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I am striving to be a peaceful soul. Life and human issues seem to always drag me down. I fight for what I believe in, however at times I am told I should just allow life to happen. If you do not respect and honor your own beliefs, who is going to respect you. 

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/" /><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>428</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/kimmysharinglight/pxnu" type="application/atom+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEIEQXY4eSp7ImA9WxNUFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-2005194141076691447</id><published>2009-11-06T08:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T08:08:20.831-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-06T08:08:20.831-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="just listen" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><title>Just Listen</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SvQs-WjzlPI/AAAAAAAACxE/Phmueozv_Rc/s1600-h/listening.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SvQs-WjzlPI/AAAAAAAACxE/Phmueozv_Rc/s640/listening.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;When you accept  as a simple fact&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;that I feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then  I can stop trying to convince&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;you and get about this business of  understanding what's behind this irrational feeling.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;And when that's  clear, the answers are obvious and I don't need advice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Irrational feelings  make sense when we understand what's behind them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;Perhaps that's why  prayer works, sometimes, for some people - because God is very  quiet,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;God just listens and  lets you work it out for yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #d9d2e9; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;So please  listen, and just hear me.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #d9d2e9; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And if you want  to talk, wait a minute&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #d9d2e9;"&gt;and I will listen  to you.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt;&lt;span id="profile_status"&gt;&lt;span id="status_text"&gt;I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="profile_status"&gt;&lt;span id="status_text"&gt;Plutarch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Mark Twain said, “I have been through some terrible things in my life,  some of which actually happened.”&lt;br /&gt;
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These words hold great wisdom; the  wisdom of knowing that there is no sense worrying about the past or fearing the future.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Your past will not change, and your future concerns may never come.  No reason to be turning things over in your mind again and again. A little reflection is a good thing. Remember, how, exactly, does one live in the moment? &lt;br /&gt;
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Surround yourself with people who make you feel good about yourself!  &lt;br /&gt;
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Meditation happens spontaneously. Just ask how to remain unoccupied, that's all. That's the whole trick of meditation - how to remain unoccupied. Then you cannot do anything. The meditation will flower.&lt;br /&gt;
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When you are not doing anything the energy moves towards the centre, it settles down towards the centre. When you are doing something the energy moves out. Doing is a way of moving out. Non-doing is a way of moving in. Occupation is an escape. You can read the Bible, you can make it an occupation. There is no difference between religious occupation and secular occupation: all occupations are occupations, and they help you to cling outside your being. They are excuses to remain outside.&lt;br /&gt;
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Man is ignorant and blind, and he wants to remain ignorant and blind, because to come inwards looks like entering a chaos. And it is so; inside you have created a chaos. You have to encounter it and go through it. Courage is needed - courage to be oneself, and courage to move inwards.&lt;br /&gt;
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I have not come across a greater courage than that - the courage to be meditative.&lt;br /&gt;
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But people who are engaged outside - with worldly things or nonworldly things, but occupied all the same, they think ....and they have created a rumor around it, they have their own philosophers. &lt;br /&gt;
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They say that if you are introvert you are somehow morbid, something is wrong with you. And they are in the majority. If you meditate, if you sit silently, they will joke about you: "What are you doing? - Gazing at your navel? What are you doing? - Opening the third eye? Where are you going? Are you morbid? Because what is there to do inside? There is nothing inside."&lt;br /&gt;
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Inside doesn't exist for the majority of people, only the outside exists. And just the opposite is the case - only inside is real; outside is nothing but a dream. But they call introverts morbid, they call meditators morbid. In the West they think that the East is little morbid. What is the point of sitting alone and looking inwards? What are you going to get there? There is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
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David Hume, one of the great British philosophers, tried once... because he was studying the Upanishads and they go on saying: Go in, go in, go in - that is their only message. So he tried it. He closed his eyes one day - a to.tally secular man, very logical, empirical, but not meditative at all - he closed his eyes and he said, "It is so boring! It is a boredom to look in. Thoughts move, sometimes a few emotions, and they go on racing in the mind, and you go on looking at them - what is the point of it? It is useless. It has no utility."&lt;br /&gt;
