Mothers Day Quote: The Funny Stages of Motherhood

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From Denny: Just in time to celebrate Mothers Day! This is a special quote about the stages of our lives in relationship to a person who figures prominently in our lives, for better or for worse: Mother.

When you were a child did you ever notice that your parents were growing up with you? That was a pretty astonishing observation that practically knocked me over when it struck my mind for a new awareness. I was three years old.

I soon realized that childhood was not all it was promised to be. From then on I started parenting my parents when they were so stressed they couldn't make decisions and move forward to resolve the situations. If my parents' friends and bosses only knew... :) Who said mothering only applied in the traditional sense?





The Stages Of Motherhood


4 Years Of Age - My Mommy can do anything
8 Years Of Age - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot
12 Years Of Age - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything
14 Years Of Age - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that either
16 Years Of Age - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned
18 Years Of Age - That old woman? She's way out of date
25 Years Of Age - Well, she might know a little bit about it
35 Years Of Age - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion
45 Years Of Age - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it
65 Years Of Age - Wish I could talk it over with Mom...


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Funny Mothers Day Quotes and Trivia - Cheeky Quote Day 28 Apr 2010


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4 Special Quotes to Anchor Your Dreams

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From Denny: Two of these quotes are amusing yet true - and two are certainly good advice. Dreams remind us we are spiritual beings living in a physical world. Here we can easily discover our inner Universe at a much slower pace than in the pure spiritual realm. The physical world is governed by temporal Time so we can process our experiences with less confusion. The pure spiritual world can be daunting and downright disorienting for the uninitiated without knowledge or understanding. Take advantage or your Dream Time. Enjoy, learn and grow with it.

One of the ways to accomplish spiritual growth with your dreams is to set your attention upon a particular thought as you go to sleep. Your spiritual mind will take the waking mind's interests and instructions and deliver the messages back to you that you most are in need of at this time in your life. Any of these quotes would be a good starting point.


Quotes


* Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. - Grey Livingston

* Dreams are nature’s answering service – don’t forget to pick up your messages once in a while. - Sarah Crestinn

* Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

* Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. - Edgar Cayce


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Cool Earth Day Links, Message From Our Prez

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From Denny: Since I've been getting bombarded with email about Earth Day - a lot of it worthy to visit - it deserved a post to pass along what people are doing to appreciate their planet.

There are news articles, children's activities and suggestions of how you can help in small ways every day. Make every day your Earth Day! :)

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Earth Day, 40 Years Later: How Far Have We Come? - 20 Million Americans Joined in First Earth Day; Organizers Say 1 Billion Worldwide Taking Part Today





Letter from Vice President Joe Biden


Good afternoon,

We’ve been celebrating Earth Day for 40 years now, but the truth is that tomorrow may be the first one when we are truly able to say that we have started down the road to a real clean energy economy -- and a better world for our kids.

Today I am kicking off the Administration’s celebration of Earth Day in advance by announcing $452 million in Recovery Act “Retrofit Ramp-Up” awards. These awards will help make energy efficiency affordable for hundreds of thousands of homeowners and businesses, and are expected to create tens of thousands of jobs in the process.

And this is just a tiny sliver of what we’ve done. As the President’s point man on the Recovery Act, which included America’s biggest investment ever in clean energy, I’ve visited countless communities that have seen jobs come back through these kinds of initiatives.

You can learn more about all our efforts at WhiteHouse.gov/EarthDay, and also join Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, for a special online video chat tomorrow at 12:00PM EDT at WhiteHouse.gov.

Of course Earth Day is about more than just government action to protect our air, water and environment. Since the first Earth Day forty years ago countless Americans have taken action to make their local communities cleaner and healthier and to have a positive impact on our planet.

This year, President Obama is calling on all of us to pitch in and participate in the Earth Day of Service. On Serve.gov/EarthDay you can find thousands of Earth Day Service events in communities across the country.

Whether you pick up trash at a local park, plant trees, or clean up the river or stream in your hometown, there are plenty of ways to get involved. I hope you’ll join President Obama and me in celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

Sincerely,

Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States





"As we continue to tackle our environmental challenges, it’s clear that change won’t come from Washington alone. It will come from Americans across the country who take steps in their own homes and their own communities to make that change happen."

