Be A Rainbow In Someone Else’s Cloud

Posted on March 29, 2014 by admin

Be A Rainbow In Someone Else's Cloud

I’ve learned…. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

I’ve learned…. That when you’re in love, it shows.

I’ve learned…. That just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.

I’ve learned…. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

I’ve learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.

I’ve learned…. That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

I’ve learned…. That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.

I’ve learned…. That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

I’ve learned…. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

I’ve learned…. That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I’ve learned…. That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I’ve learned…. That we should be glad that we don’t get everything we ask for.

Credit: These have usually been misattributed to Andy Rooney. Most of them are written by various people and compiled in a book “Live and Learn and Pass It On” Compiled By H. Jackson Brown Jr. This is a partial compilation of the collection that is making the rounds on the internet. The remaining part of the compilation will be posted next week.

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How Yoga Rescued A Ballerina

Posted on March 29, 2014 by admin

Amy Leonard

Amy Leonard


Ballet is one of my absolute favorite things. The elegant movements, the balance and skill required, the ability to tell a story through music and movement alone; there’s nothing quite like it. I enrolled in my first ballet class when I was two-years-old. Although I loved the tights and the tutus, I don’t think we were doing as much “ballet” as we were screaming and running around the studio in tiny ballet slippers. But as I grew up, ballet and other types of dance became an integral part of my life. I began dancing competitively in elementary school, and from an early age was accustomed to spending anywhere from five to seven days a week practicing. Although it was a busy schedule for a child, it was a labor of love and I couldn’t have enjoyed it more.

I continued to dance through high school, but was soon struck by the reality that while I loved dance and was fairly good at it, I didn’t have the “ballerina body” of many of the pre-professional girls at the studio where I trained. I wasn’t tall, I wasn’t super slender, I didn’t have legs for days; the list of missing attributes went on. I once had an instructor swat at me for using incorrect technique. “The way you’ve turned out your leg is going to make your thighs overdevelop and get even bigger,” he told me. I didn’t even understand what that meant at the time, I was just horrified by the insinuation that not only were my thighs “big,” but that I was actively making them “bigger.”

Shortly before my 17th birthday, I was hospitalized for severe anemia and was instructed to stop training for at least six weeks. During those six weeks I felt something that I hadn’t felt in years – absolute freedom. I could spend time with friends after school rather than rushing to dance class, I could engage in other passions like writing for the student newspaper. While I loved ballet (and all forms of dance), and still do, I didn’t return. It had stopped being enjoyable for me, and started being a place that I never quite measured up.
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A Car Going The Wrong Way!

Posted on March 29, 2014 by admin

Driving Wrong Way

As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.

Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Herman, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on Interstate 280. Please be careful!”

Herman said, “It’s not just one car. There’s hundreds of them!”

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Pure Love

Posted on March 22, 2014 by admin

Who are we if we are not love? This beautiful song by Mitten and Deva Premal speaks wonderfully to our journey into finding love. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Let pure love bloom!

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Knuth Versus Email

Posted on March 22, 2014 by admin
Donald Knuth

Prof. Donald Knuth

Many of us complaint about leading exceedingly busy lives. So busy are we that we have no time for solitude, yoga, meditation, or even our own wellness. But are we really busy? Or are we just slaves of routines that we have created around us. Is it necessary to lead these hyper-connected lives? Here is an example of somebody who has chosen a different path:

I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don’t have time for such study.
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