Let's Read

The Alchemist was an excellent choice to read as my first book for the challenge. Not only was it short, it was exciting and resonated well with me.

The second book was selected by someone who  I admire and is an inspiration to me. I met this man a couple of months ago, and from day one his energy has been infectious. The wonderful Sean M. Field suggested Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

Oddly enough I know the third book I'm going to read. I wanted to wait until I was finished reading the book I had before I asked the next person, but I came across the Canada Reads 2015 Options and a few of them caught my eye. But the next book to read is from the Best Books of 2014 list - The Back of The Turtle by Thomas King. There's something about the Indigenous American culture especially their worldview that I connect with. I feel like I must read this book. So it will be my next choice.

Happy Holidays and happy reading all!

Different

It's been a very long time since I've typed a blog post. Maybe I will, maybe I won't revive the blog. Regardless, I wanted to put some ponderings down on electronic paper. I don't even know if people, apart from the governments, read this.

I've began a reading challenge that hopefully will not die. At least for 2015, every month I am going to read at least one book. Each month I am going to ask one trusted friend to suggest one book that friend believes I should read. It can be a book on anything. I will try my level best to complete the book. I'm also assuming that if they think I SHOULD READ THIS BOOK then I will have no problem reading the book.

Book #1 for this personal challenge is The Alchemist.

 So far, it's a very lovely book. It definitely makes me happy to start this personal challenge.

Sometimes you have to do something different. Different doesn't have to be extravagant. Different just has to be...different.

Serenity Prayer

by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) 

 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.

Inspiration In Many Forms

I used to dance. I think back to when I restarted my dance training and how difficult it was for me. Relearning everything I once knew, and knowing that I wasn't as bad as I was overwhelmed me. I danced and became better; learnt new things and grew, and that made me elated.

Unfortunately, I have stopped again. I am scared about dancing but I know for my sanity and health, it's the best thing I can do. I need to take some sort of dance training. The sooner the better.

Although I am sad that I currently don't dance, watching dance videos inspire me to be the best I can be in whatever I do. I don't feel like I am suppose to just drop everything and find a way to dance. Oddly, it makes me think about my desire to be an environmental educator and urges me on to develop myself to enter and soar in that field. The positive energy from the dance in internalized and my mind says this positivity can be applied here, here and here. The motion does awaken a desire to move physically, but it also urges me to follow my dream.

Inspiration comes through in many ways. Let life inspire you to follow your dreams.

I Dream

I dream of love.

As the old time love songs play on (because really this new age "love song" isn't talking about the same type of love as the old age love song) I can't help but think I dream of love. A love that is tried and true, honest and strong. I dream of a love that isn't found perfect but is made perfect through hard work, patience and God's mercy.

Often I wonder if I will ever find such love, or I wonder if the one I am to love and be loved by has been met. My mind is always in overdrive, especially when this topic rolls around. I wonder if I was even raised to be successful in love. Who knows. Who knows.

In the meantime, I dream of love.