- President Barack Obama












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10 Green Giants That Could Change the World - how some big business and governments are attempting to be more green. They left out BMW, the German car company that is environmentally sensitive at their American plant.

A Brief History of Earth Day - The enduring appeal of Earth Day resonated far beyond its origins

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Five Ways to Help Save the Planet in 30 Minutes or Less - Invest half an hour to protect the environment by changing how you live each day

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Go Green With Your Morning Coffee - short video, If you start every morning with a fresh cuppa joe in your hand, then these tips are for you. Find out some simple ways you can buy, prepare, and order coffee so that it's brewed or served in an environmentally friendly way.

Celebrate Earth Day 2010 in Your Community - Just one green act this Earth Day can make a big difference

Documentary Films About the Environment and Ecology - These Documentaries Can Spark You To Become An Environmental Activist.

A Brief Chat About Climate Change - What you need to know about global warming and other disasters

Earth Day Network site

Blog post from 10000 memories of the life as a caterpillar:

Altar of the Planet - A somewhat extraterrestrial and somewhat very terrestrial view on the climate change, Earth hour and human species in general.

From Dennys Funny Quotes: Funny Earth Day Cartoons

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How Is Your Relationship With Your Inspiration Muse?

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From Denny: Today there was an online conversation with fellow poets about the subject of muses. Some had them; some didn't. All the muses seemed to be female in gender.

Several of the poets were lamenting how life's little distractions get in the way when inspiration pays an unannounced visit. They were frustrated of how many interruptions they experienced every time they tried to revisit the inspiration and write, only for that awesome inspiration to fade quickly.

We have all experienced moments like this. For creative people it's especially difficult because we can grasp the importance of what we were offered and it too quickly slipped away, seemingly elusive.

What a lot of people are unaware of, and our inspirational muses are trying to tell us, is that these moments are actually spiritual moments. The way to interact with those moments successfully is to develop a discipline of cultivating them.

Well, just how do you go about developing this discipline? When inspiration knocks on your inner door just make a mental note of where you left off when the interruption occurred so you can return to that moment. What is happening here is that it is lucid dreaming or a waking vision where your spirit is talking clearly to your waking mind - and your waking mind is aware of this conversation.





Pelikan fountain pen by David Blackwell @ flickr



A quick mental note of how you feel in the moment and maybe scribble a couple of words or phrases down on a piece of paper ( heck, the wall will do when the inspiration is fading fast - you can paint over it later). This hand-mind coordination works together to help your memory so you can regroup later and return to the inspiring moment. It's just like returning to a room you left a few moments ago.

The mind can be trained to remember your dreams, your waking visions, your inspirations. It just takes time to train yourself. Develop the structure, the obvious cues for you. For instance, always using the same pen and notebook. You could try always writing in the same place like a corner of the kitchen or your bedroom. The goal is to create familiarity and comfort which, in turn, will stimulate your memory to flow quickly and easily.

It will take a few times, maybe months, depending upon how much you practice to develop this discipline. If you practice it every day for a few minutes at the same time of day and place you will develop the habit rapidly and easily. A little bit of constant effort to create your best structure you respond well to is well worth the time to capture inspiration sublime!

As to the subject of gender for muses, well, mine has always been male. And this guy can get downright demanding and a bit of a pest at times. :) Of course, the crazy spiritual relationship with this spiritual energy is well worth it for what I've learned about the spiritual world and myself over time.

This is an amusing poem I wrote in response to a writers group recording their muses. They were all romantic and serious and my account was quite different - a bit shocking for some - for I recorded reality as I live it: always with a wry grin.







Dreaming Words



Warm



Comfortable



Drifting




Toggling between this waking world
And the world of dreams symbolic
Sheets, those delicious summer skimmers
Glide as bodies turn side to side in repose




Gently





Quietly



Softly, the growing silence
Easily falling down to fade



*Wake up!*
Comes an unwelcome startling voice
Eyes closed tight, tighter
Face grimacing a frown
*Wake up!* that voice insistent, repeats



Ascending the dark stairway of knowledge
Rubbing my inner mind’s eye
Flinging open the huge door to light
Asking an irritated *What?!*
About to fall teetering backward
Into the comforting quiet dark



*What?!*

*Write it down* he says

*Now?* comes the complaint:

