Vote today!

Vote today with your brain and your heart! Make a ripple for us all!  See what happens.

Jumping off a cliff

Today is voting day in the U. S.  It is the mid term elections.  Many people just sit at home on their butts and just let it happen.  THIS IS NOT THE YEAR TO BE APATHETIC OR TO PISSED OFF TO VOTE!  This is the year that may indeed be the tipping point between us all going to hell in a hand basket or saving our sorry #%%&*.  Did you know that the large majority of the Republicans took an oath and signed a pledge to do NOTHING while President Obama was in office?!  They signed this pledge right after he was elected.  Guess what they have done?  NOTHING!  This is called OBSTRUCTION.  Do you honestly think that if we give them the House of Representatives they will do anything else except take away more things from us?  Do you realize that one of the first things they want to do is to take away medical insurance from millions of people who just got it just because Obama signed it into law? What kind of person does that? PLEASE!  I know some things haven't gotten done.  They fight him at every level.  We don't even have a Surgeon General to oversee our critical health situations because of them. OPEN YOUR EYES!  PUT PEOPLE IN OFFICE WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU AND OUR ENVIRONMENT! not ignore you just because they have theirs.  Make a ripple, vote for the good of all, see what happens.

Good service should be rewarded!

On Sunday, my dear friend and I had a delicious lunch at the "Dockside" restaurant.  It is a beautiful restaurant on the Coeur d Alene lake.  The view and food were wonderful, but I have to extend my gratitude to our waiter David Marshall.  He made our afternoon!  I hope his employer realizes what a valuable employee David is!  People may not know, but many waiters and servers are paid below the minimum wage.  They rely on their tips to make up the difference.  Many are trying to live on these wages.  So the next time you go out for a meal, no matter where it is, please respect your waiter for the good work they do, in the form of a good tip.  Make a ripple, support this profession! see what happens.

Welcome Thailand!

We are so glad to see you.  Welcome to our family!  We are looking forward to seeing you again!

Being happy...

is the best way to measure your self as a success in life.  What makes you happy?  It certainly can come from a lot of things, but no one else can make you happy!  I hear this all the time.  "I will make you happy."  This cannot happen as happiness is generated from within.  Happiness comes from being content with ourselves because we are doing and being the best we expect ourselves to be and considering other people to be as important as we are.  Being happy is not easy, we are so distracted by stuff.  But, look around, many people with many things are not happy.  Finding happiness is looking within with love and patience and acting from that place.  Make a ripple, think about it, see what happens.

Celebrate today!

It is a beautiful sunny day.  There is no wind, and the sky is that medium blue you see in the fall.  There are no clouds.  I awoke to hear my neighbor raking between the houses.  They are all out in their yard, raking away.  Not me!  I say, "road trip!"  I am going to take my wonderful friend and go to the next state to have a yummy lunch on the lake.  The leaves and pine needles will still be here when we get back, but it is supposed to be the only sunny day in a week!  We are going to fill our pineal glands and feel the joy.  Maybe, after the great lunch settles, we might rake a while, but we will probably take a nap instead! Make a ripple for yourself today, see what happens!

It's about everything

I love doing this blog!  I write the minute I get up, most days.  I don't seem to run out of things to say but very occasionally, and even then, something comes up.  What is hard for me is to explain to people what it is about.  It seems like whatever I say sounds sort of simplistic.  So I have come up with a description.  I would like to believe this blog is about EVERY THING. I am grateful every day to have thoughts about so many things, and even more grateful to have  been able to reach out to so many people.  It is my fondest desire that it is indeed creating a ripple of kindness, thoughtfulness, and attention to ourselves and others to make the world a better place, one day and one person at a time.  Thank you so much for making a ripple!  Namaste.