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Yup, I know hard to believe a post that may be less than thousands of words from me….it has been an emotional week. Sometimes I hate my job, when I see what the big banks can do to small people. Foreclosure sucks! In a moment many of us are just one step away from a life changing disaster. Hold onto and love the ones you have!  I think we all intend to be successful or responsible as we grow up. Or, maybe some of us don’t think about the intention in our lives and get stuck in a vortex of missed opportunities, or not so great decisions?   I find interacting with people who are angry, petty or inflexible, exhausting. My intent is to let go of pre-conceived ideas of why they may be this way, and just listen. I don't know if they hear the intent in the tightness of their words, but my intent can to be try to understand.  This week I was inspired to remember kindness and intention, by someone I have not met. We will meet and I feel I already know them. Stuff doesn’t

I read this quote later in the day, after I wrote this post...kind of sums it up for me :) ~ I am in competition with no one. I run my own race. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone, in any way, shape or form. I just aim to improve, to be better that I was before. That’s me and I am free. — Unknown ~ Are we poor, if we have nothing, but we have happiness? Wealth does not guarantee happiness, and it is not permanent-but does it help us to be happy? Or, is it a tool to reach goals? Are goals counter-productive to happiness? Or, are goals healthy as a way to push towards the path of new wisdom? Or are they unhealthy, if goals focus on, or are influenced by external sources-like wealth or status? If setting goals makes us happy as a tangible path, are they counter-productive, if they require external ratings or value?   Hmnnn….what does dogtraining sort of have to do with the Second Noble Truth in Buddhism? When we are aware and work towards wisdom, w