Lists

This week's Artist's Way asks for several lists -- so here goes

List 5 Childhood Accomplishments

1.  I Survived

2.  Ballet - I had real potential

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List 5 Favorite Childhood Foods

1.  Macaroni and Cheese

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List the Friends who Nurture You

1.  W____ in Seattle

2.  G____ in Pittsboro

3.  J_______ in Texas

4.  A__ in Vermont - it's great to be able to call a mother-in-law a friend

5.  B___ in California - the sister I always wanted

List five people you admire who you would feel safe praising publicly

1.  Barack Obama

2.  Oprah Winfrey

3.  Jimmy Carter

4.  My husband

5.  My daughter

List five people who are dead who you wish you had met while they were alive

1.  Benjamin Franklin -- the true American Renaissance Man

2.  Isadora Duncan

3.  Jennie Jerome Churchill

4.  Abigail Adams

5.  Zelda Fitzgerald

I think I need to work on the childhood part.  I have always recalled my childhood as happy, but looking back at the facts I'm not sure why or how.

DAILY CHECK IN

 In the News Today:  Poll Finds New Optimism on Economy Since Inauguration

 News & Events with Family and Friends:  R got an Academic Scholarship

I am Excited About:  Lincoln Lecture tomorrow

I am Concerned About:  Money

Physically I Feel:  A Bit Blah

Mentally I Feel:  Even More Blah

People/things that Brightened my Day:  E Again

What I did to Brighten someone else’s Day:   Send a note of congrats to R for Scholarship

Ideas for a Better Tomorrow:   Just keep doing the right thing

Goal Update:  Cholesterol down to 280

5 things I am Grateful For:

1. The right meds
2. That E has a job 
3. Playful kitties 
4. That the sun came out yesterday 
5. That Daddy is excited about Vegas

Today's Quote:  "It is only when people begin to shake lose from their preconceptions from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision." 

~~ Barbara Ward

Today's Meditation:  "Each day is a new beginning.  Each moment is a new opportunity to let go of all tht has trapped me in the past.  I am free.  In the present I am free."