Look for it

Budding youth have an advantage; even though the older may feel wiser, and are more seasoned, it's true - young minds who are bursting fourth with fresh new ideas have the advantage of not yet being jaded by the world or being held back by limitations that sometimes might be felt by those who have been there, and done that.  This is a great advantage because it enables them to accomplish things that others might just leave behind. I think this is one way in which our world perpetuates itself. Without our bright youth shining their eager beaver ideals forward, moving headlong into their future, we might give up on some important things.  Or, we would have to look past our limitations, our previous dismal findings, or our otherwise discouragement and push forward, doing what might sometimes seem pointless, or that we have just given up hope on.  Sometimes there is hope.  We just have to be willing to find it. We just have to remember to never stop looking for it.  I want to make it my resolution this year to remain positive and seek out ways to improve.  I want to look beyond the daily routine, and find the MORE that is out there.  It is always there, waiting for you.  You just have to reach out and find it! :)

Wake Up and Grow!

What is wrong with people of today... why don't they wake up more often, and come out of the shell of the daily grind, and look at the bigger picture around us all?  There is a huge, vast world and there's a lot more to it than just waking up and going through your daily routine, going to bed, getting up and doing it all over again the next day.  Wake Up! :) 

Enhance your senses... smell the trees... feel the sunshine, breathe the air.  Not just breathe it, but really feel it in your lungs.  Pet an animal, but not just a pat on the head, but truly share love from you to it, and feel the love it returns to you. 

Open up your awareness of other people in the world around you, and soon you might feel you've been so oblivious before your moment of awakening your conscienceness. Be more aware of other people around you and your interactions with them. Nothing irritates me more than someone who is totally immersed in their own little bubble and barely take notice of others around them; and by that, I mean in their day-to-day lives, not at times such as holidays in remembering to give gifts, etc.  Pay attention, for example, to other people on the road. Often it seems that others out there barely offer notice, or care, to the fact of others around them.  It's as if their minds are too cluttered with the daily this-and-that's they're busy with to look beyond and see the bigger picture of life.

Remember that every feeling, both good and bad, are what make us human.  Relish each and every emotion, every feeling, every sensation.  Life is a precious gift that should not be wasted!  Enjoy it, and live it to its fullest, for it is far too short.  Accomplish as much as you can with all that you have!  For most of us, ourself is our biggest limiting factor. We forget to live. We forget to keep pushing beyond our boundaries.  Examine every aspect of your life and see if you can spread your wings and fly.  Some of us are already soaring, but could fly even higher and farther by moving things to the next level!  Never be complacent, for when you become stagnant, you stop growing.  You have the capacity to keep growing up until the day you dye.  Though not physically, your mind has the vast expansion space to last you a lifetime, and beyond.  Use it. :)  Appreciate it.  Fill it up, and share it with others.  For without each other, we would never grow as fast or move as far as we will from sharing in each other. Learn from others, and absorb their knowledge. Combine it together, then mix it with your own to yield something far greater than either alone would normally think of. Perpetuate what you know forward by teaching it to others, and to your children. Give them the tools they need to do the same.  For without this, we could never advance.

Fall Delights

It pains me to see Fall brushed past so briefly, as everyone gets swept into the Christmas season.  Not at my house. :) Just as Halloween got its entire month of October, Christmastime won't be here until December!   We will enjoy Fall throughout November.  I am greatly looking forward to all the delicious Thanksgiving food!

This week I decided to make an orange pomander. I didn't have any pretty ribbon handy (it was late) so I strung it up with some yarn to dry.  In a couple of weeks it should be starting to dry nicely. It should smell good and spicy just in time for Thanksgiving. ;)

With my Fall flag waving in my yard and my orange hanging around in my living room, I plan on making some mulled cider and preparing my Thanksgiving cooking list.  Mmm, mmm.  I can't wait for turkey time.

Live Life!

It pains me to hear people just say that they're going to give everything over to God's hands.  Not to be misconstrued - not because I don't believe that God takes care of problems.  But like with SO MANY things, I think people have the wrong grasp of how it happens.  God is in EVERYONE, and everything living.  Deity works THROUGH you, not FOR you.  So essentially you're giving up if you throw your hands up and leave it to chance.
You ought to want to take control and do what you feel is right (not what's most convenient or beneficial to yourself....) your SELF, because YOU were imbued with a very special gift!  It pains me so greatly to see people just throw it all away and waste their gifts.

I know many people mean well, and they're just following what they've been taught.  That pains me too, though.  Why more people don't think beyond their box.  Turn the light on.  Wake up your spirit, your mind, and your soul.  LIVE.... live YOUR life... it's your LIFE!  I think we will be judged upon how we live it.  What we did with it.  How much we did with what we have.  Sitting around like a good little sheep, following your herd, doing what a shepherd tells you to do... sorry, it's just NOT for me. 

Live by example.  Enjoy the amazing and beautiful world you've been given, and the gift of the mind you have received with which to enjoy it! :)  Enjoy every ounce of it you possibly can, and share it, and treasure it!  Love, and be loved.  Don't waste time on negativity; it's just NOT worth it.  It shortens your life and spoils the life experience of others.  Make the most of everything.  Don't waste a single day.  One day you'll wish you had more and you'll know what I mean.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html

Magnets, rock energy, and the Earth's magnetosphere

I think it's pretty fascinating to have learned how (natural) magnets (not electromagnets) gain their magnetism: from the Earth's magnetosphere.  The magnetosphere deflects the solar radiation energy beaming out towards the earth.
(how magnets are formed) "Some very ferromagnetic (easily magnetized) materials naturally become magnetized if they sit in one direction within Earth's magnetic field for a long time undisturbed."

I also find it fascinating that they retain this property even if they've left the Earth (magnets still work on the Moon).  So the rocks like Quarts and magnets obtained their properties from the Earth, but they are not constantly feeding upon it.  They are permanently changed to be that way. It's not that the material is just reflecting magnetism - it is actually changed permanently and exhibits the property itself.