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And this is the understanding of many people. Hume's standpoint is that of the majority: What are going to get inside? There is darkness, thoughts floating here and there. What will you do? What will come out of it? If Hume had waited a little longer - and that is difficult for such people - if he had been a little more patient, by and by thought disappear, emotions subside. But if it had happened to him he would have said, "That is even worse, because emptiness comes. At least first there were thoughts, something to be occupied with, to look at, to think about. Now even thoughts have disappeared; only emptiness....What to do with emptiness? It is absolutely useless."&lt;br /&gt;
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But if he had waited a little more, then darkness also disappears. It is just like when you come from the hot sun and you enter your house: everything looks dark because your eyes need a little attunement. They are fixed on the hot sun outside; comparatively, your house looks dark. You cannot see, you feel as if it is night. &lt;br /&gt;
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But you wait, you sit, you rest in a chair, and after few seconds the eyes get attuned. Now it is not dark, a little more light........&lt;br /&gt;
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You rest for an hour, and everything is light, there is no darkness at all.&lt;br /&gt;
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If Hume had waited a little longer, then darkness also disappears. Because you have lived in the hot sun outside for many lives your eyes have become fixed, they have lost flexibility. They need tuning. When one comes inside the house it takes a little while, a little time, a patience. Don't be in a hurry.&lt;br /&gt;
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In haste nobody can come to know himself. It is a very very deep awaiting. Infinite patience is needed. By and by darkness disappears. There comes a light with no source there is no flame in it, no lamp is burning, no sun is there. A light, just like it is morning: the night has disappeared, and the sun has not risen.... Or in the evening - the twilight, when the sun has set and night has not yet descended. That's why Hindus call their prayer time sandhya. Sandhya means twilight, light without any source.&lt;br /&gt;
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When you move inwards you will come to the light without any source. In that light, for the first time you start understanding yourself, who you are, because you are that light. You are that twilight, that sandhya, that pure clarity, that perception, where the observer and the observed disappear, and only the light remains.&lt;br /&gt;
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Osho - from the book What is Meditation?&lt;br /&gt;
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Photos and text © Osho International Foundation&lt;br /&gt;
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Book not to miss, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom, by Osho. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6070469299102355922-4274326235781754967?l=www.kimmysharinglight.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~4/ouWkodJTgEc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/4274326235781754967/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/10/meditation-is-non-doing-osho.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/4274326235781754967?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/4274326235781754967?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~3/ouWkodJTgEc/meditation-is-non-doing-osho.html" title="Meditation is Non-doing - Osho" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="03422295540355202920" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Suj2zVfETJI/AAAAAAAACwk/8rd4UTYxAYg/s72-c/silence.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/10/meditation-is-non-doing-osho.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A04ASHo-fCp7ImA9WxNVFU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-408739672093595230</id><published>2009-10-25T17:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T17:32:29.454-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-25T17:32:29.454-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trick your ego" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fire of life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="your ego" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ego trick or treat" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="better than others" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="you are what you are" /><title>Ego Trick or Treat</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SuTRoCQwQoI/AAAAAAAACwc/9X0folZjqoQ/s1600-h/ego.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SuTRoCQwQoI/AAAAAAAACwc/9X0folZjqoQ/s640/ego.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;When you think you are different from the others, better than the others, they are just tricks your ego is playing on you, beware!&lt;br /&gt;
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You are just what you are, nothing different, nothing better, a simple sparkle in the fire of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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and the meditation will be happening. &lt;br /&gt;
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And once you have got in tune with your being, &lt;br /&gt;
you know the way, you know the how. &lt;br /&gt;
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Then it does not matter where you are. &lt;br /&gt;
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Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest&lt;br /&gt;
or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. &lt;br /&gt;
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You can simply close your eyes&lt;br /&gt;
and disappear inwards. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;My Wednesday blog is about Ryan Douglas Hurst's Character Opie, on Sons of Anarchy on FX Networks.&lt;br /&gt;
