like it removes something, the personal element from human interaction. Resorts everything to words and text, images. There is no feeling, no human touch. It feels cold and impersonal to me, even if you know someone, just to vaguely “know” them and hear from them once a week or once a month. I don’t think I could ever have a friend like that. Either I know someone and trust them completely and consider them a friend or I don’t know them at all.
I have an adult Doberman who comes with me almost everywhere I go. About two years ago, my best friend was in a car accident with her dog in the car and her dog didn’t survive. This made me really think about my dog’s safety when he’s in the car so I got a seatbelt for him. It’s like a harness that clips into the car’s seat belt. It is comfortable and padded and I feel much better when he has it on. It was an adjustment at first because he’s used to lying down across the backseat or hanging his head out the window and the seatbelt makes him sit upright and he can’t reach the window. After some work, teaching him about the seat belt he is used to it now and hops right in the car, sits upright and waits for me to clip him in. I highly recommend this device for anyone who travels with their dog. The dog seat belts come in all sizes.
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