It's My Life

YouTube - HOW TO MOVE A 100 YEAR OLD CHURCH..

Link: YouTube - HOW TO MOVE A 100 YEAR OLD CHURCH...

This made me smile, especially when the 40 member choir came on screen. We should all sing more about the things that are important, you know?

Sue Teller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uyN5rQbbU  and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdjn1_pppY&NR

Gotta love the YouTube stuff.  "peace out!"

MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home

Link: MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home.

"Welcome to MIT's OpenCourseWare: a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. "

Merouda sent this out to the Northshield mailing list earlier today and I've spent about 30 minutes looking over the classes, dipping into the reading list on a couple plus the lecture notes on one about morality. Very interesting! If I was motivated....most of the reading is probably available through MnLINK and I wouldn't have to skip a reading. Not just motivated right now. But throwing this out there in case someone is!

National Gorilla Suit Day

I've not checked any of the official online holiday calendars; I know it's not on my desk calendar. But that's what grassroot efforts are all about; starting small with a select group of zany people and building enthusiasm and ownership until the movement you initiated spreads to new groups and communities. Eventually the media finds out and promotes it for you and if handled right, your little grassroots effort has now a life of its own.  I think that Talk Like a Pirate Day has more momentum then this little effort but who can say what the next couple of years will bring?

OK, I'm starving!!

I had a good lunch; craving something sweet. And maybe some coffee...

Today is the first day

"Today is the first day of the rest of my life"  I've an embroidered piece hanging on my walls somewhere that says this. It's a good philosophy and I've used it to encourage me at various times of my life to make different changes. This time it's going to help me take the step from eating whatever is convenient to eating low-calorie, good-for-me stuff that will both help me loose weight and support the fighting I am doing. Nothing new here; I've set my feet on this path many times before. It is a continual struggle between convenience and purpose, between short- and long-term goals.

Got my food and my water here. Got the knowledge in my head. So off I go!

Cleaned up Project List

I'd not updated the project list since 6/24. Looking at it, I did most of the stuff on it; armoring is the only thing not done and that's being worked on now. So I cleaned up some stuff, modified that brat/bliaut entry and added some new tasks. Always things to do.

The Foundation for a Better Life

Link: The Foundation for a Better Life.

"Good things are happening in the news. Discover positive news reports from all over the world on individuals making a difference in their market-segments. All news articles relate to one or more values and all illustrate individuals who are ‘passing on’ good values with their example. "

This website contains many stories about people doing good things for each other. It's a great reminder. Also, this is a site that is privately funded. All they want is for us to read, share, and internalize. Enjoy!

I am a D-List Bloglebrity? » Kineda

Link: Are You an A-List Bloglebrity? » Kineda.

Returning to thinking...I've been using this as a signature line:

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
US science fiction author

It keeps me thinking about what is honorable behavior to me and what it means to live honorably. Not going to put into writing here but it is being done. An interesting exercise; firstly just to define honor and then to measure myself against it.

Another quote:

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
US science fiction author

I am going to sit down and focus on my desired consequences over the next few weeks and verify that I'm taking the actions I need to take. That's missing; I've neglected that over the last six months or so.