Alive 'n Well

23/02/2023

from Mark Manson:
"When we fail to choose things for ourselves, we unwittingly outsource our lives to the world around us.

If you don’t choose how to use your time, others will choose for you. If you don’t choose what is important, others will choose for you. If you don’t choose what to think or believe, others will choose for you."

When we fail to choose things for ourselves...

05/08/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/honesty-loves-company

I hope you remember that when you let people see the messy, flawed, goofy reality of you, it’s like you’re giving them a gift. Some people won’t appreciate it, but others will smile with relief and recognition and say, “Oh, thank GOODNESS. I’m not the only one!” ~ Nanea Hoffman

24/06/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/our-2nd-anniversary

Two years ago, Alice and I began writing blogs- she daily and I twice-weekly. We started doing this as our small but sincere response to a lot of fear and negativity that was coming from a coronavirus, politics, racism and many other corners. We wanted to add to the scaffolding constructed by people...

20/06/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/concrete-idea

19/04/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/from-10-000-feet

Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. ~ Paulo Coelho

18/04/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/the-eye-of-the-beholder

I love the smell of rain. The feel of the soil's texture between my fingers as I pot a plant or redig a hole is treasure. When I see an osprey dive for a fish or a gopher turtle chomping at grass I am in awe. You might say it's the spring weather or the season, but truthfully I consciously search fo...

17/04/2022

Happy Easter!

Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is. - Jessica Harrelson

16/04/2022

See if the author's name doesn't make you just smile...

It does not matter what comes up. What matters is who you are, the one perceiving it. -- Mooji

15/04/2022

Good Friday feelings...

On one route we take for our daily exercise, my bride and I pass a driveway with a rack of various flowers and potted blossoms accompanied by a sign that says "Take a plant; leaf a plant." The punster in me loves this play on words, but I also like the sharing it invites. Take and Leaf. All of us. O...

15/04/2022

Calling all feelers and inviting all thinkers...

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. - Plato

14/04/2022

Bonus Daily Dose:

"In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair."

-- Howard Thurman

14/04/2022

What's the second secret? Anybody?

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. - Robert Morley

13/04/2022

Paraphrasing the late Kenny Rogers, "You gotta know when to close them..."

Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity, or ignorance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. -- Paulo Coelho

12/04/2022

https://www.alivenwell.net/post/the-high-c-s

Years ago, Dale Carnegie wrote that "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." This reminds me of what my mom (and perhaps yours, too) would often quip: "If you don't have anything good or nice to say...

12/04/2022

"Miracle" means to LOOK AT something... can you see together that is just "divine"?

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

11/04/2022

auto-motivational...

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. --Henry Ford

10/04/2022

Come on... *give* in to this...

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

09/04/2022

Are you a jasmine or an amaryllis?

April in Tampa is when two (among many) plants shine! The amaryllis and the jasmine both produce beautiful flowers. The amaryllis comes from an underground bulb and its stalk can be nearly 3 feet before opening up in an array of 3 or 4 blooms that resemble the trumpet bells of Easter lilies. The jas...