Looking Back

Written by Rosalyn Bronstein


Why is it that many of us have so much trouble finding joy in our lives? Often, we tend to live inrepparttar future, or conversely,repparttar 111128 past, but not inrepparttar 111129 present. We make elaborate plans for our holidays or our retirement, but what about enjoyingrepparttar 111130 moment? Smellingrepparttar 111131 fragrance of flowers,repparttar 111132 pleasure of a walk in warm brilliant sunshine, listening to sounds of rain lightly tapping on a window pane are all ways to commune with elements of nature.

Each of us can appreciaterepparttar 111133 special beauty of nature. It hasrepparttar 111134 power to stir something magical inrepparttar 111135 soul. Findingrepparttar 111136 spirit within renewsrepparttar 111137 soul. The way to discover spirit is by getting quiet and silencing allrepparttar 111138 chatter around and within us. Meditation can be a helpful tool for experiencing that internal quiet. A clear mind thinks more effectively and appreciates more completely.

Frequently, we want to share these special moments with family and friends. Good times always seem better when shared with people we care about. It’s nice to be able to capturerepparttar 111139 moment, in a photograph or a descriptive note. How comforting to look back with fondness atrepparttar 111140 experiences we’ve had, andrepparttar 111141 people who have made them so special.

Sissy's Show of Support

Written by Skye Thomas


Sissy's Show of Support

I had been fighting withrepparttar software program that I used to build my website. The software program had a bug in it and would occasionally angerrepparttar 111127 main brains of my computer. Without warning, my computer would lockrepparttar 111128 program shut and forbid me to enterrepparttar 111129 website's file. I never knew from day to day which time I savedrepparttar 111130 file and closed it would berepparttar 111131 last time I'd be able to open it. It didn't happen very often, but when it happened, it was likerepparttar 111132 file no longer existed. My computer had put an invisible prison wall around it and I was no longer allowed to enter in and work withinrepparttar 111133 file. I would have to recreaterepparttar 111134 website from scratch every time this happened.

The final straw was when I had gone in to do a major overhaul onrepparttar 111135 site and couldn't openrepparttar 111136 file. I spent two days completely rebuildingrepparttar 111137 site from scratch. I uploadedrepparttar 111138 new file ontorepparttar 111139 web. I was really proud of my new and improved website. I'd barely sleptrepparttar 111140 night before because of allrepparttar 111141 work involved. I was dead tired at 7 o'clock that night as I sent out a newsletter inviting my readers to go check it out and give me some feedback as to what they thought of allrepparttar 111142 changes I'd just made.

That's when I found out that one ofrepparttar 111143 main links was leading people intorepparttar 111144 wrong page. The result was that nobody could get torepparttar 111145 newsletters. They would not be able to sign up anymore. Okay, that's not a big deal. I just had to openrepparttar 111146 file, redirectrepparttar 111147 link, reloadrepparttar 111148 site untorepparttar 111149 web, and go to bed. It should only take about 15 minutes. With any luck, I would be in bed by 8 o'clock! The site slammed shut again! I had only finished rebuilding it an hour or so earlier! I was going to have to rebuildrepparttar 111150 site from scratch right then so that when my readers woke uprepparttar 111151 next morning they could seerepparttar 111152 site working properly. Any random web traveler stumbling upon my site would not be able to sign up for my newsletters. I couldn't tell you if I was more angry or exhausted as I began from scratch yet again.

When my thirteen year old daughter was getting ready to go to bed a few hours later, she asked me how much longer I'd be up working. I told herrepparttar 111153 truth; it was going to berepparttar 111154 wee hours ofrepparttar 111155 morning before I would be finished. She completely understood my commitment to Tomorrow's Edge and knew that I would forgo yet another night of sleep to get it up and running correctly. True to her nature, she was outraged atrepparttar 111156 unfairness ofrepparttar 111157 situation.

She volunteered to stay up with me as a show of her love and support. I told her there was really nothing she could do to help me, and that it would mean more to me if she would get a good night's sleep and then agree to baby-sit her little brother inrepparttar 111158 morning. I would really need to sleep in and it would mean so much more to me if she would get up with my two year old and keep him out of my room so that I could sleep. She insisted that she would do both.

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