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You might have seen Ryan on his breakout performance starring opposite Denzel Washington in Disney's mega-hit Remember the Titans, for which he also directed the film's second unit footage. Additional high-profile feature film roles include Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, the Coen Brothers' The Ladykillers with Tom Hanks, We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson, Patch Adams with Robin Williams and Rules of Engagement with Samuel L. Jackson. Hurst's 15 years of steady, wide raging television credits include Steven Spielberg's Taken (mini-series, 10 episodes), TNT's action packed cop drama Wanted Emmy® award winning Medium (three seasons, reoccurring). Source:&lt;a href="http://www.fxnetworks.com/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &amp;quot;1573d0d28665f2b0ab380fddf4dbf1cb&amp;quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.fxnetworks.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Without sounding ridiculous, this character for Ryan shows me again the difference between acting, and true UNREAL talent. As I re watch season one, and this season, I can't find words to describe how friggin scary his gift is.&lt;br /&gt;
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I know I cannot be the only one that gets emotion pulled right from them!&lt;br /&gt;
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I watch Medium with the kids, and it's difficult to believe Ryan plays both roles.&lt;br /&gt;
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I wish I was a true tv and movie writer to explain what I feel.&amp;nbsp; Luckily I have Alan Sepinwall. He is an awesome writer for the &lt;a href="http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/alan_sepinwall/index.html"&gt;Star Ledger&lt;/a&gt;, critic, and fellow blogger ---&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/"&gt;here on What's Alan Watching.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Please don't take my word on it!&amp;nbsp; Put the kids to bed, and watch this show.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy is worth every Tuesday! The ENTIRE cast makes me smile, and the MUSIC is out of this world.&amp;nbsp; If you decide to watch, I am on Twitter, tweeting away while watching! &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/abutterflyloves"&gt;http://twitter.com/abutterflyloves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Amethystium is an ambient/New Age electronic music project created by Norwegian producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Øystein Ramfjord. Under the Amethystium name, Ramfjord has released four full-length albums, Odonata, Aphelion, Evermind, and Isabliss on Neurodisc Records, as well as a collection of works, Emblem&lt;br /&gt;
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Light is Energy. &lt;br /&gt;
Light is Wisdom. &lt;br /&gt;
Light is Life.&lt;br /&gt;
Happy festival of Lights. &lt;br /&gt;
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India is a country that is culturally so rich that it celebrates one or the other festival almost every month. And most of these festivals have their origin in Indian Mythology and there is very interesting stories about them. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is the spiritual and religious richness in India that each festival is related to some or other deity. &lt;br /&gt;
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One of such festivals is the 'festival of lights', Deepawali. &lt;br /&gt;
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The festival of diwali is celebrated by the Indians throughout the world in a joyous mood with great zeal and enthusiasm. Diwali is not limited to just one-day celebration like many other Indian festivals but it is a unique one for it brings a series of festivals and holidays with itself. Diwali is the festival of worship of Goddess Lakshmi, lights, crackers, cleanliness, sweets, lots of shopping, happiness, togetherness and almost one week's holiday. &lt;br /&gt;
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The light of lights, the self-luminous inner light of the Self is ever shining steadily in the chamber of your heart. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sit quietly. &lt;br /&gt;
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Close your eyes. &lt;br /&gt;
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Withdraw the senses.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;At any time, ANYONE, can decide, hey, my way isn't working, let me try something else. To those of you that are looking for a change, best way to teach ownership, is to take ownership. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Here is a personal example of my failure, and listening to others to help the one I love. Kimmy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I brag about my strong daughter, but like most pre-teen girls, besides boys,  music, and friends, she had no direction. I knew she was only 13ish, but I  didn't want her struggling like me.&amp;nbsp; I wanted better motivation for education  and further education.&lt;br /&gt;
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My daughter spent most of her pre-teens and early  teen life grounded. Yes.&amp;nbsp; We didn't take the bs.&amp;nbsp; But the groundings weren't  working. By mid first semester of her sophomore year of High School, she had  several Fs. Her room was BARE.&amp;nbsp; I was failing to motivate her. My husband and I  were so frustrated with her silence, and all the non communication.&amp;nbsp; I wanted,  and tried to blame the school. It was kind of hard to blame all her teachers,  the deans, and principals via phone and email.&amp;nbsp; I work full time, and have since  I was 18.&amp;nbsp; I don't have the energy to raise a kid, be a wife and mother, and a  full time recruiter in the beginning of a recession.&lt;br /&gt;
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I had a boss that was  bold. Alyssa's actions and grades at school was causing my work to suffer. My boss pulled me aside.&amp;nbsp; Even though she didn't have kids, she said, &lt;b&gt;"Kimmy,  YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! YOU NEED TO GIVE THAT GIRL SOME FREEDOM!!! RIGHT NOW SHE  HAS NOTHING TO LOSE OR GAIN!!"&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Now I could have turned my nose up. I could have ignored. But my way wasn't  being motivating. I was failing that kid.&amp;nbsp; I knew I had to try something else, keep changing it up. &lt;br /&gt;
