Fleel Like A Kid . . .

Yesterday, I CHOSE to fly a kite with my 6-year old granddaughter.

I certainly checked the box "do things that make you feel like a kid again!"

Annabeth (so excited that she could hardly stand it):  "I'm flying a monkey!"

Priceless.

Carpe diem Life,
Have a great weekend,
David Kuhn 

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More potential manifesto notes / Prayer in Progress:

I live my life knowing that if I have failed in all other areas of my life if I know that I have the love of my family and friends, I am a success.

People won't remember things I say,
And they will forget a lot of things I do,
But, people will never forget how I made them feel.

Help me realize that joy and happiness lie within me and not in loving and desiring the things of this world.  The Master knows he has everything.  And so happily accepts whatever part of Everything it is that shows up in any particular moment.   He knows that all is perfect, that life is perfection playing itself out.

All things (life) are temporary.
If I find myself feeling too attached -- grasping -- to an object, I will stop and see it al already broken or gone.

Seven words that can change the world:
Be Healthy.  Be Kind. Respect the Environment.

To be continued . . .

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn

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I know, this is starting to sound like that song that never ends.
But, here are a few more (and there's plenty more) notes I've taken that could someday end up in a personal manifesto.  Obviously, keep it simple is not one of them:

What will bring me joy today?

Help me laugh at myself, lighten up, and not take life too seriously.  I have flying monkeys and I'm not afraid to use them!

Inspire me to be a good role model, not a critic, to my children and all my brothers and sisters.  Grant me the wisdom, patience, tolerance, understanding, and love.  Help me to listen, speak, and live truth/honesty. 

To be continued . . .

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn

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Enjoy the process.

Joy is contagious.  When I bring joy into my life, the world around me catches it.  When I inspire every thought, word, and action with pleasure and joy, I am living heaven on earth.

What random acts of kindness will I perform today?

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn

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Today is part nine of my Prayer in Progress notes.  My hope is to someday boil all this down into some sort of personal manifesto that will give my life meaning and direction.  Again, these are core values, beliefs (or at least things I think I want to believe in), what I stand for or hope to stand for, and how I intend to live my life the few years I have to remain on this earth.  The hope is that it will stand for both a statement of principles and as a call to action.  We shall see.  And who knows, I may look at some of these with fresh eyes and call bull shit!

In the meantime, I’ll share a few every day here in hopes that if one person stumbles upon this blog and reads one meaningful line, then I will have helped the world in at least one tiny way.  These are in no particular order - for now.  Again, I’m sorry that I didn’t/done always cite the author:


Mine is not a better way, mine is merely a different way.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

First, clean your own room.

May my reach far exceeds my grasp.  Remember that everyone has problems that need to be solved.  Contentment and joy come only in giving myself away.  Give me the insight to see and to listen and to hear people's needs and then serve them.

Dear God, you are like a sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere.  This means that the center of God is within me and also in everyone and everything I meet today.  It is only when I see God in everything -- not only the things with which I agree but (and perhaps especially) those things with which I disagree -- do I see God at all.

To be enlightened is to be one with all things.

To be continued . . .

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn

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Today I will practice patience and tolerance.

How will I treat people today?
Today and every day, I  will value people just the way they are, for this is the most important thing I can do for another human being.  I must recognize that they, too, are sovereign and free.  I will treat people and the earth with respect.

I will unconditionally extend to each person I meet -- no matter how trivial the contact -- all the kindness, compassion, mercy, grace, sharing of joy, and equanimity I can muster.

I will bless all for all is the creation of God -- are are all One. "For this I know, all things are connected, like the blood that connects our families, all things are connected."  -- Chief Seattle

Help me be a builder of dreams and not a crusher of spirits.  Judge not, but keep always my own counsel and allow others to keep theirs.  Listen, but don't judge or speak.  Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.  Silence can be misunderstood but never misquoted.

To be continued . . .

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn

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When I find myself thinking that a situation is the BEST or the WORST it can be I will respond:
"Maybe so; maybe not.  We shall see."
Life is change.  All conditions are temporary.  Thsi too shall pass away.

Today I will look for and find the seed of good in every adversity.  The Law of Averages states that if I keep trying I will eventually "succeed."  Persistence.

It is what it is.  No condition is "good" or "bad," it just IS.

Everything in life in holy.  I will not condemn what I observe and call it "bad."  Rather, I will ask myself, "What about this have I judged bad, and what, if anything, do I wish to do to change it?"

To be continued . . .

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn