The beauty of Fall

Murphy, NC



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A great day

Micki and went to lunch at a place called Coconuts, it is on the Inter-Coastal Water Way in the middle of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The sky was as clear blue as it could be. The temperature was in the low 70’s with just a light breeze. We could see the sky scrapers in the down town sky line above the horizon, what a beautiful sight. The boat were moving slowly north and south seemly sucking up the warmth of the sun.
We had a light lunch and enjoyed the view. It can’t get better than this unless you love the looking at snow capped mountain and to tell you the truth that sounds pretty good. The only problem for me is I have lost my love for cold weather sense I left Michigan in 1970.
My point is this is the season to take the time to unwind and enjoy life. For each of us this is a different thing, but whatever it is takes, take the time to do it. You will be better for it.
Actually we should not wait for this special season to unwind and get relax, because we all get wound up and let the pressure build within us. This is not healthy. I think we all know this, but we don’t always realize that we are so uptight, so my suggestion to all of us, and that includes me, understand the value of taking time for our self and appreciate what we have.
What do we have to appreciate? Well most of have good friends. Take some time to let them know how much you care about them. You might be surprised that they well feel good about your comments. Not only will they feel better, but you will to.
Go out and let those that are important to you know you really care for them. It will do you both good.
Happiness to you
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Thanksgiving

I am thankful my family and I live in the best country in the world. I wouldn’t get into the present issues or the past, but just say we are free and say and do almost anything we want. Now I want to give thanks to my mom and dad they keep me on the straight and narrow and gave me lots of love. Not just by saying they loved me, but through their actions. They’re not with me known in body put they are here in spirit. And my love for them is as strong as ever.
I give thanks to Micki my wife for over 44 years. If I did all the research to find a wife I couldn’t have found one as good as Micki. She is so loving and caring not only for me but for our children and friends. Not to mention the rest of the world.
Our two sons Skip and Todd could not be better. They both have wonderful children. This could be a long story so I won’t bore with all the things our grandchildren have done.
Now let’s take a look at our friends. Jan and Bob, though their hundreds of miles away, are still our dearest friends. They are the laughers. You can’t help but love them. Then we have our friend form the old neighborhood. Doug and Marsha, Linda and Mike we always have great times with them. Doug, Mike and I play golf every Wednesday. The six of us play most Sundays. Micki has had to stop for awhile because of a bad shoulder. We do so many things to gather I am not going to mention then now. Except that all of us have to been to most of our children’s weddings and we still enjoy being with one another.
Enough is enough, I am sure my stories about thanksgiving sound a lot like yours and I hope they would, because they are all part of why I have had a very very happy life.
Thanksgiving to all and
Happiness to you



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The Bridge

I get to look at this almost every morning on my walk. I'll show other things I see on my walk from time to time.

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It is all right to be different

It is all right to be different

You are different form me, actually you are different form everyone else in the world that has ever been. Now that’s different. So don’t you think it is important to be able to live with different people? Not to put works in your mouth, but yes it is. We been doing this most of our lives so why worry? The question to you, have you been doing a good job getting along with others? Most would say sure I get along with most people and they would be right. But are they getting the most out of the relationships with others. I am not suggesting that you use people, but rather work with others and they work with you to achieve common goals.

I am not going to get into personal missions, goals and objectives, we’ll leave that for another time, but I would like to have you think about how and why improved relationships with others if important to all. One it saves energy. What I mean by that it we can greatly reduces conflict that is unnecessary. Without this unwanted conflict you and other can use the energy to make things better for ourselves and others.

When we can first understand ourselves it is a big step forward in improving relationships. Some people just know themselves. They know their strengths and their weakness, other don’t and that can be a problem.
Let make it simple, when we are not in conflict with others there is more time to do things that can be of benefit to ourselves and the world. That may sound like a very grand statement, but it is a fact.

Though we’ll never totally reduce conflict, but wouldn’t it be a much better place if we did. Part of reducing conflict is knowing that we are different from others and learning to appreciate them.

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The little people challenges

The little people challenges
Last weekend my son Skip was out shopping, with soon to be three year old daughter, Zoey. Everything was going well until Zoey stopped and started starring at something she wanted. Skip said let’s getting going Zoey, but she wouldn’t budge. Finally Skip said we have to go now, but she wasn’t going anywhere until she got what she was looking at. Skip explained to Zoey that here birthday was just day’s away and she would be getting gives then. Also, to reinforce the point that Christmas was just a little over a month away and Santa would have more gifts for her. In no way did she want to listen to her Dad. All she wanted is what she looking at. Finally Skip said NO, you can’t have that. Well very definitely she put her one hand on her hip and with the other hand pointed her finger at her Dad and said ‘You can’t say NO to me”.

Saying no to her was not a option she wanted to hear as far as she was concerned and at that time Skip really did not want to cause a roucous in the store, so he did what any red blooded parent would do and punted. He looked at Zoey and said” You wouldn’t want me to tell Santa what you said would you” Zoey didn’t even take a second and said “I am sorry Daddy”.

Daddy and Mom can be up against some real focused minds with these little people. So the challenge is how to deal with them without causing major problems. Skip dealt with Zoey by knowing that Zoey wanted Santa to bring her gift and if she didn’t mind her parents the gifts might not come on Christmas morning.

Yes sometimes we just have to say no and deal with the outcome. But, to cause less conflict if we can find something that is important to other person and use that to reduce or eliminate the conflict that might result, this is good. Food for thought.

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Happiness is when things are going right.

Happiness is when things are going right.

That is a true statement. However, the real test of inter happiness is when things are not going right. Now I don’t want you to go out and makes things not go right, they happen naturally enough.

When things don’t go right and you can still feel happy in side then you know you have inners strength. The inter strength will help you even more when things go right. Let’s look at what builds your inner strength. Doing the right things is one thing. Understanding that we cannot always make the right decisions is another.
One of the many things is to remember, that things are not as bad you think and when things are GREAT there are not as great as you think they are. The more you understand this the more the peaks and valleys of life will not seem as difficult.
When things don’t go right look at what you can learn from it. Look how you and eliminate the problem in the future. All of us make mistakes. Don’t beat yourself because did. Mistake is just part of being human. Let it go and move on. This will free you up to take on new opportunities.

Opportunities are all around us, we just need to keep our eyes open for them. You might have a client leave you because you couldn’t meet all his demands. You might find you have been spending way too much time for the amount of profits. Now you can put more effort into existing clients and potential new clients that will give a much better return for the time and effort.

Happiness is helping other and yourself.

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