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I asked that  same boss, if she would let me schedule a meeting with the High School during  work hours.&amp;nbsp; She agreed. So I went. &lt;br /&gt;
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Every teacher Alyssa had, every  dean, every principal, came into the office right after first bell. What started  out with me asking for notification of her grades, quickly turned into a "bash  mom" session.&amp;nbsp; The grades were available online I was told. Why wasn't I checking? They asked over and over. As the  meeting went on, I could see that the room shifted to a kid failing, to it is  MOM's fault!!&amp;nbsp; And guess what...I had to hide a smile!!&amp;nbsp; Yes!&amp;nbsp; It was!&amp;nbsp;I was failing her. The teachers now felt obligated to help Alyssa, to save her from mom.&amp;nbsp; It was so funny to watch the entire room back my daughter, and look at me as a working mom.&amp;nbsp; It was great!&lt;br /&gt;
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After that day, those teachers took a personal interest in Alyssa. One of her  study hall teachers, on his own, invited the Girls Track Coach to 2nd hr study  hall to meet Alyssa.&amp;nbsp; One permission slip later, She was on the girls track  team, running, sprinting, shotput and discus.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; She met more friends.&amp;nbsp; After  that, the choir teacher, decided to introduce Alyssa to the theatre crew.&amp;nbsp; So,  when she wasn't performing in the choir, she was doing lights, set up and take  down. MAN...I should have taken ownership of my failures earlier!!!!&amp;nbsp; With the  better grades, and the fact she was at school until way after 7 pm every day,  she was also going out more with friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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I had to keep an eye on those  grades. I gave warning, I set that kid up for success.&amp;nbsp; Did she still miss  assignments? YUP.&amp;nbsp; But instead me never checking, it was caught early, and I  jumped in the bad guy role.&amp;nbsp; I called or emailed the teacher asking how I can  help.&amp;nbsp; I think the teachers started pushing Alyssa more just to make sure I  didn't email.&amp;nbsp; Again, being the bad guy brought great pleasure watching Alyssa  and the teachers pushing each other to succeed.&amp;nbsp; They suprised me her  Senior Year, she was asked to write for the "South Side Story, (school  paper),and published at three or four stories every issue.&amp;nbsp; Alyssa didn't even tell me at first.&amp;nbsp; She placed the first edition on the coffee table without telling anyone. When I saw her first article, I couldn't even read it, tears were welled up.&amp;nbsp; Little did I know she was watching our reaction from the dining room.&amp;nbsp; Proud mom, proud daughter!&lt;br /&gt;
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Can you imagine what would have happened if I would have told my boss  that she was being judgmental, and clenched my teeth and said, "don't tell me what to do!"&amp;nbsp; Can you imagine if  I had told her, "The reason she doesn't do her homework is because she is so  much smarter than the other kids?"&amp;nbsp; My boss would have told me that I was being  ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;
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It wasn't her suggestion that changed Alyssa. It was changing  my behavior. Changing it up taking the blame! We changed up our efforts, to try  something else; because what we as parents were doing wasn't working for her.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Our  society has an excuse for every thing that happens in life.&amp;nbsp; How much of society  is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results? How  many parents find the world to blame, because they rather blame something, some  disease, anything but themselves? Are they teaching their children to take  ownership, or find something or someone to blame?&lt;br /&gt;
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The below post is from  my daughter after reading this.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I asked her if she wanted to add anything  to my thoughts.&amp;nbsp; She knows I get judgmental on issues, so I asked her to take a look to make sure I was able to get my point across in a positive manner. I have to change up my own behavior, to better myself.&amp;nbsp; I have a problem offering opinions and turning that into bashing.&lt;b&gt; I can help it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; I can take a step back and try to get my point across without offending. Take ownership, and make the necessary changes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;To my mom's readers&lt;/b&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To think that this all started over four  years ago... At the time I started high school, all I wanted was the typical  Disney life. What those shows do not show you, is you begin to fail every class,  and end up struggling to find a path that will keep you alive. After failing  three classes my freshman year I began to believe that my high school was going  to end in me&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;graduating a year late,  but the determination of my parents to keep me on the right track and the help  from my teachers made it easier for me to continue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;About halfway through my Sophomore  year&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I found several great friends  who helped me on my path to success. Most of the friends that I had prior to  that; were the no names, and the people who couldn't care less about the world  around them. After that, I found friends whose names were everywhere around the  school; from the play cast list, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;to  the people involved in sports. It made it easier because they all had the drive,  and the will to succeed. Being around that positive energy pushed me to be a  positive force. &lt;br /&gt;
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I ended up passing all of my classes that semester and  every semester after that. I ended up graduating with three credits more than I  needed. And at graduation,&amp;nbsp; I came to say goodbye and hugged a teacher after  graduation. He told me he saw this coming from the start, and that he was proud  to have helped me in my high school journey.&lt;br /&gt;
