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Each month of December I reflect on the past year. These are my thoughts for 2008.



We are now approaching the end of another year and with each passing day

I look back and smile. I should be feeling old but on the contrary I

feel young. While life hasn't been easy, it's been good and I'm very

thankful for that.



My children are happy and independent. The twins Samantha and Michael

are 20 and doing well in college. Sam is studding English and… Continue

Sharing what has been shared with me. This offers much to think about.



NATIVE AMERICAN CODE OF ETHICS



1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak.



2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit,

anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will

find guidance.



3. Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others to make your

path for… Continue

"Time waits for no man," goes the old saying. Yet when we think of time, we set ourselves in motion, that is to say, we set time into motion; it could be fragmented, nevertheless, it is moving. This is why we often have the impression that time is moving very fast. The more we think about it, the faster it seems to move. This article was begun several minutes ago, which is now the past, you will read it in my future, yet right now, in the present, these words are being written. It is said that… Continue

I have always considered the month of November as Remembrance month. We are reminded to reflect on the past with its success and failures, to remember holy persons both living and dead, and on our own personal projects of the past year. It is a time of inner introspection, and what better moment than when the leaves are falling, a temporal reminder that all things change, that mortality is part of the life process and that immortality belongs only to those persons and things that have passed on… Continue