The Road Not Taken

Have you ever noticed the way some people react when their lives have been upended by a tragedy?

A story on yesterdays news highlighted the resilience and courage of a woman who lost both her legs in the terrorist attacks on London last July. She now has mechanical legs which are state of the art and “have to be charged overnight like a mobile phone”, according to this lady.

She also stated that as Doctors are prone to do, they told her that she would not be able to walk again and all that nonsense. She is now declaring that she will soon be able to drive again and that she wants to learn how to fly a plane.
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As a rule most of us never really slow down and look at our daily routine. From the time we wipe the sleep from our eyes until we ease our tired bodies back into bed late at night it is almost as if the day has happened and we were just along for the ride.
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After recently visiting the web site I posted the address of yesterday on this blog, I wanted to drop the authors a line to say how much I enjoyed the site. On their About Us page they begin... "Dear Friend - dear ... [Continue reading this entry]

Continuing my spiritual theme for the week... I stumbled across this site today: http://www.sentient.org/ The reason I like some of the content here is that it makes it simple, effortless and for me that makes sense. For example... "No one knows what is ... [Continue reading this entry]