Philosophy

Refresh and Simplify

October 7, 2012

Too much was going on for me to write my word for September, and I’m even a little late with the October word. So I am doing double duty this month. September – Autumn is usually a time for “refreshing” our lives, our homes, our schedules and more. We have come through the summer with [...]

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Newest Favorite Tweets

June 19, 2012

Sometimes I forget to check Twitter for days (weeks?) at a time, especially when I’m busy with teaching. When I checked today, these are some that stood out for me over the past 24 hours. If you are a Twitterer, consider following me. Check it out on my blog site. It’s right below the blurb [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

January 18, 2012

SouthBeachDiet  Incorporate a new fruit or veggie each day into your meals! gothamwriters  All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.” -Molière (b. January 15, 1622) GionGior   Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. ~ [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

December 31, 2011

No, I didn’t kill the Tweetie Bird! This is a picture of a Christmas Roast Duck, offered by some friends in Toronto several years ago. goodreads “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” LamaSuryaDas  What is the most important thing?  OutofyourBox_EN  The price for mistakes is often already paid by others. Ask [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

December 18, 2011

WeightWatchers  “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.” -Mary Pickford DeepakChopra  Absolute purity is lifeless .”Water which is too pure has no fish .” WeightWatchers  “Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

October 26, 2011

RumiQuotes That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change PreventionMag Pop quiz: What is the largest edible fruit native to North America? The

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

October 12, 2011

DrFuhrman Eat your GOMBBS! (If you want to know what GOMBBS are, click here.) FrommersTravel 12 Ways to Make a Splash in Hawaii (Click here for a fun slideshow.) lowcarbtraveler Another road trip this weekend, then we’re plotting some holiday travel If you could travel *anywhere*, where would you go – and why? finecooking Pumpkin [...]

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Favorite Tweets on this Day of Remembering

September 10, 2011

A dear friend just now sent word of a book that touched her heart, Healing the Heart of Democracy – the Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit by Parker Palmer. I plan to read it on her suggestion alone, because the title speaks to what I want to say here. Several [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

August 31, 2011

gothamwriters GothamWriters Wrkshp “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 28, 1749) DrEades Michael Eades, M.D. George Bernard Shaw: “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” AmwayUS Amway US “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~ [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

August 24, 2011

goodreads “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” RumiQuotes Close the door of words that the window of the heart may open. Kurt_Vonnegut Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. LamaSuryaDas Everything is subjective. Pagtwit A house that has [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

August 10, 2011

DeepakChopra We empower others by allowing them to be themselves. This means we react to people without preconditions and preconceptions. parisreview The Paris Review If you want to change the world’s spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this. – Andrei Voznesensky tpr.ly/ozIpSq QuotablePoets I hold this to be the highest task for [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

August 3, 2011

PuukoholaNPS Pu’ukohola Heiau NHS Lava lake in Kilauea could “overflow” according to USGS. Latest information: http://ht.ly/5LIjK #Hawaii #travel #eruption Joanna Paterson Shift Perspective http://nblo.gs/kIv20 The South Beach Diet 20 mins interval walking every day can rev up your #metabolism. Learn more about the benefits. http://bit.ly/1Cu4L #southbeachdiettips Deepak Chopra #CosmicConsciousness If you sacrifice the present for [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

July 20, 2011

DrEades Michael Eades, M.D. Just one more reason I love my morning three or four cups. http://bloom.bg/p4l1OB Zen_Moments Zen Moments Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. ~ William Saroyan CreateWriteNow Mari L. McCarthy “Your words surround you like fog – they [...]

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Favorite Tweets of the Week

July 12, 2011

Do you Twitter? Follow me @lavalily for some wonderful quotes from other Tweeters. Here are a few of my favorites from the past week: NutriliteHealth NutriliteHealth “The greatest wealth is health.” -Virgil OutofyourBox_EN Fred Krautwurst Stay connected with younger people. They can help you understand new paradigms #networking BabaRamDass Ram Dass Ambition does to intuition [...]

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Lessons from Lava

November 26, 2010

The official theme of this blog is ” homesteading, food, travel, and philosophy from the side of a volcano in rural Hawai`i.” So far, I’ve done mostly the first three, but very little of the fourth – philosophy. I could elaborate philosophically on many topics, and over the next few months, bear with me as [...]

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Too Old To Dream?

July 12, 2010

In the mid-thirties, The Night Is Young, a movie with Nelson Eddy and Irene Dunne, featured the song “When I Grow Too Old To Dream.” Most of you reading this will remember that song. I was a mere babe in arms when it came out, but I know the song from having heard it over [...]

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Prayer As An Act of Human Kindness

December 4, 2009

  On December 1, the National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) members began a month of daily posting on the theme of MITZVAH. My first post for that was on the meaning of “Mitzvah.” In that post, I talked about watching boys going through their Bar Mitzvah at the Wailing Wall (or West Wall) of the [...]

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Kwan Yin

December 3, 2009

  I made my first visit to the Far East in 1966. If there is such a thing as a past life, I discovered it there. There are several events that have stuck with me for the past 40 years plus to validate those happenings. One of those uncanny situations revolved around statues in various [...]

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The Gardener Within

July 30, 2008

Remember the old saying: “April showers bring May flowers?” It takes more than just showers to have beautiful flowers in May – or June or July or any month. It also takes digging and planting, nurturing and patience, faith and prayer. My maternal grandfather was a strong typical “type A” personality, but when he worked [...]

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