Oct 27/2024 Being Mindful

        It is hard. Back in August, I pick up my heart meds. Get it home there are only 90 pills. Suppose to be 180.  Call my Doctor, tell him what happened. The script was for 90 pills,  cost $20.00.  Last week pickup my heart meds again, thinking it was all fixed , same result 90 pills $20 .00. Can't  bring them back. 

       I assumed the order was now correct. Wrong. Should have checked in the store, then refuse to take them. The new pills are also $20.00.  Now I will have to pay another $20.00. So I lose 40 dollars during this minor chore over 3 mos.  Why?  Because I wasn't  mindful.  And when your not mindful, it bites you.  This lesson is hard to learn. I have learned it in some areas but there is much work to be done here. I guess a lot of times it's about slowing down and letting yourself think more carefully.  This lesson cost me 40 bucks and I don't have money to waste.  Hopefully lesson learned, at least in this department.

Oct/24/2024 He who Hesitates

        Is not necessarily lost. The other day, I'm in my car exiting a shopping center, making left at the light. I'm the first car. The road is  4 lanes wide. The green left  arrow is on. I hesitate. 10 secs later a car comes barreling through his red light. Accelerating  as well. He would have hit me on driver's  side. So when at lights always hesitate especially if your the first car. It is a habit for me. But this one was close.  Focus on driving. It takes one little mistake to mess up your life. Look in your rear view window  when slowing for a light. I usually stop 40 ft from car in front of me looking in rear view mirror, to make sure the guy is slowing down. Then I close the gap.

       Around here I see many cars with body damage. I can see why. Always look for potential problems. If I see like a minor road rage episode, I will turn around to avoid them.  Go out of your way just in case. Also be polite on the roads. Don't drive when your upset  or too tired. Letting people merge and not blocking an egress.

       I am thankful that I hesitated this time. You just can't forget. It's being mindful or living in the now.

Oct 18/2024 Black Plastic

        More bad news on the use of plastics. Black plastic kitchen utensils and food containers have high levels of a flame retardant in them. They may have come from cross contamination during the recycling process. Like the plastic that is found in tvs and other electronic cast offs. Plastics continue to mess up the earth and it's inhabitants including getting into us. California initially banned the use of grocery type bags. Over a couple years they found that people switched to the heavier plastic bags. They treat them as one and done and toss. Poundage wise it's 10 times more waste than the initial thin bags. Now California is going to ban almost all plastic bags. Good for them. Another thing is not to use weed block in your landscaping. It is full of plastic.

Oct 15/2024 Some Homework

        Get a notebook. Write the date.  List 3 things or experiences that you want to occur in the near future. Now pick one of them. You can still think on the other two but mostly the first one. Write down the steps you think you have to do to get to your goal. At the end of the day, write your plusses and minuses in your attempts to getting to your goal. This should be every day. Still do what you have to do. But do at least 1 thing in realizing your dream. Keep on pushing. When writing about it, this want of yours, write a lot of descriptive words about it and what you would feel if the want was realized. To change your circumstances is going to require work. But it's going to  be your creation. Making a more rewarding experience  for yourself. This will show you that you do have control on what can come into your life. When obstacles arise, look for ways to work around them. Always tell yourself you will get through any problem that comes up. If the problem is difficult take a break from it, sleep on it. Ask divine spirit for help then pay attention to dreams and what goes on around you. After a month goes by look at your book and see how close you are in getting that want. Always be greatfull for any incites you have gotten. You can do this. Also stay away from negative people. If you hear a negative counter it with a positive right away.

Oct/12/2024 Cash is King

        This story comes from MotorBiscuit. An Oregon man was saving up for an RV. Any spare cash he would squirrel away for his future dream caravan. He scrimpted his way to filling a Van shoe box with 23,000 dollars.

     One day he came home and notices his Van shoe box is not where he left it. Full on panic takes over his demeanor. Turns out his wife went on a cleaning spree. The box went into the recycling bin and into the big recycling truck. He calls up the recycling company. His truck's haul was put on a larger truck and sent to a recycling plant out of the county. The gal in charge  recycling  plant let her people know about the missing money. She told h im that finding the money would be very hard.

        One of her guys spotted the corner of a twenty on the conveyor belt. They stopped the belt and found the crushed box. They recovered it all except 320 dollars. The guy wanted to give the workers a reward. The gal in charge said no, that she would think of something special for her workers. This is good karma playing out. Everyone was uplifted in this story. This is how it should be in all our dealings in life's trying and fun predicament s. Even if it doesn't go our way, we make the effort and look for that teaching moment. When things get tough, make the ask of spirit and look for the answer.

9/23/2024 Working with Divine Spirit

        My wife has a medical condition that requires a procedure every 14-15 months. We are out of state. She can only eat diluted baby food half a cup per day. Finding someone to do the procedure right away is a challenge. 

         So I ask Divine Spirit for help. I don't sit and say, ok DS fix it. I have to take action. Phone calls is where I start. After 4 days, I wrote Monday is the day it happens. I call one of the doctors, but today there is a problem, the phone goes to voice mail but It said the voice mail is full. I can't leave a message. 2nd nurse at different hospital I deal with, calls me and says she needs the first doctor who initiated the referral to sign off on the procedure.  She says she will call and get back to me within an hour. No phone call comes after hr passes. Call the nurse after 90 minutes.  She says they didn't get back to her but she will tell me by noon 12:30 rolls along no call. I drive to first doctor and talk to his nurse. Tell her about my wife and  voice mail problem. She says the doctor isn't in. She will tell head nurse. Within 15 min I see a call on my phone, while at store. I call the first nurse back and she got the all clear for the procedure to be done next week. So being persistent pays off. So it's like two pieces of cloth that you want to come together. You act and push and spirit mends the two together. The problem at the hospital where I couldn't leave a message gave me the impetuous to drive on over there. During this whole ordeal,  I had 1 goal and that was a date for an excellent doctor to do the procedure in a timely manner. Thankyou  divine spirit.

9/10/2024 Knock Knock

        Who's there?  Incompetence! No thanks.

        A women wants her bedroom door put in. I go look at the job. A door outside laying against the house. Inside another door in hallway with damaged jambs and trim. What happened here. Her teenage son kicked in her door. Her brother says he'll fix it. Gets 1 door brings it back. It's a left hinge door. Wrong door. Doesn't take the door back to store. Gets another door right hinge this time. Door is still wrong because what was needed was a 30 inch door. Both times he gets a 28 inch door. Another problem was it was a 2x3 wall. Most walls are made of 2x4s. Guy gives up. More work for me because of the 2x3 wall. Have to add a 2x3 to rough opening. Get the door in. I say where is the door knob. It's in my brother's car at his house. Don't worry about it. Two weeks I'm back for something else. I see no knob on door. I ask about it. She gives box of new door knob. It usually goes in fast. I can't get in after 10 minutes because of screw alignment. I noticed before in her neighbors trash a broken door. I go grab it. Cut it up and put in trash but I take off the knob. Put it in her door in no time. Look at box for new knob from Wallmart says ...made in China. Yeah....tell her stuff like this,  forget Wallmart.

       So my 2 week delay and coming early, allowed me to get that knob and save time and money. To me that was a small gift from divine spirit or God if you will.  I've seen this happen many times. The door got damaged so she couldn't bring it back. She was out 150 dollars just for the door. But she did learn a lesson. In one way or another, we do pay for our lessons.