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- Attune to Your Heart, Mind and Body: Gift of Appreciation - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge While growing up, you faced many challenges. You tackled schoolbooks that demanded your attention to gain knowledge. Your teachers busted your butt with homework assignments. Your parents piled on chores such as mowing the lawn, washing the car, taking out the trash, ...
Views: 927(1 vote) - The Voluptuousness Of Living - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty Wooldridge“Everything is downhill from here, ‘cept what’s up…it’s all in your attitude.” Katie Lee, 95, Jerome, Arizona, singer, environmental activist. Long ago, before modern communications, before electric lights, before mobility—people wrote letters—shaping eachsentence with care, lamplight over ...
Views: 927(1 vote) - Tyranny of resistance: cubicle poster to real life - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeIn this high-speed society we created for ourselves, Americans live in traffic-congested cities with skyscrapers ejaculating into the sky. On the ground floor, humans race to catch crowded busses, packed subways and Yellow Cabs. With expressways gridlocked from dawn to dusk, people ...
Views: 922(1 vote) - A Single Thread In The Tapestry Of Life: Tuscany, Italy - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeThe mystique of bicycle travel fascinates most people. Why would anyone “endure” the pains of providing their own locomotion via pedaling rather than the comfort and speed of a car, boat, plane or train? The answer lies in the antiquity of “pedaling bliss.” It thrives in the meshing of your ...
Views: 920(1 vote) - Be Free In The Problem before You Become Free Of The Problem - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeProblems! Everybody experiences them. You might call “life challenges” your classroom for living. If you notice---every movie, play, sitcom, drama, thriller and adventure story features problems for the protagonist to face and overcome. Life deals everyone antagonists to overcome. Every ...
Views: 905(1 vote) - Coming Through the Fire: Your Road Less Traveled - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy the time you reach your senior year in high school, it dawns on you that this life offers no easy path. You discovered the only way to succeed academically or athletically: study your butt off and/or practice your sport until your body felt like a speed-bag in a boxing gym. You learned that ...
Views: 884(1 vote) - Safeguarding friendships-a way to care for you and your friend - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge It’s been said that a “best friend” constitutes a miracle of the universe. (Sharing a campfire creates magical times for friends. It adds harmony, nature and fellowship with the bonding of the flames.) During your lifetime, you attach to certain individuals who ...
Views: 882(2 votes) - Judgment: Higher Frequencies of Human Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Make your life like a mighty river of love flowing out of your heart. Such consciousness will return with a flood of friends, joy and happiness. (This metal horse represents the intricacies of life interwoven into every work of art, every human being and every ...
Views: 862(1 vote) - Three profound secrets to a happy life - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Thomas Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Through all of human ...
Views: 862(1 vote) - The Race of Life: the happiness factor - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Bhutan in Asia sets the benchmark for living a “happy” life. Its culture mandates that “happiness” holds the highest distinction in the realm of daily living. Those citizens living in that country enjoy a much slower and quieter living pace. They maintain a spiritual ...
Views: 855(1 vote) - Three methods to stop worrying - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Your mother worried if you didn’t come home on time. She fretted about the house “worried sick” that something happened to you. When you popped into the door, she said, “Where were you? I was worried to death that something happened to you.” “Hi mom,” you said. “I ...
Views: 846(1 vote) - BEAR SCARE, OR, IS MY HAIR STANDING UP FOR NO REASON? - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeAdventure is not always comfortable; however, it’s still adventure. It’s not always safe, either. Whatever it is, it beats a couch, remote control and the inane, indolent TV any day of the week. Our first canoe trip of the summer proved green trees, blushing flowers, small wild animals, ...
Views: 844(1 vote) - No ordinary moments: your epic life - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Every week in America, you read stories of amazing moments where ordinary people triumphed over failure. You may watch the “Biggest Loser” where a man or woman cut 150 pounds off his or her body to walk on stage looking fantastic in a suit or dress. Most suffered ...
Views: 834(1 vote) - Mother Nature Reaching The Edge of Silence - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeIn the corner of my office, near my computer, a white marble statue stands against a dark blue velvet cloth to create a dramatic contrast. The statue? (Beautifully sculpted Spirit Horse made out of metal junk such as spark plugs, forks, knives, spoons, springs, dinner plates, wrenches, pot ...
Views: 829(1 vote) - A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion of Intentions - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Most teens exit high school without a clue as to what path they might follow on their life journey. Most grab a job. Many get married with over half divorcing within ten years. Others rocket into college with their parents’ wallets by their sides. (Maggie Doyne ...
Views: 827(2 votes) - Mountains for Breakfast, Sunsets for Dessert, Camping for Your Dreams - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeThis year, a longtime friend asked me to go on a bicycle journey with him down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico. The journey encompassed 2,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, mountains, beaches, seabirds, whales, seals, otters, dolphins and endless beauty. It included Lewis & Clark’s Camp ...
Views: 821(1 vote) - Gossip: the devil’s radio - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Gossip remains the mainstay of social media, sewing clubs and emails worldwide. Humans love talking about someone else more than the weather. They choose rumor, tattle-tales, speculation and allegation over facts, truth and reality. Gossip may be called “The ...
Views: 816(1 vote) - Co-create your life journey - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMost people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties. By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”. From 50, they face the last third of their lives with a sense of a downhill slide. Most never lived any ...
Views: 812(1 vote) - Walking Across America for Little Children: Anna Harrington - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2014 from Frosty Wooldridge“For Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice, solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental ...