*It’s the middle of the night!*



Aware it’s a losing battle
Dutifully returning to the waking world of dark
Reaching out, fingers fumbling for bedside notebook and pen
Scribbling on lines overrun from hands half asleep
Too large is the messy handwriting
Next morning tough to decipher



Words tumble down onto paper out of the inner dark
That vast library of knowledge, universal to all
Opening the heavy tall thick door
Written words enter, marching out onto now
The waking world bathed still in eerie moonlight



Fulfilled the bleary-eyed scribe’s task
Tumble backward to welcoming sleep
Covers pulled high over weary, oh, so tired, body
Descending the long narrow stairway



Down






Deeper







Arrived



The loving library of inner knowledge
Infinity to yet explore
Artifacts of knowing to drag home
And leave quietly on some welcoming doorstep




Denny Lyon
Copyright 22 June 2008
All rights reserved



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Pollen Storms poem

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From Denny: It's been a tough three weeks with all the pollen in the air around here. The worst was the tiniest pollen you couldn't see but managed to infiltrate your brain like some Nature terrorist, smother your entire body and color your car and your life entirely yellow. :) It was slowing me down so much that this week's Libations Friday poem did not get out in time. In fact I actually wrote this poem a week later to plug back in here for this segment.

What's even more funny? As I was running this poem by my husband a few minutes ago for a critical ear, he had the back door open and in drifted - and floated lazily upon the warm air - all that dandelion fuzz as if to say, "You called us? We're available!" I think pollen "treats" are the new yard cats...

To keep your sense of humor during the pollen onslaught this season, read on... :)











Pollen Storms


Thinking about those Winds of Change,
Watching them swirl furiously in the air,
Pink and yellow stinging blizzards:

Beauty.







Everything was in the wind:
Drifting cherry blossom petals,
Dropping white dogwoods to flutter:

Seductively.








Those Winds of Change scratch our skin
They tear up our eyes, stinging, itching,
The pollen blizzards swing around corners:

Assailing.







Nature is on the move this Spring.
The glaciers melted rapidly, warming the earth,
The plants ramped up pollen production:

Gleefully.







Overwhelmed temporarily,
The Winds of Change will calm,
Washing Rain will drench the land:

Bliss.










Denny Lyon
Copyright 16 April 2010
All Rights Reserved


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Photo Credits


California wind surfing by kevincole @ flickr

Dandelion fuzz furball by Martino! @ flickr

Cherry blossoms by t_a_i_s @ flickr

I Heart Pollen by brookenovak @ flickr

Dogwood blooming by hlkljgk @ flickr

Afternoon rain by Sids1 @ flickr

Singing in the Rain by 1Happysnapper (photography) @ flickr

Spring storm in Buenos Aires by Irargerich @ flickr


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What Spiritual Tests Develop Good Character And Our Talents?

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From Denny: When you were growing up how many times did adults speak to you about developing good character? And if you became a parent or a teacher, did you also teach the same? But did you ever consider just how to go about developing and honing good character - or did you just follow the rules of life hoping that was enough to accomplish the goal?

The Way to Developing Good Character

Many times people confuse knowing about what defines good character versus actually developing it. It does seem to be a bother that the intellectual mind thinks it "knows it all" once it has familiarized itself with a subject.

But the problem lies in the areas of the emotional and spiritual minds, getting them disciplined so they can act in harmony to our benefit. It's one thing to memorize the facts yet quite another to apply them.

So, how do we apply what we think we know? Just sit still long enough and a life test will come your way in short order - just keep it in the back of your mind to be ready whenever it shows up on your doorstep. It's like the Universe is listening and says, "Looks like they are ready for the test. Let's see if they pass or fail." Invariably, life tests do not appear in a neat little package labeled "Life Test, Do Not Open Until Ready."

Those tests always catch us off guard until we are engaged into the drama and we suddenly realize what vortex we just got sucked into for a twilight zone experience. The key to doing well is to keep your emotions grounded, your rational mind ready to help you reason and your spiritual mind constantly praying to pave the way as you journey through the test. Many tests last for weeks and months, some years. Those that last a long time are comprised of stages of one large test. The harsher you are tested the more responsibility will be required of you.

