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    • 1. “for the time being……”
    • 1. “Life Awake”… “Life-quake Prepared-ness Guide” … Encouraging Well Being and Developing Resilience
    • 1. Becoming more “proactive”… simply… OGT …. “One Gutsy Thing….”
    • 1. Big Magic …. Opportunities!….Coincidence??? Serendipity?
    • 1. Teaching…our own inner children well…soft, gentle, warm, loving…
    • 1. Turbulence! “Ohhhh…of course….” BUT… “maybe not so……..”
    • 1. “Charts”… for Using VIA Core Strengths, Positivity qualities, Perfections ….
    • 2. The Blue Sky: Understanding “reactions” dynamics…awareness, realizing, shifting…leading to a more positive mind
    • 3. Beauty and grace… within the flow of “comings and goings” in our lives
    • 4. A continual flow of a sense of “I”… coming together…here for awhile…dispersing…
    • 5. “Open the hand of thought”…and let the fixed view go…
    • 6. Different colored ropes…specific to our own minds…recognizing getting “to the end of our rope…”
    • 7. Rope in, roped out, roped around…colors of mind
    • 8. “Of course it’s speculation….what do I know?”
    • 8. The “Compassion and Love” Chair…immersing and sharing…
    • 8. The Chair…sharing the warmth and love of “the 5 A’s…”
    • 9. “Hush up….and “dance” with me…..”
    • 9. “I’m in the mood to be happy….we can be happy, too”
    • 9. “Put me on the highway…show me a sign….”
    • 9. A joyful pledge… “never ever ever again…”
    • 9. Dance with me…. Resilience
    • 9. Identifying, accessing and living with…positive “qualities”
    • 9. Nurturing kindness and compassion… “pocket cards”
    • “The Six Perfections” …a kind and soothing meditation
    • Eight Worldly Concerns…developing understanding, awareness and balance
    • Rekindling our light….
    • Believe…..in yourself
    • If I took fear out of my life….
    • The House of 1000 Mirrors … reflections of “self”
    • “I allow you to be you and me to be me”
    • Avoiding…. sigh….
    • Abundance and depth
    • Friday June 17
    • “Sing in me muse….” …Homer’s Odyssey
    • She Carries Me…lovely song
    • Taking back “my power”…choices, decisions, options and energy
    • ” The sacred beauty of the everyday…. “
    • Charging……a Sense of Well Being
    • “Metta” …. loving kindness
    • The things we do to avoid doing amazing things
    • “Show me the way to go home…. “
    • Increasing flexibility, kindness and compassion… “I didn’t mean to be unkind….”
    • Life is a gift….
    • half full….half empty
    • Learning to “rest at zero”= not interpreting
    • Why? … “There’s naught so queer as folk”
    • Too many rabbit holes…
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    • Hold You In My Heart
    • Older 2008 “Pockets…”
    • “98 Years Old and Still Writing” Kathy’s aunt’s writing

1. “Life Awake”… “Life-quake Prepared-ness Guide” … Encouraging Well Being and Developing Resilience

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