Views: 799(1 vote) - Talons in the Sky: Coiled Scales on the Ground - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeHeading eastbound on our touring bicycles across southern California, the sun set low in the sky. We looked for a campsite in the rocky terrain east of Joshua Tree National Monument. “We better find a spot soon,” Sandi said. “I’m looking, dear,” I said. Up ahead, we noticed a ...
Views: 794(1 vote) - Cloud talk—sitting on a cloud after you passed away - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge A few weeks ago, a preacher spoke about a new term that I never heard before: “Cloud talk—when you die, you elevate to heaven where you sit on a cloud. You may look down on the planet to see where you lived. You may contemplate what you did with your time on Earth. How ...
Views: 789(1 vote) - Creating solitude for your spiritual bliss - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations. At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines and ashes-in-the-mouth ...
Views: 785(1 vote) - Wildflowers in the Mist: A Backpacking Adventure in the Rocky Mountains - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty Wooldridge“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” Walt Disney ...
Views: 767(1 vote) - How to handle anyone who drives you nuts - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge If you work in a school, company, fast food joint, office or any other organization that forces you into contact with other people—you must deal with one or two characters that drive you nuts. They may be arrogant, rude, aggressive or impudent. They offer you ...
Views: 760(1 vote) - Life: Your Highest Performance of Function - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Life” charges around your body every second of every day until your last breath on Earth. Your red blood cells race through thousands of miles of arteries, capillaries and veins. Everything about you thrives toward performance and function. Blood feeds your ...
Views: 757(1 vote) - A BLANK SPACE ON A MOUNTAIN AWAITING A MARMOT’S WORDS: “WELCOME TO MY WORLD!” - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeVerdant green lodge pole pines blanket the Mount Holy Cross Wilderness region. A cobalt sky profiles rolling mountain tundra while gray rock peaks push against the universe. In the valleys, snow-fed sparkling rivers cascade over boulders, while wildlife munches, stalks or chirps its way through ...
Views: 749(1 vote) - Change your life with P.A.C.E. - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty Wooldridge“How you doin’ Jack (or Jill)?” I asked a recreation-center friend last week. “Same ole, same ole,” he said. “Come on man,” I said. “We’ve got ski season in full swing. That’s got to put a spring in your step.” “Probably so,” he said. “But I need something new to fire me up.” He ...
Views: 745(1 vote) - Learn how to dribble a football: life calls you - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such “thinking” loads the body with ...
Views: 723(1 vote) - Leap for Death or Leap for Life - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty Wooldridge“Fear holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing. It kills a small piece of us each day. It holds us to what we know and keeps us from what’s possible, and it is our worst enemy. Fear doesn’t announce itself; it’s disguised, and it’s subtle. It’s choosing the safe course; most of us feel we ...
Views: 713(1 vote) - The celestial magic of a campfire and friends - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge To sit around a campfire with a stick while you poke the glowing embers before you, may be one of the most tangible of all visible mysteries of the universe. You stare into pulsing energy that feeds your soul. Warmth comforts your sense of belonging to the wilderness. ...
Views: 700(1 vote) - Planting A Garden In Your Mind - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The words you use define your mental acuity. The thoughts you think plant seeds that grow in your mind. By engaging positive words and thriving thoughts—you propel your mind toward a bountiful harvest of daily living. Plant these ideas into your mind for a renewal of ...
Views: 695(1 vote) - Extricating yourself from the dark night of the soul - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends. You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons. While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds of instability during your ...
Views: 691(1 vote) - Forks in the road, stop signs, cul de sacs and dead ends on the highway of life - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge While taking a hike down a country road near dusk in my teens, an old farmer, plodding along with his walking stick, abruptly stopped me. His wrinkled-weathered skin did not diminish the energy in his clear blue eyes. Silver locks flowed from his wide-brimmed hat while ...
Views: 679(1 vote) - The Elusive Happiness Factor: How to discover it - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness. (Two happy guys on a bicycle tour. What makes them happy? They love to pedal their bicycles over long ...
Views: 668(1 vote) - What Dream Has Your Name on It - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMost people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties. By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”. From 50, they face the last third of their lives with a sense of a downhill slide. Most never lived any ...
Views: 613(1 vote) - You Always Command Choice in Your Life - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Many people drag the past back into the present. Others make excuses for poor choices. Still others wave personal responsibility onto circumstances. Others abandon themselves in favor of the modus operandi of their “shadow” side. When arrested for drugs in her ...
Views: 608(1 vote) - Invisible world of caring: discover your destiny - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMuch of life in every civilization revolves around money, power and status. Some youngsters enjoy instant success from their parents while others begin in poverty. Everyone learns the ways of the world by the time they reach 18. They understand the inequities, discriminations and biases. ...
Views: 569(1 vote) - The Journey Back: I Choose Me - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge My friend Fred sat down in the booth at Woody’s Pizza in downtown Golden, Colorado last fall. He represented sartorial splendor in that he wore a suit and tie with Italian shoes. I slid into the booth opposite him. (Sometimes, life chases you. You want to give up ...
Views: 569(1 vote) - Follow Your Dreams No Matter What Your Age - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2020 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, you might consider your life on this planet as an “eternity” of 80 years, give or take. You may choose any style, any path and any attitude. You may live large, average or choose a “meek” existence. It’s up to you. It’s ...
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