You can have been trying to be a good person all your life and then suddenly you get hit with some harsh experience or a series of them. Getting tested isn't about being disciplined in the way of punishment. Think of it as a final exam on what you think you already know. By the time the test is finished - and you feel like one whipped puppy ready for a long nap - you will have truly learned that information from so many angles that there is no way you will ever need notes to teach on the subject. That information will have become as familiar and easy to access as the nose on your face by the time the spiritual Universe is done with you.

Oh, and don't worry, points are not deducted for griping, fussing and cussing from time to time when you are frustrated and don't fully understand what is expected of you. You will figure it out as you go and the frustration will ease up.

In the end, the only way to truly develop good character is to engage in life in the most unexpected and unplanned situations that come your way. Don't run from the responsibility because it will just chase you down later and be a much tougher test. In fact, each test you reject gets backlogged and heaped upon you with other tests all at once for what can feel like a crushing weight.

Do your best to keep a good humor and accept each test that comes your way. What you will find is that each test builds upon the previous one to help you build your character foundation. Each test is tailored to your personality and where you are in life that very moment.

The Way to Developing Our Talents

Have you ever noticed that you may be geared to action or passivity? You might be a person who finds it easy to make decisions. Your life tests will most likely be to wait and make no big decisions for months or years at a time. That can be quite maddening to an action oriented person used to being in charge of their life - and probably the lives of others around them. It will be a testing with immense frustration and impatience until you learn to conquer your will and learn patience and trust.

If you are a person who hates to make decisions and would prefer others to make them for you - you guessed it - your life tests will be to make decisions every time you turn around, often in a rapid fire sequence that will take your breath away. You will learn how to prioritize, organize and delegate or accept as your responsibility to carry out. It will be a testing fraught with intense fear until you conquer that fear.

So, what does all this testing have to do with developing your talents? Developing your talents requires a lot of solitude. During those down times while you are resting from the flurry of life tests you will seek out time alone to refresh and regroup. As you cultivate time to think deeply you will also cultivate your innate talents naturally.

Whatever you are drawn to do during these introspective sessions will mature over time. For instance, a coping skill for the stress you are experiencing during a life test could be working on some art project. It will soothe your rattled emotions, engage your curious intellect and give some time to your spiritual mind to do some more work without interference and interruption.

I always figured as I was going through my life tests that I wanted to have something to show for all that introspective time. :) So, I have plenty of interesting art that engaged my spiritual creativity, soothing tactile needlework when my emotions were turbulent, photography to record my natural world with my current perception and recording my thoughts, often as poems, as proof I lived those moments. Along the way, my skills improved and grew richer. A win-win in my book.

The thing about spiritual life is learning balance and timing. Life tests and deep thinking time, working as a team, help us achieve a richer balanced life.


Quote

* Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Poem: Legacy of Love

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*** Never feel what you know is not important enough to share: mentor!

From Denny: This week a famous American teacher passed out of this life and into a new adventure. His name was Jaime Escalante and it was his life story told in the movie "Stand and Deliver." He was well educated and worked at NASA. Yet when he read of the failing schools in Los Angeles he quit his high-paying job and went to teach advanced math at one of those failing schools, Garfield High School. He fought the public school system's failing mindset cemented into the old ways of doing things, believing low income kids were not smart enough or motivated enough to learn advanced math. Escalante proved them all wrong: the educators who ran the schools, the parents and the students.

Escalante brought faith in his students and passion to the job of more than teaching: He was a mentor of gigantic proportions. Today, many of his students are successes, working at NASA or teaching the same calculus to their students that he taught them. Most of all he taught a group of people to believe in themselves. He taught the educators to never give up their faith and reach higher so their students can succeed in life.




Cosmic consciousness by h.koppdelaney @ flickr


Mentoring others is important no matter what stage you are living in your life. You can be young or old. You can teach the young, those older, those your same age. Teach what you know and share your life experiences. You never know who you will inspire. And, as you teach, you learn from them too. Never feel what you know is not important enough to share. Never be too proud to receive knowledge from others eager to share what they have just learned or figured out. For today's shared knowledge just might answer tomorrow's problems - for them and for you. Mentoring: it's a fair exchange, don't you think? :)




Legacy of Love






Have you ever thought about…
All the knowledge in the Universe?
Have you ever thought about…
Your place in millions of information bits?
Have you ever thought about…
Why your experiences were important?