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My parents, while constantly  working, still always made time to fit me into their day. I made sure after my  sophomore year to include them in my life, and I think that helped out with the  family communication. Honestly, I couldn't of asked for better parents. They put  up with a lot and managed not to kill me in the process.&lt;br /&gt;
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I know that most  people say that if they could go back they would do it differently, but I cannot  help but wonder if the mistakes that I made and the advice that I have received  in the last four years would have been passed along to me if I hadn't made all  of these mistakes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I definitely wouldn't do it over  again though. My current journey of being a full time student, and meeting  several great new friends and a great guy with goals makes me too happy to go  back to high school!&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometimes all you need is that person or people to  catch you when you fall and thankfully I had those people along the  way.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Written by Alyssa Garcia.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Bob was the spoiled child of extremely permissive parents.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Randy remembers a time when he came home "drunker than anything", but instead of getting mad at him his parents "took all the blame and didn't do anything to him...they thought it was their fault - that they'd driven him to do it or something".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For a child to be allowed to run wild like that, with no consequences for bad behavior is very frightening and unsettling; a child looks to adults to take control and set boundaries, "to give him something solid to stand on".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If a child does not receive this kind of support when he is young, it is not unusual for him to continue to seek it through his adolescent years and even to adulthood, through antisocial and even criminal acts.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;According to Randy, Bob desperately wanted his parents to love him enough to set limits to his behavior.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;He would go to great lengths in acting out, just "trying to make someone say 'No'" (Chapter 7).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;So what is the moral of this post??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Be the example to your child!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6070469299102355922-2074734929558352150?l=www.kimmysharinglight.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~4/l2Xazh-4pHg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/2074734929558352150/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/10/bob-only-wanted-his-parents-or-someone.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2074734929558352150?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2074734929558352150?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~3/l2Xazh-4pHg/bob-only-wanted-his-parents-or-someone.html" title="Bob only wanted his parents or someone to tell him &quot;No&quot;?" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="03422295540355202920" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Ssp1mQVqzaI/AAAAAAAACuY/wTonD5AFd-w/s72-c/conversation.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/10/bob-only-wanted-his-parents-or-someone.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MMRn0-eyp7ImA9WxNXFkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-3031389602450996631</id><published>2009-10-04T15:50:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-04T15:51:27.353-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-04T15:51:27.353-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Buddha" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dhammapada" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="think on these things" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dhamma" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="your faults" /><title>Think of you</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SskKcoPW-FI/AAAAAAAACuA/RN4JoKQGK5I/s1600-h/purplemoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SskKcoPW-FI/AAAAAAAACuA/RN4JoKQGK5I/s400/purplemoon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Think not of the faults of others,&lt;br /&gt;
of what they have done or not done. &lt;br /&gt;
Think of your own faults,&lt;br /&gt;
of the things you have done or not done.&lt;br /&gt;
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Taken from Dhammapada. &lt;br /&gt;
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The title, &lt;i&gt;Dhammapada&lt;/i&gt;, is a compound term composed of dhamma and &lt;i&gt;pada&lt;/i&gt;, each word having a number of denotations and connotations. Generally, &lt;i&gt;dhamma&lt;/i&gt; can refer to the Buddha's "doctrine" or an "eternal truth" or "righteousness" or all "phenomena"&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada#cite_note-2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;and, at its root, &lt;i&gt;pada&lt;/i&gt; means "foot" and thus by extension, especially in this context, means either "path" or "verse" or both&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"&gt;. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada#cite_note-3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;English translations of this text's title have used various combination of these and related words. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;I am sorry I haven't posted in a few days. We are moving our office from the burbs to downtown Chicago, and we are pretty busy at work.&amp;nbsp; I miss my blog friends, and since I don't have any weddings to go to, I will visit this weekend!&lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;
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for each of you will be shelter for the other.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now you will feel no cold,&lt;br /&gt;
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for each of you will be warmth to the other.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now there will be no loneliness,&lt;br /&gt;
