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- Oracle of the soul: discovering gems of understanding - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeAs you grew up, you experienced different lessons along your life-path. You discovered a hot stove hurt when you touched it. A candle flame caused pain when you passed your finger over it. A rosebush thorn made your finger bleed. A bee sting caused you terrible agony. From those ...
Views: 1362(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: 686(1 vote) - Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeToo often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future. They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an ounce of common sense or rational thought process, ...
Views: 1055(1 vote) - Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeToo often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future. They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an ounce of common sense or rational thought process, ...
Views: 1042(1 vote) - Salvaging Our Plastic Oceans: Angela Haseltine Pozzi - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody ...
Views: 1677(1 vote) - Societal Exhaustion in Our High Speed World: Slow It Down - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge You live in a high speed, high stress society. Everything ramps you up to meet deadlines, reach class on time and excel at work. You face texting, emails and Smart Phone recordings. If you’re a parent, you must take the kids to soccer practice, swim meets and sports ...
Views: 938(1 vote) - Speak Up About Something: Courage To Create Good In The World - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeHenry David Thoreau said, “The masses of men (and women) live lives of quiet desperation.” That equates to the fact that most people lack the courage or incentive to get involved with the great events of life within their communities, states or nations. When you attended high school or ...
Views: 1480(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: 780(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: 693(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: 659(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: 561(1 vote) - The Point Of True Beginning: Your Perfection - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBack in the 1880s while living as a sawyer in Yosemite National Park, America’s first ecologist, John Muir, lived face to face with nature. He climbed into the High Sierras throughout his life. He summited mountains, fished in clear streams and discovered deep secrets of Earth’s eternal ...
Views: 982(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: 846(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: 915(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: 836(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: 857(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: 916(1 vote) - Unleash the Daring Dance Within You - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Sometimes in life, no matter your stature, success, sartorial dress, rich or modest home, friends and magnificent job—you may come to a point of getting down on yourself. If you live by modest means or in poverty, you may come to the conclusion that your life sucks all ...
Views: 1474(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: 793(1 vote) - What Do You Do With Despair? - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeOn your life journey, different events take hold of you whether you like it or not. One day you can be riding high; and the next, you feel lower than a well-digger’s rear end at the bottom of a mineshaft. Life doesn’t care about your looks, brains, wealth, status or age. Life treats you ...
Views: 1019(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: 607(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: 757(1 vote) - You Against Yourself: Which Wolf Wins? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge At one point in history, President Thomas Jefferson faced a national crisis. He said, “We have a wolf by the ears; he’s too dangerous to keep and he’s even more dangerous if we let him go.” Jefferson also spoke about his own battles within himself. You may find ...
Views: 1072(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: 602(1 vote) - You Can Do That: The Key to Your Life’s Successful Path - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself? Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out? Welcome to the human race! When I grew up, my ...
Views: 1000(1 vote) - Your Brain: Where Ideas Consummate Sex - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeCreativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex union of egg and creative energy. What mental soil allows you to become a songwriter, poet, artist or inventor? Why do some of us “pop” with ideas while ...
Views: 1046(1 vote) - Your Destiny Sings In Your Ears At the Darnedest Times - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeEach time I stand up in front of an audience, I invite every person in the room to accept himself or herself unconditionally. “You are a one time miracle of the universe,” I boldly state. “Accept your height, weight, build, looks, hair, personality, mind, spirit and, well, everything about ...
Views: 983(1 vote) - Your Dream of Giving Two Weeks Notice - by Submitted on May 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Do you like your work? Do you get a kick out of reaching the “office” daily as a park ranger, chef, teacher, truck driver, fireman, manager, waitress or hairdresser? Note this fact: what you do daily in your life affects your mind, body and spirit. If you love your ...
Views: 2008(1 vote) - Your Inner Life Elevates Your Outer Life - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Back in our college years, my younger brother cut himself shaving one morning. He bled all over the washbasin. Blood ran down his neck and into the drain. (Everyone hits some “deep” snow on their journey through life. You can choose to get stuck in it or keep ...
Views: 945(1 vote) - Your Invitation to a Great Life - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge In recent weeks, my son Trevor quit his well-paying pharmacy tech job in Denver, Colorado for a “room and board” position in a quiet village in the Austrian Alps. He sickened of his role in filling drug prescriptions for people addicted to poor health, synthetic ...
Views: 985(1 vote) - Your Subconscious Mind Works 24/7: Harness It - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Have you ever wondered where songwriters, poets, sculptors and artists come up with new ideas? How do inventors create concepts that morph into Smart Phones, miniature drones and ocean liners? Who dreams up a screenplay for a movie or the design for a new ...
Views: 1194(1 vote) - Difference Between An Average Life Vs. A Spectacular Life - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeDo you work a nine to five disinteresting job? Do you watch four hours of television everyday after work? Are your weekends filled with powerboats, beer and grilled ribs? Do you lust for the thrill of the NFL season? Will you be remembered for contributing something significant to the world? ...
Views: 1057(2 votes) - 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: 818(2 votes) - Boyan Slat: Cleaning up 300 million tons of ocean plastic - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Once there was the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, and now we are in the middle of the Plastic Age,” said teenager Boyan Slat. “Ever year, we produce 300 million tons of plastic. Much of it reaches our oceans.” At 16 years of age, Boyan Slat scuba dived off Greece ...
Views: 1338(2 votes) - Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up the Mississippi River one piece at a time - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The Mississippi River sweeps millions of bottles, cans, tires, oil, plastic bags and containers, along with junk of every description, and chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico 24/7. From Minnesota where it starts as a six foot wide, 15 inches deep stream, it travels 2,552 ...
Views: 1033(2 votes) - It Happened To Elvis Presley: Infidelity & Betrayal - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeOver the years, one of my friends married a beautiful woman and fathered two boys. He shared his pride with me as they grew to become men. I watched their pictures fill the entire front of his refrigerator. His boys adorned the walls of the living room and his office. Both boys graduated ...
Views: 1548(2 votes) - 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: 872(2 votes) - Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeHow do ideas strike you? When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex capturing of creative energy. ...
Views: 1139(2 votes) - Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeHow do ideas strike you? When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex capturing of creative energy. ...
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