HOME FROM THE HILLS

Hi, it's good to be home.  I had a wonderful time visiting with my friend.  I complained to her about the weather but it was really not that bad.  It's just that my body is acclimated to a warmer climate.  Flying in and looking down at the snow covered peaks and valleys already had me shivering.  But typical Denver, the snow was gone the next day, at least where we were.

We didn't do much great and grand, just enjoyed being with each other, visited with some other friends, went shopping, trumped around and ate.  I told her I would be amazed if I didn't have to be rolled onto the flight back.  

Boy, Denver sure has grown in leaps and bounds since we arrived there in 1983.  Federico Pena, a Denver Mayor, at the time ran on a motto of "Imagine a Great City". He was a visionary because it really is a great city.  It has everything you could possibly want (well it doesn't stay warm in the winter, which is why we are not still there).

Did I mention that my friend is a  massage therapist.  Needless to say I was treated to body work of some kind every day I was there, sometimes full massages and sometimes just shoulders, or feet, or cranial.  Now I am well-adjusted (obviously the cranial work didn't take or I wouldn't have made that statement.  lol)  Good thing she doesn't read this blog or I would be in deep trouble.

I want to thank you all for the good wishes you expressed in my post about being gone.

So many friends to be thankful for.

Have to get off now or I will be in hot water. Actually I will be because I have to hit the shower and be ready before hubby gets back.  We have errands to run today.

The following is something I came across in a book at my friend's house and it was too good not to share.

THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

HANDED DOWN FROM ANCIENT SANSKRIT

1.      YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY

You may like it or not, but it will be yours for the entire period round.

2.      YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life.  Each day in this

school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.  You may like the lessons

or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3.      THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS

Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation.  The failed experiments

are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately works.

4.      A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL IT IS LEARNED

A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it, then

you can go on to the next lesson.

5.      LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END.

There is no part of life that does not include its lessons.  If you are alive, there

are lessons to be learned.

6.      THERE IS NO BETTER THAN ‘HERE’

When your ‘there’ has become ‘here, you will simply obtain another ‘there’

that will again look better than ‘here’.

7.      OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless if reflects to you

something your love or hate about yourself.

8.      WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU

You have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is up to

you.  The choice is yours.

9.      THE ANSWERS LIE WITHIN YOU

The answers to life’s questions lie within you.  All you need to do is look, listen

trust.

See you later for more Aimless Ramblings.