Monday, 9 April 2007

Tests

No one goes through life untested
but the answer to these tests is positive energy.
And the ultimate rule for the road
is that our vision, positive energy and certainty must be
greater than anyone's negativity, fear and doubt.
- Jon Gordon

Friday, 6 April 2007

April 6, 2007 Chautauqua


From the Editor's Computer

Did you hear...a community in Manitoba wants to do away with the plastic grocery bag. San Francisco apparently already has a bylaw in effect regarding the usage of plastic grocery bags. The city is issuing cloth/canvas bags to residents for their shopping needs.

I find it interesting how we seem to “go back in time” every so many years or decades. The disposable plastic grocery bag was once a marvel and a wonder, freeing people from the need to carry around their own cloth bags. Now the plastic grocery bag is something to be shunned in favour of the environmentally friendly alternative - cloth bags.

The same thing happened with flooring not that long ago. For years and years people had wood floors. The really lucky ones may have had a throw rug or two for warmth. Then wall-to-wall carpet came in and everyone jumped on the bandwagon. Carpet was warmer, allowed for greater creative expression and made a home more welcoming. Then we heard that carpet had harmful chemicals, trapped diseases and allergens, and was one of the reasons for so much sickness. Next thing you know everyone is going for wood or laminate flooring. Yes, we’ve come full circle yet again.

Everyone of us has the opportunity and the responsibility for making wiser, healthier choices in our lives that have the best (or least) impact on the environment in which we live. What are you doing today to make the world a better place?

Beth

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Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Adventure

An adventure is only
an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only
an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

Monday, 2 April 2007

Silence

He who uses silence in lieu of speech really does speak.
– Lieh Tzu, Taoist sage

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Friday, 30 March 2007

Friends

Real friends are those who,
when you feel you've made a fool of yourself,
don't feel you've done a permanent job.
--Author Unknown

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Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Doubts

The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt.
– Bertrand Russell

Monday, 26 March 2007

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

Friday, 23 March 2007

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future.
When you have an idea of perfect in your mind,
you open the door to constantly comparing
what you have now with what you want.
That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.
- John Eliot, Ph.D.

Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Choice

Sometimes it’s difficult to realize
that you always have a choice in everything you do.
– Fred Alan Wolf

Monday, 19 March 2007

Belief

Belief consists in accepting
the affirmations of the soul;
unbelief, in denying them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, 16 March 2007

March 16, 2007 Chautauqua


FROM THE EDITOR'S COMPUTER

This year is the first year of the expanded Daylight Savings Time.

I don’t know about you, but I really truly cannot see the point of Daylight Savings Time. It is nothing more than an illusion that society has bought hook, line and sinker.

First, we are not saving time anywhere by changing the clocks. Nor are we adding an extra hour to the day...we still have the same 24 hour span, not 25 hours! When we go back to regular time in the fall we don’t go from 25 hours to 24...or from 24 to 23 hours.

As for it being lighter at night. I don’t buy that either. This may surprise some of you, but the truth is that the daylight hours are increasing naturally. There is no need to tamper with the clocks to achieve precisely the same effect that we’re told we get with Daylight Savings Time. As an energy saver it leaves a lot to be desired. I didn’t have to turn on lights before it came in...now I do until the daylight hours get longer.

I had someone tell me once that it is for the farmers. Saskatchewan farmers have proven decade after decade that it is still possible to farm without Daylight Savings Time. Besides, here’s a news flash...your crop really couldn’t care less what time your watch says. Plus, I’m sure the livestock are blissfully unaware of whether you think you have more time or not.

In my opinion we’d be better off just leaving the clocks alone and dumping Daylights Savings Time. Makes you wonder what other societal illusions we should be questioning.

Beth

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Wednesday, 14 March 2007

Forest and Trees

In the East, they contemplate the forest;
in the West, they count the trees.
– Wayne Dyer

Monday, 12 March 2007

Favorable Outcomes

Go forward confidently,
energetically attacking problems,
expecting favorable outcomes.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Friday, 9 March 2007

Wonder

The larger the island of knowledge,
the longer the shoreline of wonder.
--Ralph W. Sockman

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