Sam Scribbler
Findhorn is the end of the world. At low tide, a mixed colony of grey and common seals bask and sing on the sands of the north shore. Atop a small rise, amongst the dunes and marram grass, stands The Old Shack, windowless and silent. Abandoned, lonely, a brooding sentinel it has become a reassuring presence on my regular achievement with the dog. It is almost a friend.
Ninfa Carpenter
How much do you value your life.
At the age 25 I thought I could do anything. What a wonderful feeling? But, as I found out that life changes on you at anytime. My marriage ending because my husband decided to start in love with another. I had a child to raise on my own. My home was sold and divorce was on it?s way. The other women wanted everything I had with my family.
How Life changes in minutes?
Rene Thompson
You?re probably familiar with the major Hawaiian islands, like Maui the big island, but did you know that there are actually many other islands in the Hawaiian islands chain? In fact, there are a total of eight that are recognized as the main islands in the Hawaiian Islands, and many other smaller uninhabited pieces of land.
Kaho’olawe is the smallest of these eight. It is located southwest of Maui and southeast of Lanai, and measures just 11 miles by 6 miles, with a total area of 44.6 square miles. It is relatively dry because it lies in the rain shadow of Maiu’s East Maui Volcano, which has an elevation of over 10,000 feet. In part beause of the demand of rainfall on Kaho’olawe, more than a quarter of the island is badly eroded.
KC Walensky
The date was June 11, 1966. I was fifteen years old. I am half finished with my Biology final exam. I had studied for this exam for a week - I needed to ‘ace’ it in order to keep my 4.0 GPA intact. It was not going to happen - well not that day anyway.
The biology teacher got called out of the room and returned with a subpoena for me. I was to be driven to the County Courthouse to arrive by 2:00PM. I had no intent what it was all about. I had never been in trouble and since I was only fifteen, I never even received a proverbial parking ticket. Despite my protests, I was escorted out of the class, place into a taxi and whisked off to the courthouse.
Nathan Scheer
Thinking positive and thinking right are two different things, thinking positive can still get you nowhere although you arrive there being mentally happier and ready to go. Positive thinking is not bad it helps us cope with the day?s events in a manner that most people would find relaxing and ordered back. Thinking positive allows ourselves a larger bandwidth of stress we can deal with before we finally crack and succumb to stimulus response.
Nathan Scheer
I want you to try something with me, close your eyes and get comfortable. relax your grappling muscles down to your toes, sense the bodies awareness of itself, pull yourself deep into that sense of body awareness feel the here and now, be present to your energy, your heart pumping to your breath and your movement of your chest.
As you continue to find yourself deep into this awareness I want you to feel as if a window on the top backpart of your head open, when it opens you find yourself above the world, looking down.
Michael Hughes
Remember when I tested the cumfy mattress in our factory, um I do. Who would have thought I would have found a crocodile in the mattress ?
The chase went on forever, I thought I had lost him but he kept reappearing, it had something to do with the cumfy mattress but I never could work out exactly what.
Angela Tyler
Mankind has always celebrated the harvest with a feast and with fellowship. A bountiful harvest meant survival and many blessings to come. Ancient civilizations have documentation that indicate celebrations were held during the harvest season apiece year. The Egyptians, Hebrews, Greeks, and Chinese are just a few people we know who held a festival apiece season when the harvest was in.
N Glover
Sometimes it only takes a split second to transform someone?s life. A moment?s distraction, a bad decision ? and a life is irrevocably changed. That nightmare scenario happened to Tom, a former Army Sergeant Major and Gulf War veteran during a simple journey one morning. Tom, a fit and active man who loved riding his motorcycle, was hit by a car attempting to turn right into a junction.
Ted Holcomb
The other night there was a full moon, the temperature was 55 degrees, and the fire pit was roaring. A group of us had just sat down to enjoy this start tradition, a fireside chat. You can imagine the scene, it was pretty cool. That is until someone asked me a question. That?s when I experienced a smack down! I couldn?t respond! When you are speechless, have no voice, aren?t healthy to talk, you get the picture, being in the dark stops you cold! It is too dark to write a note and see it, too awkward to have my portable computer with a key board. It was discouraging and a reminder of my ?limitations? of not being healthy to talk. I was not going to let that define me again. How was I going to shoehorn myself back into the main stream of life and participate in the conversation around a campfire, or any where else when I want to talk and it is dark?