Take the Test

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Source: Ed Batista

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  2. You know, I have a beautiful (inside & outside) girlfriend in sunny California who is spoiling the world of her friends weekly with similar self-created cards? Not with this kind of inspirational lists but ‘I’m going to make you feel good, if only for a moment’ cards and I couldn’t love her more, although we’ve never met in real life…. 🙂
    People who do these things, make my moment/day, they really do!

  3. btw, one of my silent vows for 2018 was to write more cards, notes, real letters with postage etc. and she was being sent one yesterday…. Makes me giddy with joy, myself!

    2. Beth, be.the.one…. start writing a note – one per week – maybe two later on, and send it to someone deserving. It really is that easy. And it gives you a heck of joy to your own heart. I am even nearly tempted to say: Do it for yourself. Sometimes it’s just something like: Hey, thought of you. Love you and OUT it goes! I also have a regular shopping account with my postal office for those overseas and ‘European countries’ stamps. They never even have them. But you probably could just use the ‘regular stamps’ for all of the USA.
      Be courageous! Sending you a smile 🙂

  6. Smiling…
    We all need the reminder.

    To the last question I’m more like Toni Morrison, “I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.”

    But I still derive meaning and make sure everyone around me sees it.

    Quote came from this,
    https://davidkanigan.com/?s=Toni+morrison&submit=Search

      1. All treasures…
        I find it so funny when I share something from your archives that you totally forgot you posted 🙂

  11. This is so NOT the list I check from each morning:
    1. Conscious and functional?
    2. Dressed?
    3. Overwhelmed with indecision? (This one holds me up for quite a while.)
    4. Capable of crossing floor without tripping, stepping in something, falling off the planet?

    I could go on, but I think you get me.

    1. Ha ha – makes me think of a dear friend’s mother whom I’d meet at the busstop and gently convince her to return to her home to change the houseshoes for something a bit more sturdy and take off the pyjama top for a jumper…. Love your list even better than the one suggested! (But I take it, you’re ‘just’ yourself, not afflicted by Alzheimer as she was. In any case, she never suffered from these shortcomings, she was as happy as a lark)

      1. I recently saw a checklist of signs your loved-one might have Alzheimers. As I’m reading it, I go, “Yep. Check. Uh hunh. Yep. Got that one too…This is so me!” So, I don’t know how in the world they’ll will actually recognize if I ever do come down with senile dementia. It won’t look demonstrably different from the me I’ve always been. Probably just more so, really.

          1. Hah. I’m secretly certain those characteristics are on a list somewhere in the DSM V manual—with a picture of a snide individual next to the diagnosis. But at least I will be in good company.

  14. Hi, David, Happy New Year! I hope it is still new and still happy.

    I like the explanation by Eddie Batista, who I’m guessing is the original poster: “To be clear, I’m not some blissed-out idealist, and I don’t walk around thinking about these things 24/7. I’m disappointed and irritated on a daily basis. But I’ve experienced enough real heartbreak to know that disappointments and irritations are fleeting sensations, and I shouldn’t let them dampen my gratitude for this existence. A list like this helps. So does a sunrise.”

    Especially the part about the sunrise.

    1. Happy New Year to you to Carolann! Good to here from you again. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Batista is the author of that wonderful quote and Father of the image above. Wonderful.

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