Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't…everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment…to savor that time…years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.

The concern shouldn’t be whether you’re “thinking outside the box,” the focus should be actually “understanding the box that you’re in” and especially its location!

You might call them the icing on “life’s cake,” but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor everyday living. These added accents or accessories do spice up the cake. If served without, life would be rather bland!

Rituals are like electrically powered transmitters sending stimulating sparks of electric current or inspirational feelings that connect us to our inner being or soul.

More of life seems to live inside us than out. Happiness is found when you connect both of them.

Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain…your thoughts…your ideas…engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.

Having no say in the direction our leader was taking us, was just like in my cowboy days, if a cow got out of the flow of the cattle herd, my horse and I would gently remind him what direction his hoofs should be going. Now I knew how that poor cow must have felt!

Just like downing a powerful caffeine drink, “reaching out to others” pays that big “life energizer dividend!

The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.