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for each of you will be companion to the other.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now you are two persons,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
but there are three lives before you: his life, her life and your life together.&lt;br /&gt;
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Go now to your dwelling place to enter into your days together.&lt;br /&gt;
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And may all your days be good and long upon the Earth. - Apache Wedding Prayer&lt;br /&gt;
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I am going to my sister in law's wedding tomorrow.&amp;nbsp;Angela is starting her life with a wonderful man named John. &lt;br /&gt;
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I am feeling a little sentimental. I am posting a picture of Rick and I from our wedding and this wonderful poem I found on the internet. &lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks for visiting me.&amp;nbsp;Have a wonderful weekend. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;I lie on the ground,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and stare into space,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the stars start to move,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
into the shape of your face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I see you there now,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
looking down at me,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with that cute little smile,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
that I like to see.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You say "close your eyes",&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
"tell me what you see",&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I see only two people,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
just you and me.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We're walking the shoreline,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
with our feet getting wet,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
the horizon turns pink,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as the sun starts to set.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We make love through the night,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
on that white sandy shore,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
then I hold you while thinking,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I could want nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Oh I wish I could be,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in that one special place,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
as I lie on the ground,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
and I stare into space.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosie_hardy/"&gt;Rosie Hardy&lt;/a&gt; - I am right here&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt; You brought happiness into my lonely heart&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You brought emotions alive again&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You were not prepared what we were to start&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You were not ready for what was to begin&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You saw my pain and my sorrow&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You made me look forward to another tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
You made me laugh and you made me cry&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But most of all you made me feel alive &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Sharing light with Author Chad Evans. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Be more and more here and now.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Be more and more in action, and less and less in activity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Be more and more hollow, empty, passive.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Be more and more a watcher — indifferent, not expecting anything, not desiring anything.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Be happy with yourself as you are.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Osho.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;
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I had just found out I was pregnant with Alyssa.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rick and I were eighteen, and besides wanting a family, we didn't know much how to do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now our daughter is eighteen. She is a full time college student, doing volunteer work all over our city and county. She worked full time in a Help Desk environment over the summer, and received praise for her work ethic and performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she has free time, she drives to Des Plaines to help my seventy-one year mother with whatever she can help with. She drives grandma to the store, helps out with the chores.  Just yesterday after class, she went to my niece, her cousin's open house, because my brother was unable to attend. She went to all of her classes to gather information on the cirriculum. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know she is going to be embarrassed to read this.  But truly, I could not be more proud.  She has a giving, selfless soul who thinks of others first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessed for the holiday weekend! I hope you all are too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Labor Day!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=7d7f293d-a490-451b-9926-3826ce0630d9&amp;amp;type=website&amp;amp;style=rotate"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://signup.alerts.live.com/alerts/login.do?PINID=42990907&amp;returnURL=http://kimmysharinglight.com"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Windows Live Alerts" src="http://images.alerts.live.com/mcwebsite/graphics/blog/alert_signup_eng.gif"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6070469299102355922-2604401560245227001?l=www.kimmysharinglight.