Denise's Thoughts

I am at the computer thinking about the weather. It is almost winter here on the east coast. Yet when I went riding around the other day I saw trees holding onto their leaves. Some were absolutely brillant they looked like a flame. Then it really hit me hard when I saw flowers blooming on bushes that should have long ago stopped blooming. Global warming as it is really hits each and everyone of us while the weather becomes more and more intense in so many ways.. There are water shortages in the south. Fires in the west. Storms flowing in the north. Here in the northeast we seeminly are having the best weather of all. Regardless this is the life that we have. I am not complaining. I do not know what else to say about this other than this. The beauty of life as we know it is changing every day.....every day we have to get closer to what we really want to do in life. Before there was the laws of man there were the laws of the universe. We live and then we die. Hopefully in between we en...

What is better on this earth than enjoying the sunset? So many pleasures we are given to enjoy and take in. Because it was just thanksgiving we had food to eat. Friends and family to enjoy. Weight to watch increase and laughter all around. After the laughter and the gathering we are back to the business of living. All around us right now are thoughts of economic failure, enviornmental problems, war, domestic problems and where are we going with all of this? The flow of life as we know it has not really changed. The way communication is distributed has changed but life as a whole has not changed. We breathe, we live, we die. There is nothing magical about that but that is what we do. The stuff we do in between is what counts. I once had a thought of ...what if the real meaning of life was to stay focused in on the now. The real now the time that just is right now even as you read this. Not the past which is every word that has passed but the immediate energy in which you are now.....the...

Wonder is a beautiful thing....what else do we have but wonder in this world. What else do we have but the dreams that make us get up in the morning....Without dreams our world becomes cold. It becomes flat. It turns into a pattern that we follow day in and day out. I am convinced that life as we know it has the potential to open and create for each and everyone of us a diagram of what our purpose is. Sometimes we do not follow the inner voice that drives us to do what is right. I am sitting at my computer right now doing what I do best. Discussing life with myself and put my thoughts out to others about what life may have to offer. I am not sure if my life is really at it fullest potential at the moment. I am sure that I am doing the best that I can. Have I spread my self too thin? Am I doing so many things that I am not doing for myself? These are the things I think about. I went to a beautiful website today and enjoyed the beauty of Lake Quinalt in Olympic National Park. I took a qu...

Ok so sometimes life is not so beautiful. Ok so sometimes you are bored and not sure what to do. Have you ever been in a place in your life that you knew instinctively that things had to change. Not that you wanted things in your life to be different but, you realized that if you did not change them they would be this way for a long time! Well what did you do to evoke change in your life...let me ask you this....are you afraid to make changes in your life? Are you worried that if you change your life something or someone you love would leave? I have heard of people who keep the status quo because they are afraid. Afraid of being a success, failure, alone, rich, poor, married, single, with children, without children, homeless, too much of a mortgage, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not young enough, not old enough, not creative enough....you get the picture. Well what is stopping you from receiving your dream of dreams...what is stopping you from being the very person you want your...

Life is short. You have heard that said over and over again.... What does that mean to you? To me it means not doing what I want to do and doing things that are required of me not what I want to do. Right now I am reworking my life and doing what I want to do everyday. I realize that the secret is how I allow myself to spend my time. How we spend our time is dictated by what we do. That is absolutely true. There are certain things we cannot avoid. Paying bills. Working so we can make money to pay the bills. Cleaning the house. Shopping etc...etc...etc... What we have control over are our thoughts. I am working on stopping wasting my time on thoughts that get me no where. They are the thoughts about "what might happen if." They are the thoughts about people,places, and situations that I have no control over. You would think that after surviving cancer I would spend each and every day in joyous celebration over having a second chance at life. That is how I spent many of my days...

The Greatest Gift of All....is the love you can give to yourself. I was thinking back on my life and how free spirited I was as a teenager. Of course you do not have all the responsibilities that a parent has to raise children...that is if you have children...then you may have a house with a mortgage or at least rent to pay. So what happens to the joy of living after a while? Do you become bogged down with the day to day issues of house cleaning, bills to pay, yards to keep up, garbage to take out, people at work to deal with, health, family, friends, relationships, and it goes on and on. What do you stop to do to appreciate even one second of your life? Do you do anything at all for yourself? Every day on the news there is something that comes at you to make you stop and think about what is going to happen to your world. Are you depending on the voices of others to tell you what is happening in the world or are you using your own gifts of observataion to clue in to what is happening t...

Everyone knows that weekend has the feeling of being off and doing whatever you want to do. It is the reason so many people work and glorify the days off....it is a thought that most people carry with them thru out their lives...but there are those who work weekends, holidays, nights etc and around the clock. This is a short blog to just remember those who work all the time. Paramedics, doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters and others who are there to serve you all the time...this is just a short note to remind you that the next time you are out to dinner on the weekend...who is working to serve you. When you are on the road and stop for a cup of coffee who is there in the store. ...when you are going food shopping who is there to serve you....lets not forget the farmers who work all the time to feed us and of course those of us who are parents our job is never done....take the time to give a big smile and a thought of appreciation to all those who are there for us everyday....

Today I was thinking about how it is my world. That means to me that whatever I want to deal with on a day to day level really depends on what I want out or in my life. I was thinking about relationships in general. What is it that makes me upset? What is it that makes me happy? What is it that I want in my life. Thinking about these things made me realize...again....that it is what I allow to come into my world affects my life. I do not have control over anything but my thoughts. That is the same for you as it is for me. At times I really do forget that with a capitol "F!" My thoughts guide my moods at times...I imagine they do that for everyone. When I am happy there is nothing that gets in my way. When I am angry everything seems to be in the way..Isn't that life in general. I was discussing with a friend about a certain incident in my life. It's not important what it is right now but, what is important is how my friend wanted me to become aware that standing up f...

I was thinking last night about my life. Some of the stories of my life are really just snapshots of what I remembered as a child. Funny how life shapes you. One story that I want to share is one of those moments when you realize that telling your parents what you really are experiencing may not be the wisest move of all. Here goes....I remember very vividly as a child waking up every morning so I would be able to view the morning star. I would wait until the sun rose so I would the first one to say good morning to the world around me. It was a long time ago and I think back that probably I did not grow up with many material things. My parents as I look back must have struggled to raise both me and my brother. So I relied on my imagination to keep me occupied. This however was not my imagination. For many mornings on end I remember be visited by a man who wore a long robe and a hood. He was no threat to me. When you are a child you know things by sensing. How many of you remember not l...

Hello everyone...I am going to be sharing topics that affect each and everyone of us on a daily basis. My life is just like yours. I experience the same joys and sorrows that you do. All of us are mere reflections of each other. I may not be you but, I can guess that at some point what I write will be similar to what you have experienced. I am not writing to do anything else other than inform and possible give a new perspective on your life and experience. I have a boatload of stories. Some will be funny. Some will be sad. Some may even make you say'WOW." In any case I hope that you will enjoy this site.