Did you know that on the other end of that information
Lived someone waiting for you to tell them about it?
Did you know that in the world every day there is
A person sharing what they know with someone else
Who yearned for the solutions to their problems but
Did not know where to find that knowledge – until you?






The old speak of their long lives while the young listen.
The young shout their enthusiasm while the old smile.
When tough times strike we all stretch out helping hands.
When Life is sweet we lift up our hearts in shared Joy.
Kindness and sharing creates more kindness and sharing,
Giving comfort and ease to many hearts, lightening the load.





When at first we meet as strangers we become friends.
Sharing our experiences we relax into deep friendships.
Family we become when we give Love and receive Love.
Have you ever seen all the thoughts floating in the Universe
Wondering of their origins and how long they were seeking?
Sharing what you know is your legacy of Love.






Denny Lyon
Copyright 4 April 2010
All Rights Reserved


A Powerful Mentor: Remembering Jaime Escalante

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Galaxies and universes by Torley @ flickr

Cosmic consciousness by h.koppdelaney @ flickr

Fun in the rain by Nina Matthews Photography @ flickr

Looking into eternity by jasleen_kaur @ flickr

Helping hands by batega @ flickr

Artist's concept of the universe by NASA Goddard Photo and Video @ flickr

Walking into the sun by Harold Laudeus @ flickr

Your Dreams: 5 Common Characteristics

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From Denny: Dreams are an endless fascination for humanity. It's how we process our outer and inner worlds. Most times the dreams make sense to us. Then there are those highly symbolic dreams that trouble, frighten or engage us.

The curious, the artists, the psychics, the kings and queens of world governments have studied dreams and gathered around them those who could interpret their dreams. They knew their own spirits or even God was talking to them and they wanted to make sure they got the message right.

In modern society, dreams have been studied by the likes of psychiatrists like Freud, Jung and now a scientist, a sleep researcher by the name of J. Allan Hobson. In a 1988 study he identified five basic characteristics of dreams. Think of it as a simple class in dreaming to get you started on figuring out your own enigmas of self.





Intense Emotions

Emotions in dreams always seem to be excessively intense like fear, anxiety, painful and just plain wear-you-out intense. The most common dream is one of embarrassment like being found nude in public unexpectedly. Like you could plan for that one? :) Then there's the fear dream like being trapped in a seemingly impossible situation or being chased by some unknown attacker for no good reason. Of course, when the dreams are that intense you end up interrupting the dream and wake up abruptly. It's really bad when you fall back in bed too quickly and darned if that crazy dream doesn't start back up right where you left it. Annoying, isn't it?! :)

Anxiety, fear and surprise are the most commonly experienced emotions that are intensified by dreaming. That's why sleep researchers recommend taking time to wind down before you go to bed so your dreams will be calmer. Often the emotion you go to bed on is the emotion that first gets processed - which is why the admonition of not going to bed angry with anyone is good advice.





Disorganized and Illogical Dreaming

This is where the fun begins when you work on interpreting your own dreams. Discontinuities, ambiguities and inconsistency are all hallmarks of where your dreams just refuse to follow an easy plot line and easily identified theme to give you your bearings. You just don't know which end is up. It's like suddenly your magnetic compass came into contact with an excessive magnetic field and starts spinning and you are no longer able to tell which direction to go.

It can be like you entered a horror movie or at least the twilight zone between the world you once knew and now an unknown situation. Whatever the case it turns out to all be a bit bizarre and nonsensical. All the natural laws no longer apply like you are in some alternate universe where time, place and what you thought you knew about people, animals and plants does not work like in your waking world. You might experience talking animals, time travel, find yourself flying over the globe, suddenly people morph into something or someone else (creepy) and my all time favorite: you get whisked out of one setting into another so fast you can't catch your breath or your emotional balance.





Strange Dream Content is Too Easily Accepted by Your Mind

Have you ever noticed that when you wake up from one of those dreams of odd events and weird content that you are hard pressed to logically present the dream in any context that makes sense? It lets you know just how flexible is your dreaming mind to accept anything illogical or nonsensical in order to deliver the message to the dreamer. Makes you glad you can't go to the voting polls in this state, now doesn't it?! There's no telling what kind of politicians we might end up governing us. Then again, maybe that explains a lot of the crazy politics we have had for the past 25 years. Maybe there is a whole generation of sleep walking dreamers going to the polls... :)

Apparently, sleep researcher Hobson thinks that "the unquestioning acceptance of dream content is due to the strength of our internally generated emotions and perceptions." Within the dream context nothing is out of place, even if the events are strange and illogical and our perceptions or objects are not in their usual places or context. These are always the dreams that tend to have very individualized symbols unique only to the dreamer. Say, for example, a cat to you represents happy contentment because of the purring quality while to someone else a cat is feared for their intense emotions. These dreams are often the most difficult to explain because of the oddities in them and the very personalized symbols.