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~4/ZB8R8r2nBEM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/2604401560245227001/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/09/alyssa-college-student-extraordinaire.html#comment-form" title="9 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2604401560245227001?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2604401560245227001?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~3/ZB8R8r2nBEM/alyssa-college-student-extraordinaire.html" title="Alyssa, the college student extraordinaire" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="03422295540355202920" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SqGP6-I8CrI/AAAAAAAACq8/f4p4BfjLWf0/s72-c/my+college+student.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/09/alyssa-college-student-extraordinaire.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak4CRH06fyp7ImA9WxNSFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-5150001154511987891</id><published>2009-08-29T17:57:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T18:36:05.317-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-29T18:36:05.317-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="anticipate success" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="strengthening relationships" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="David W. Edgerly" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recognizing our own weaknesses" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mutual Respect" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="true partnerships" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="another step on the ladder" /><title>Reaching for Mutual Respect</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Spm49aFXIkI/AAAAAAAACqo/qhD9VQPGCgw/s1600-h/another+step.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Spm49aFXIkI/AAAAAAAACqo/qhD9VQPGCgw/s400/another+step.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375530995356738114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Do you respect your partner? I find that one or both partners believe themselves to be truly better than their partner. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not just better at certain tasks or skills; but better as a whole person. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what leads to the idea that if only one's partner could be "fixed" then the partnership would be happy and successful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trouble is most people aren't broken. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life was working before we allied with our partner and will continue to work even if they are gone. We are with our partner because it enhances our life, makes us even more functional and hopefully happier. Not to say that everyone can't improve in certain skill areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respecting our partner has to be built on the recognition that they are fully functional and remarkably capable people. You partner may not be as good as you are at organization, or baseball, or cooking, or gardening or whatever. But, guess what? You aren't as good as they are at many things. Which of you is better? The only answer in a successful partnership is neither!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Partnership can never be about whom is better. Partnership is about recognizing each party's strengths and about recognizing our own weaknesses. Notice that in the weakness area your task is to recognize your own weaknesses without a primary focus on your partner's. That is their job. As you each recognize your weak areas this can be a point of discussion and understanding (perhaps a place for active listening) so you know how and when to cover for each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you can begin to recognize and accept your weaker areas then you've started the process of accepting help. You can hardly ask for assistance if you don't know where you need it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Help without permission is a violation of your partner. Permission can only be granted if your partner has the option to refuse the help. On occasion a partner may want to struggle a little longer or get their ideas or skills more organized before they are ready for further input. Mutual respect includes the ability to wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The journey for partners is to advance the team through mutual growth, success and respect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=7d7f293d-a490-451b-9926-3826ce0630d9&amp;amp;type=website&amp;amp;style=rotate"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article excerpts taken from; The Answer is Mutual Respect by David W. Edgerly, Ph.D. Copyright 1998; All rights reserved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosie_hardy/"&gt;Rosie Hardy&lt;/a&gt; - Another Step on the Ladder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://signup.alerts.live.com/alerts/login.do?PINID=42990907&amp;returnURL=http://kimmysharinglight.com"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Windows Live Alerts" src="http://images.alerts.live.com/mcwebsite/graphics/blog/alert_signup_eng.gif"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6070469299102355922-5150001154511987891?l=www.kimmysharinglight.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~4/j5VeT5dxHoI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/5150001154511987891/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/08/reaching-for-mutual-respect.html#comment-form" title="9 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/5150001154511987891?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/5150001154511987891?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~3/j5VeT5dxHoI/reaching-for-mutual-respect.html" title="Reaching for Mutual Respect" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="03422295540355202920" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Spm49aFXIkI/AAAAAAAACqo/qhD9VQPGCgw/s72-c/another+step.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/08/reaching-for-mutual-respect.