The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find.  It isn’t waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a [...]

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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Today, because I am grateful for morning, you get a bonus quote.

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.  No [...]

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.  ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
Yes, I am still grateful for my job at Starbucks.
Most people hate their jobs, but I honestly love mine.  Is it what I will choose to do for the rest of m life?  No, this is but just one stop [...]

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.  ~Kimberly Johnson
I am grateful this morning that I can choose not only how I react to life, but how I can affect others’ lives too.  Although I am not responsible for other people’s happiness, I am responsible for how I interact with them.
I am learning that thoughts, [...]

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. — Epicurus
I don’t know what took me so long to realize how wealthy I truly was, when I look around at all the things that bring me joy, I am truly grateful for the joy I have in my life.
A poor man looks into [...]

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
There is a difference to think that you might have a book in you, and to actually write one.  I completed my outline for my new book, along with a rough draft of the first chapter, [...]

If you’re being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Author Unknown
I am grateful for perspective, it allows me to see the hidden blessings, and lessons in all that happens in my life.
I was having a conversation with my father last night, and [...]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  ~Berthold Auerbach
Music is such an important part of my life, it helps me to raise my vibrational level, when I need a positive boost.  It helps me to keep me pointed forward, and moving along my path, it helps to keep me in [...]

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston
I approach every day with a challenge, find someone who needs it, and make them laugh.  I do this for two reasons, one its just good karma, two, it keeps me on my creative [...]

Eddie my brother, Michele my sister, me, and my mother Diana Louise Ferguson, circa 1967

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Today I am grateful for my mother.
I am a mama’s boy, growing up my father was a busy man with his own carpet [...]