I can feel myself dying - one cell, one atom, one neutron at a time - and it is alright, for that is what is supposed to happen. It is the plan. It is what it is because we would not want to live in this world the way it is forever and this is the only way to progress. Sometimes I would like to hurry up and just get it over with and move on. I am not afraid of the body dying but it is very sad when the spirit is dying and I feel this happening too. There are times when I just quit thinking or feeling or caring and this brings on a sadness and feeling of hopelessness. Or perhaps it is the other way around and the hopelessness brings on the other. Feeling hopeless is when you realize that it isn't going to get any better - things are not going to change - that this really is how it is for here and now. Hope is when you have an expectation of something better.
There have been so many who I know and even love who have chosen to end their mortal lives and I understand. This happens in Utah at an alarming rate and we wonder why, but perhaps it is because we know that we don't just die forever but that there is life after death and that where we will be will be better and so that becomes something to hope for. It becomes not just an ending but a new beginning.
Hope is so important to this life along with Faith and Charity. Our greatest hope comes with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His gift of the atonement and in trying to be more like Him which means loving like Him or charity. I pray for more Faith, Hope and Charity.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Saturday, July 8, 2017
BITS AND PIECES OF THIS WEEK IN 2013
WE are thinking about our dear friends, Farley and Darla Kinchen and remembering this day we spent with them in Arkansas not long before he died of a heart attack. Farley is one of Dick's dearest and truest friends who he did so much with.... fun, work, talk, laugh. He is missed for there will never be another Farley.
A day at War Eagle Art Show
with good friends Farley and Darla Kinchen.
Giving a lecture and demonstration for Tom Hapgood in his Topography Class at U of Arkansas
Wonderful calligraphy done by masters.
This is the wonderful family photo quilt that Ranell made and family gave us for Christmas.
Love it!!!!
HA HA HA......
Perhaps there is no one viewing this very out dated forgotten blog and so it will be a safe place to express some personal thoughts and feelings.
I have been very blessed through out my life and feel gratitude as I count these blessings - but regrets, I do have a few. As I am now 78 years old I sometimes think "Is this as good as it gets??? Is this all there is???" And then I realize that "YES..... AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS!"
One thing that I regret is that there has not been more laughter in my life. Laughter seems to me to be a sign of life, joy, love, feeling good and unity and there just hasn't been very much. I have noticed people's laugh and have envied those that have a special unique laugh that you recognize as being them no matter when or where you hear it. I envy these people and have even asked some if they could teach me how to laugh like they do. My dear friend Janet Frasier has a laugh like that - and Nolene Obert - and Cathy, my dear sister-in-law - and Brandon and other Cooper boys - and our darling son Keith.
I envy families that laugh together and always enjoy being a part of this kind of joy. It really has been a rare thing to happen in our family and I do wish I could go back and somehow make it happen again and again. But how do you ever make something like this happen? I have heard people say that one thing they would want in a mate would be a good sense of humor and someone who would make them laugh. I never thought of that being a desired attribute but now I want that very thing.
Laughter is supposed to invigorate and activate your body as well as your mind and keep you feeling alive and young. I truly think that this is so. Laughter really is the Best Medicine. It releases tension, lowers anxiety, boosts the immune system, aids circulation and is a basic universal way of communicating for it is the same in any language. Contagious convulsions are anything but frivolous but best done with others and not at someone else.
Laughter builds a bonding relationship that overcomes challenges and hardships and couples that can laugh together seem to have higher levels of satisfaction in their relationships and tend to stay together longer.
So.... laughter is something that I desire for myself and my family - yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I have been very blessed through out my life and feel gratitude as I count these blessings - but regrets, I do have a few. As I am now 78 years old I sometimes think "Is this as good as it gets??? Is this all there is???" And then I realize that "YES..... AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS!"
One thing that I regret is that there has not been more laughter in my life. Laughter seems to me to be a sign of life, joy, love, feeling good and unity and there just hasn't been very much. I have noticed people's laugh and have envied those that have a special unique laugh that you recognize as being them no matter when or where you hear it. I envy these people and have even asked some if they could teach me how to laugh like they do. My dear friend Janet Frasier has a laugh like that - and Nolene Obert - and Cathy, my dear sister-in-law - and Brandon and other Cooper boys - and our darling son Keith.
I envy families that laugh together and always enjoy being a part of this kind of joy. It really has been a rare thing to happen in our family and I do wish I could go back and somehow make it happen again and again. But how do you ever make something like this happen? I have heard people say that one thing they would want in a mate would be a good sense of humor and someone who would make them laugh. I never thought of that being a desired attribute but now I want that very thing.
Laughter is supposed to invigorate and activate your body as well as your mind and keep you feeling alive and young. I truly think that this is so. Laughter really is the Best Medicine. It releases tension, lowers anxiety, boosts the immune system, aids circulation and is a basic universal way of communicating for it is the same in any language. Contagious convulsions are anything but frivolous but best done with others and not at someone else.
Laughter builds a bonding relationship that overcomes challenges and hardships and couples that can laugh together seem to have higher levels of satisfaction in their relationships and tend to stay together longer.
So.... laughter is something that I desire for myself and my family - yesterday, today and tomorrow.
HA HA HA
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