Bizarre Sensory Overload or Unusual Experiences

Don't you just love the one where you experience the sensation of falling? That's a common experience among all of us. It sure is a weird feeling. Some other odd sensations people experience is not being able to move quickly in your dream, like your body does not respond well for some reason that makes no sense. Or the worst experience is not being able to control your body movements and you do weird things like someone who is hypnotized to do silly things for a laugh. Definitely those are dreams about various stages of losing control in your life.


Dreams Are Difficult to Recall

How many times have you experienced those intense dreams you think you can never to forget? Then you wake up, start your day and then when asked what you dreamed about that night you end up drawing a complete blank. Talk about frustrated. Sleep researchers have found that 95% of dreams are forgotten entirely upon awakening. Apparently, our memory is intensified during dreaming, yet when we wake we lose that easy access to our dreaming content and it diminishes quite rapidly as our brain turns away from dreaming and into our waking life. I guess our brains are not happy to be multi-taskers on some situations.





Shared Experiences in Dreaming

Most of us have experienced these characteristics in our dreams. Few realize just how commonly shared are these experiences. In our dreams objects and people and situations can be found to be as naturally behaving as in our waking world. Then again they can be collages of our current reality or just plain unbelievable fantasy only a computer could recreate. Everything could march along according to existing laws of the universe or behave in the most absurd, improbable or impossible manner. What's fun about those situations is it makes it easier to record or remember the dream.





Dreams as Path to Spiritual Maturity

I look at dreaming as a fantastic spiritual source to mine for furthering our spiritual development. Often, dreaming is just processing what happened during the day. The real fun begins when you pose a question or problem that requires resolving before you go to bed and then let it rip during dream time. Keep a notebook and pen by your bed so when you wake up from time to time during the night you can jot down a few notes or key phrases to jog your memory when you fully wake.

When you do wake, before fully shaking off the proverbial cobwebs, make sure to be quiet for a moment and collect your thoughts about the dream, maybe enter it again briefly to refresh your memory of the setting, the characters, the theme and the plot line. Record your dream as best you can into your notebook. Again, later in the day, give it at least four or five hours away from the dream, revisit your notebook and write some more details as you recall them.

When you keep tabs on your dreams like this you tend to take care of business regularly and don't end up with those disturbing intense dreams. Those dreams are usually God's way of talking to your spirit to pass it on and talk to your conscious mind that you are on the wrong course in life and need a course correction.

Many times our dreams talk to us about our attitudes, our choices and our future path in life. Listen to your dreams. They are free, always available and ready to help at a moment's notice.


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Dennys Photo Gallery: Spectacular Sunrises

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From Denny: Spring is here in all its glory and this Sunday was also the celebration of Easter. We celebrate the spiritual victory over death, a recognition of the death and rebirth cycle of Nature. Many people visit sunrise services. These photos are from all over this beautiful world, from Canada to the Maldives, from the winter sunrise to the summer. A new beginning and a new day is always so beautiful and refreshingly welcome. Enjoy the view!






Maldives Palm tree sunrise by Badruddeen @ flickr






Blue moon sunrise by Lost In The RP @ flickr






Milwaukee sunrise by Indy Kethdy @ flickr






Lighthouse sunrise by Indy Kethdy @ flickr





Farm sunrise by Muffet @ flickr






Sunrise paddling on North Canadian River by FreeWine @ flickr






Winter beach sunrise by James Jordan @ flickr






Water picnic sunrise by Indy Kethdy @ flickr







Red sunrise over water by joiseyshowaa @ flickr






New Year's Sunrise by nattu @ flickr






Sunrise at Dripping Springs by FreeWine @ flickr






Sunrise at the pier by Irargerich @ flickr






Maldives sunrise and boat by Badruddeen @ flickr






Omega Sunrise by Irargerich @ flickr


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