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkQGSH04fyp7ImA9WxNTF0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-2933967232364308729</id><published>2009-08-20T06:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T06:38:49.337-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-20T06:38:49.337-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wind beneath my wings" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="enticing me into the fire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="love with a passion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="eyes open" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="beautiful day" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sunshine owns the day" /><title>A Butterfly Loves</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Son6g9e0dBI/AAAAAAAACpI/4uQ4gY-goVQ/s1600-h/abutterflyloves.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Son6g9e0dBI/AAAAAAAACpI/4uQ4gY-goVQ/s400/abutterflyloves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371099474782614546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My eyes open upon a beautiful day;&lt;br /&gt;Full of hope, memories and desire.&lt;br /&gt;You are in my arms holding my soul.&lt;br /&gt;Enticing me into the fire;&lt;br /&gt;And for moments so true, I am whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you with a passion; I knew not I owned.&lt;br /&gt;With each minute that drifts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love thee as &lt;em&gt;a butterfly loves&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wind beneath its wings;&lt;br /&gt;as the sunshine owns the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together we belong,&lt;br /&gt;within each others love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My soul seeks,&lt;br /&gt;with eyes ever seeing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=7d7f293d-a490-451b-9926-3826ce0630d9&amp;amp;type=website&amp;amp;style=rotate"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Sharing light with Kimmy. Striving to create a path between the present course of events and a new course; leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samidoodle/3003873115/"&gt;Photo by Samidoodle, Bring On The Butterfly Effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://signup.alerts.live.com/alerts/login.do?PINID=42990907&amp;returnURL=http://kimmysharinglight.com"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Windows Live Alerts" src="http://images.alerts.live.com/mcwebsite/graphics/blog/alert_signup_eng.gif"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6070469299102355922-2933967232364308729?l=www.kimmysharinglight.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~4/_bD_wDuBenE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/feeds/2933967232364308729/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/08/butterfly-loves.html#comment-form" title="15 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2933967232364308729?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6070469299102355922/posts/default/2933967232364308729?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kimmysharinglight/pxnu/~3/_bD_wDuBenE/butterfly-loves.html" title="A Butterfly Loves" /><author><name>Kimmy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09809873313644835527</uri><email>abutterflyloves@msn.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="03422295540355202920" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/Son6g9e0dBI/AAAAAAAACpI/4uQ4gY-goVQ/s72-c/abutterflyloves.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">15</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.kimmysharinglight.com/2009/08/butterfly-loves.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUAQ34yfip7ImA9WxNTE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6070469299102355922.post-3694449350986763433</id><published>2009-08-15T09:39:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T10:30:42.096-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-15T10:30:42.096-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jennea denner" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kimmysharinglight" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="soar above" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="don't give up trying" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="abutterflyloves" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="soaring above" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wings of Courage" /><title>Wings of Courage</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SobJD7hQHAI/AAAAAAAACoo/0-89JwJTBK8/s1600-h/Jennea+Denner.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PBrZHwohdcA/SobJD7hQHAI/AAAAAAAACoo/0-89JwJTBK8/s400/Jennea+Denner.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370200675039845378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The wings of courage and enthusiasm enable one to fly forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While moving forward we sometimes find ourselves in a position where there seems to be no progress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don't seem to understand the reason for this and we find success eluding us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We try different methods for success but if we look within we find that either we have no courage or no enthusiasm, which prevents us from giving our best to the task.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to have both the wings of courage and enthusiasm in order to succeed. If there is no courage we give up trying. On the other hand, if there is no enthusiasm we get tired and tiredness never lets us work towards success. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So before we take up any task we should make sure we fill both these wings with such power that we will be able to work constantly till we succeed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=7d7f293d-a490-451b-9926-3826ce0630d9&amp;amp;type=website&amp;amp;style=rotate"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Kimmy ~ Creating a path between the present course of events and a new course, leading to new outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjena"&gt;Jennea Denner&lt;/a&gt; please visit &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjena"&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/justjena&lt;/a&gt;/to see more of Jennea's fine work. © All rights reserved!! Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media. Do not duplicate in any form without my explicit permission&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Jennea Denner: Thank you Jennea for allowing me to use your brilliant photography for my site. 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