This starts a series of 5 posts about the a-has that I just experienced. I am exploring Co-Creation on many levels, and I want to share this with you.
We start in my kitchen
Wednesday morning found me writing in my kitchen. I had a window open, because my cat likes to climb the tree outside one of our many kitchen windows and sit on the roof and sing.
I could hear a blue jay screeching outside my window.
Then, he flew in my house and perched on the fan by the window.  He …

So, I promised you a post about gratitude.
We hear this all of the time, on Oprah, on Twitter, in Church, from our Mothers.
Be Grateful.  Make a list of the things you’re grateful for. Put 5 things on it every day.
Why do this?
How does gratitude have a lasting positive effect on our lives?
The 12% feeds the 88%
12% of our thoughts are conscious. Just 12%. 88% are unconscious.
We have control over the 12%.  We have only a subtle control over the 88%.
But the unconscious is SO IMPORTANT.
Because the unconscious directly affects …

So, we have our past lives, right? Those previous lifetimes where we loved and lost, went to war, had babies, hunted, gathered, etc.
And we’ve talked about how we carry those lives into this life, and how sometimes we use an old solution on a new problem, and things just don’t turn out right.
Well, there’s another source for beliefs that don’t help us. That’s ancestral DNA.
From our parents to our grandparents to our great-grandparents, back back back, the ideas and beliefs they had, we carry them with us.
Each generation back has …

Remember last week?
Remember when I talked about the difference between suffering and annoyance?
Remember how I said that you should write down everything you’re suffering about and put it in a jar?
Here’s a few gems from my jar:
1.  Door to Door Meat Salesman
2. Sugar Ants in my kitchen. Party in last night’s spaghetti.
3.  I told Brian that I kept off that 12 lbs from my 2 month $600 stint at the gym, and he said, “Well, it’s probably converting from muscle back into fat and fat weighs less than muscle.”   How …

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. -Paulo Coelho
We went Boy Camping this weekend.
When we are not boy camping, we are doing your typical PNW Snooty-Foody camping. We listen to NPR on the way to our campsite. we pack along charcuterie and tapenade and lots of good books to read. We do a respectable hike. We find an obscure lake to camp by. We drink in the stars and the mountains and have a bonfire. There …