Still aiming to reach out and encourage “wellness” such as hoping that we can feel good and have strong mental and physical health.

Environment and our personal experience determine our world. ☮️&♥️

Picture from the 90’s.

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Thinking is Feeling

We can see into the day
What happens next
will go this way
If we get to have our say
it happens like this
*
Tests and bests
Work and games
Blessed with rest
Perks
No blame
for being ourselves
and striving for health
For ourselves up first
We will all feel well
*
Somehow and some way
Right now or one day
It happens like this
We can not miss
*
We can see into the hour
What happens next
takes on power
If we get to see from towers
it happens like this
*
Our view is best
Worth our name
A treasure chest
Earth
Our claim
Just for ourselves
and our people’s health
For ourselves, our world
There is more to tell
*
This vow when we pray
Right now what we say
It happens like this
We can not miss
*
It is left up to us
Stay right on target
We pierce the center
No one can argue
*
We take our share
Just what is fair
and give back
*
We are always on track
to make a difference
to make some more
We have a chance right now
and just before
*
We are drawn into the moment
What happens next
Always shows up
Then we learn and start to know lots
*
Seeing is believing
Thinking is feeling
Knowing exists
It happens like this

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Poor decisions
from inconsistent states of mind
In some ways impulsive
and so completely unkind
What is at the core?
The greatest motivation?
If it is an illness
Will health
now get in line?
For
All of our wellness
We should work to be fine
*
Aim for
the greatest net quality of life
Strained through our system
Literally
just try to be nice
Fight for our rights
and our personal heights
but consider the total
Keep it in sight
*
Moving forward
All that aside
Everything that happened
Let’s let it ride
If the illness is gone
and we are right, not wrong
We can build a better future
just get along
*
Good decisions
from more coherent states of mind
New ways are conducive
to improving the bottom line
Love is at the core
The greatest motivation
If it is a weakness
Will strength
Now turn out fine?
For
All of our success
Our best efforts combine
*
Strive for
the greatest net quality of life
Find our own system
And literally
Just try to be wise
Give thanks for our rights
Reach our personal heights
but recognize the total
Heavy or light
*
Moving forward
No where to hide
Everything that happens
Keep it on side
Now the weakness is gone
Try to right what is wrong
We can share a better present day
and still be strong

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I wrote this before hearing about evacuations due to forest fires in Vernon, where family live. Thinking of you. Stay safe and wishing for the best outcome. ♥️

… wrote this, this morning:

Here are some candid shots of recent visitors at our house, a skunk and a raccoon with three babies!

There has also been a bear in the yard recently, eating berries (left scat and squashed our bushes), and coyotes on the street, hunting. About once a year a deer family, including a nice buck come through the yard.

We are not much more than half an hour to the big city. Eagles, ravens, turkey vultures, osprey, hawks, geese, ducks, loons, seagulls and many other birds fly above. Stellar’s Jays for sure, screeching loud but beautiful.

Also a lot of plane traffic goes by. There are two local airports not including YVR but including a regional and an international within about half an hour.

I jumped out of a plane in Pitt Meadows eleven times over one season, in the mid 90’s. I wanted to be an instructor because they jump for free. The following season, I could no longer afford it (as an undergrad at the time).

I digress. One more shift before holidays. I am excited for some time off.

I have just completed more work and found out that I will be published as a coauthor again, if our research article is accepted. I have a few articles that are currently published in peer-reviewed journals in health research.

Poem today?

We are all here together. Let’s have each other’s backs.

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Heartbeat

Heartbeat of the environment
Buzzing with energy
Living our life together
Striving for harmony
Maybe dissonant as hell
Each one of us contributes
to improvement or deterioration
Or sometimes we just exist
and our impact is contained
Under the sky
Breathing, thinking, seeing, hearing
moving through days above ground
Heavenly bodies look down
Lighting the day or at night, all around
Bustling through the forest
or scuttling through the city
Satellites creep across the sky
Life is bright and life is gritty
Creatures are like stars
working every day
Moonlight shines to share the sun
Darkness flies away
A raven soars high
as human life runs
like rivers to the ocean
or as lakes with devotion
As the clouds roll past
We are reminded
How life goes slow
Or speeds up fast in a hurry
We should never worry
Heartbeat of the world
We all feel quite surely
It runs through us
and all around us
And finds us living purely

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This whole deal
is so unreal
Makes me feel
like science changes
Religion also
can make sense
Then logic rearranges
*
The whole feel
is so unreal
I can see
the media change things
Social views
can make perfect sense
Then second thoughts debate them
*
Grasping ideas
while reasoning with chaos
Reach for better ideals
with peace and calm as payoffs
*
Our whole consciousness that guides us
Automatically designs life
We get by
with what is on our mind
Take a guess
for the best
It actually defines us
**
The whole spiel
seems so unreal
It just seems
that it always changes
Their discussion
does not make sense
when they are bringing dangers
*
The whole appeal
of being real
is that we
can get through changes
This suggestion
would make more sense
when we share the precise ranges
*
Spanning ideas
while never being way off
Transparent as we feel
with each big win or day lost
*
Our whole consciousness aligns us
Automatically designs life
We get by
with what is on our mind
Just impress
what is best
what absolutely describes us
*
What identifies us
that we can share to succeed
Every day of every week?
**
The whole deal
becomes more real
makes me feel
One truth never changes
The universe
makes total sense
if we can grasp the basics
*
What identifies us?
like how we reason and feel
Just as far as our lives reach

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