I am currently on a path of intense self discovery. By the end of this month I hope to make some peace with my past, become closer to my God, and gain more patience with myself and my family through understanding myself more deeply.  On a more physical level I would like to get some home improvement projects finished at home.

This is an extremely easy question, my daughters.  Her smile and her giggle just makes joy bubble up from the tip of my toes to the top my head.  You would think that this phenomenom would have become less over time, but she is now 9 years old and a true smile from her still gives me joy.

I have been blessed so many time and in so many ways.  Monitarily I have had thousands of dollars of medical bills disapear, I have one sweepstakes when I desperately needed the money, but the best thing that happened to me was my daughter, she was completely unplanned and absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me. She changed my life and made me want more out of it.

Music is the most beautiful thing created by human beings.  There are some singers that the beauty of their song can bring me to tears.  Loreena Mckennit, Lauren Hill, and Sonya Taylor, just to name a few.  It isn't simply the songs they sing or the tone of their voices it is the emotion and that part of themselves that they give over into the music itself.  Music has the capacity to insight joy, sorrow, anger, and hope.  Music if the most beautiful thing ever created by a human being.

Each morning when I wake up I walk into the other room to stretch and watch the sun come up.  Then I spend some time in prayer.  I sit in the silence and it is beautiful.  20 minutes later I wake my daughter up and that is when the hectic day breaks loose, but those 2 minutes spent in mediation and silence are one of God''s greatest blessing to me and help me get through the day.  When I don't do this I am crabby LOL

Wow what a delightful question I have strong arguments for both.  It would depend on the day if I was in a practical mind set I would say a cave because the temperature is always constant, plumbing would be a lot easier, (At least there is generally water in a cave somewhere) and you are definitely protected from the elements) but today I am not it a practical mindset. LOL

So I choose a tree-house.  From a tree-house you could have the most amazing views, with a sunset to relax you in the evening and the moon and stars to sing you to sleep.  You would have the beauty of the sunrise to wake you in the morning and the breeze through the leaves to sent your rooms.  In a tree house you can choose who you let climb into your little world and if you build high enough you can hide your existence and have a meditative retreat.  A tree-house is a bright and magical place.

Wings
 Now that's a tree-house

Ashamed of us.  I am frustrated with the American people.  My people.  We had a horrendously tragic act perpetrated against us (whether by our own government or by evil men from abroad) it doesn't matter, but we had such patriotism the months after and then we let it die.  We fell so quickly back into our complacent only think about ourselves mentality.  Shortly after 9/11 we had a sense of community responsibility, we cared about our neighbors and prayed for those who serve and protect us.  6 short years later, have you thought or prayed for our fire and police men and women, our soldiers, other than to bemoan the fact that they are overseas????  Is your flag still flying, have you volunteered to help those in need this year, hell did you even vote in your last local election???? Statistics say not.

September was a tragic wake up call and the majority of us didn't even really hear it.

I liked the bars because I liked Cherry drops.  You know where you hang upside down by your knees and flip yourself off?  I was more into climbing trees then the jungle gym though.  LOL

When I was confronted by the Holy Spirit for relying to much on myself and all the mistakes I have made by being so focused on myself.  I can honestly say I was seriously humbled that day and it made me change the way I think about life and my relationships.  It is not money and security that I want to leave behind anymore as much as I want to leave love and a sense of peace behind to everyone I meet.

I am proud of my character.  I have made hard choices that have served to limit my ability to achieve some accomplishments because I couldn't live with the damage another choice would have caused my character.  I have stood up for truth and honesty in my corporate affairs when my employers were actively choosing another path. For this I was let go or we mutually agreed to my resignation.  However you would like to put it I did receive 6 months severance.  However this has caused issues with future employment.  I am still proud of my decision.   I could have made a lot more money, but I would have been unable to sleep at night, knowing that I was allowing other companies and individuals to be victims of fraud. 

My character will stand the test of time and will be a witness to my children, and accomplishments disappear overtime, being of good character can change the world one act at a time.

Just my friends in general.  My life is very busy with being a single parent, working full-time, going to school part-time and some minor volunteering that I rarely get to see my friends.  The majority of which are married and don't truly understand me or my situation as much as we used too.  They have someone else there to watch their child when they wish to go out, I don't have that built in babysitter, on top of having a very limited amount of time to begin with.  I truly miss my friends.

I want to leave as much behind for my daughter as I can.  I will not sacrifice her happiness and security today to do it, but I do hope to leave her at least a home that is already paid off and some spending money.  I want her to have a step up and have the monetary ability to fulfill her dreams.  She is an incredible, loving and giving person.  I would like to give her the ability to continue to give with out holding back.  My daughter and I were at church this weekend and she was so tired she kept falling asleep. (she's 9 and it was a slumber party). This other little girl was sitting in front of us and kept looking at the bracelets on her wrists. (gifts that she received at the party that she really liked)  My daughter without a second thought, took them off her wrist and handed this little girl all of them.  I told her (and I am ashamed of myself) you don't have to give her all of them.  My daughter just looked at me, smiled and said, "It made her happy, so I'm happy."  This was a complete stranger.  She does stuff like this all the time.  I want her to have the ability to do this always.  She is a light to me and to those around her.  I want to give her the fuel to continue to be that light.

Absolutely.  I may forget from time to time, but happiness is definetly a choice.  You always have control over your perspective and thus you can choose to be happy.  I am a single mom that often struggles.  I could look at this situation and turn myself into a victim, feel sorry for myself, and bitter towards the world.  Instead I choose to think of this as a growing opportunity, and that I am free to raise my daughter as I see fit with only minimal interferrence from others. A lot  of people thought Shakespeare is way to heavy for a 6 year old, but that is when I started taking my daughter to plays.  She love A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Happiness is a state of mind.  People just need to remember if you can dream it you can achieve it and that for the most part the same applies to your emotiongs.  If you don't like your life, change your mind.  Attitude is everything.

That is a truly interesting question.  As long as you get to keep on learning and growing in heaven, I think I would prefer to go to heaven.  The idea of reincarnation is fantastic because it is like the perpetual second chance.  You get to try again and do things "right", but nothing is ever the same.  If heaven is truly heaven I believe that we would have the ability to do and be anything our heart desires and that we would continue to have the ability to learn, grow  and love.  So heaven for me even though part of me feels like it is a copout.  Part of me would want to return to try to help others. It is a more difficult decision than I would have thought it to be.

I have had a lot of dreams come true, but a lot of them were quite painful.  A lot of times my dreams contain warnings and if I do not pay attention they come to pass.  Happily in the past 3 years I have learned to pay attention so have managed to side step a lot of pain.