May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Intentional Balanced Actions
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Try the Inner Smile Exercise
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Friday, October 3, 2025
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote! EVERY Year! In EVERY Election!
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote! EVERY Year! In EVERY Election!
And make sure all your family and friends are registered also.
In the US, Many states and localities will be holding elections for crucial offices, from Governor to school board THIS YEAR.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
[ONE in FOUR adult American citizens are not yet Registered to VOTE!
College students and other younger adults are the most likely not to be Registered.]
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, May 12, 2025
Find Your Balance
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Monday, May 5, 2025
Smile even when you feel grumpy
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Thursday, October 3, 2024
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
[ONE in FOUR adult American citizens are not yet Registered to VOTE!
College students and other younger adults are the most likely not to be Registered.]
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Intentional Action
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Inner Smile
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Register to VOTE!
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
[ONE in FOUR adult American citizens are not yet Registered to VOTE!
College students and other younger adults are the most likely not to be Registered.]
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Balance
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Thursday, May 4, 2023
It Begins with a Smile
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
VOTE Today! Election Day 2022
If there is no election today where you live, call friends and family
who live where there is an election today. Remember that ALL elections,
from school board, to state legislator to Governor are IMPORTANT.
VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!
Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon
If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further reading: You Are What You Do
Walk Your Path
Either Accept It, or Change It
True Measure of a Successful Life
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
National Voter Registration Day 2022
National Voter Registration Day is an American National Holiday celebrating our democracy, and reminding ALL citizens to register and to vote. It is celebrated each fourth Tuesday of September - in 2022, on September 20.
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Seek Balance
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Smile, Even When You Don't Feel Like It
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
VOTE Today! Election Day 2021
If there is no election today where you live, call friends and family who live where there is an election today. Remember that ALL elections, from school board, to state legislator to Governor are IMPORTANT.
VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!
Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon
If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further reading: You Are What You Do
Walk Your Path
Either Accept It, or Change It
True Measure of a Successful Life
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
National Voter Registration Day 2021
National Voter Registration Day is an American National Holiday celebrating our democracy, and reminding ALL citizens to register and to vote. It is celebrated each fourth Tuesday of September - in 2021, on September 28.
PLEASE: Register to Vote - and Vote!
Voting for the kind of America you believe in
is one of the greatest gifts you can give your grandchildren.
In many ways, our future is determined as much by local school boards and city councils as by federal officials.
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- William E. Simon
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, May 3, 2021
Find Your Balance in All Things
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Balance Service with Play
Tips for Stress-Free Living
Living in Harmony
Finding Balance in Life
A Balanced Life
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Try the Inner Smile Exercise
Although it is always better to live with conviction and enthusiasm,
some days it is better just to go through the motions than to do nothing.
Smile even when you feel grumpy.
Meditate or Pray even when you have nothing to say to God.
Cook a healthy meal even when you are tired.
Walk or exercise even when the thought doesn't excite you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense
quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
3. Set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
4. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy
Practice makes perfect - sometimes
Tending the Garden of Our Lives
Overcome Being Negative
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
VOTE Today! Election Day 2020
VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!
Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon
If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Further reading: You Are What You Do
Walk Your Path
Either Accept It, or Change It
True Measure of a Successful Life




