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Member Since: 07/31/08
Last Login: 05/14/12
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Program Progress: Day 92
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I have a wide variety of musical tastes - I like most music live. In general not a fan of country, but there are occasional exceptions. I love the blues live. HUGE Tom Waits fan, Like The Beatles. 60's and 70's rock. Alternative. Classical, even some rap and hip hop
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Paulisasuccess's Life List:
| Owner/operator of an arts centre with plenty of time for my own creative works of writing/directing and acting |
| A weight of 180 pounds or less |
| A $60,000 year job in the arts. |
| a $0 balance on all credit cards |
| $20,000 in savings, and in each of the kids' college funds |
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says:
Hi,
I'm new at this, but thought I would try to help myself and I stumbled across your "smell the flowers" comment. Funny how our little guys have an insight that we as adults often overlook.
My 5 year old said something similar, he said "Mom come with me we got to smell the flowers" I was in such a hurry coming out of the church doors on one particular Sunday to get to my car and my little guy went to the church garden patch to look at the flowers, smell them and pick one for me. Of course I told him he could not pick them but his heart was in the right place.
I scoped a little deeper to see what I could really learn from that and I see how flowers are the blossomed result of a seed that had plans all along to grow into the beautiful tangible element that we could, see, touch, smell and enjoy. The seed once nutured by the sun, water and God's grace would ultimately become a work of art and beauty in an aray of colors, shapes and sizes for all to see an hopefully admire.
In parallel with stopping to smell the flowers and witnessing the finished product of what was once a seed can mimick ones life. Life is like that flower seed with a mission to blossom in the essence of time and produce a harvest of beautiful things that can be an inspiration to others. So, I'm glad I stopped that day to smell the flowers with my little guy. Thanks for your post paul it has reminded me to be grateful as well as thankful regardless of the happenings in my life around me at this time.
9/8/08
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