<div dir="auto">Thank you Marilyn. I have it downloaded on Kindie. I see he begins with a birthday reflection on August 1st. Close enough! I have been practicing gratitude. Adding delight to it makes for happiness! My memories of time with you are delightful and life changing for which I will always be grateful.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 9:20 PM Mari Crocker <<a href="mailto:maricrocker@gmail.com">maricrocker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Thank you, dear Judy, wise woman at the young age of 75. You mentioned “delight” as one of your next 15 year goals. May I recommend Ross Gay’s “The Book of Delights,” a collection of essays, written each day of one year, as a record of the “small joys/delights” experienced by the award winning poet, author teacher. Marilyn<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Judi White via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_4122719209247991824Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><p>Having been breathing for 75 years, I stand ready to celebrate it all.</p><p>When I stood at the end of 25, I created a 20 year time line for my life's direction.</p><p>I did the same again at 45.</p><p>At 65, I was beginning to be aware that a day would come sooner than later when I will have breathed in a final breath.</p><p>So, it made sense at the time to create only a ten year timeline.</p><p>Upon reflection, I must admit that the last ten years has been chock full of lessons learned. More so, even than the first 65 all together.</p><p>I have been retired from a money making career for the past ten years.</p><p>I have not been tied to a rigid time frame, nor have I had to be somewhere.</p><p>All of life, every day has been totally up to me.</p><p>Time and space were according to my own volition, not driven by the need to make money to survive.</p><p>During this past ten years, and it has taken this long, I have been learning to free myself of living someone else's dream, accommodating them by what I do and when I do it.</p><p>In the past ten years, according to my timeline's guidance, my inner mind and heart have been connecting with Soul's purpose in a whole new way.</p><p>I am finally experiencing freedom. I listen to my intuitions and make decisions accordingly.</p><p>My sense of social responsibility is more closely aligned with listening to real needs.</p><p>My participation in responding to suffering is more realistically correlated to my age related abilities.</p><p>I now stand at the apex of this 75th year with the intention to compromise on the time span of a timeline. I may die on the way, but, Hey!, that's what ut's all about!</p><p>The next timeline, 15 years, will be a journey of developing the discipline of living fully in the present moment, right where I am. The "goals" will be filled with compassion and delight.</p><p>As I breathe in I am breathing a final breath on 75 years on earth.</p><strong>As I breathe out I am breathing unto the first moment of the new timeline's essence.</strong><div dir="auto"><strong><br></strong></div><div dir="auto"><strong>Judi White, Crescent City, FL.</strong></div><div dir="auto"><strong><br></strong></div><div dir="auto"><strong><br></strong></div></div>
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