[Colorado-Talk] Being

Thu Dec 28 20:36:35 UTC 2023

Gail,

Well said!  

I’ll add, pay attention and love the people that love you.  It is a blessing to have family and friends  to support our challenges.

Happy New Year

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Subject: [Colorado-Talk] Being

Being

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As one of my friends used to say, "I'm being a slug today". She would explain, “I’m being lazy and not up to doing anything.” We always think we are bad if we aren't Doing something. Like just Being, isn't enough or okay. Our Western society doesn’t approve of us going inward to regroup, rejuvenate, or revitalize. Being is Being. Being present to oneself. Being present to what's going on in your mind, body, emotions, and spirit.  

At this very moment, what are your thoughts saying as you read this blog? This is ridiculous! I really shouldn't be reading this for I have so much to do! Gail is right on per usual! I should pass her words forward and get all my friends to subscribe to her blogs! 

At this very moment, what sensations are you feeling in your body? Seeing the beauty of a snowflake falling? The sound of church bells ringing? A taste of being thirsty? The smell of coffee? An itch on your knee? The warmth of a blanket on your lap or feeling the sun on your face? Is your heart beating? What? 

At this moment, how are your emotions? Happy? Angry? Sad? Joyous? If you breathe deep, inhaling and exhaling three times dropping down into your heart space, what true feelings come up? And, if feelings rise to the surface spilling from your heart center, do you allow yourself to fully feel them, and/or do you try to push them down? 

And spiritually, at this moment, how are you connected to God, divine, spirit, Jesus, Budha, etc.? Is praying, meditating, and reading something spiritual a part of your daily routine? Do you have faith? Are you at peace? Do you feel love from God/source, through you, and to others? Is joy oozing out of every pour? 

Being is living in the moment. Being is having awareness of all aspects of Self. Being is letting yesterday and tomorrow go and living right here right now! No fear, no blame, no worry, no doubts.  

As we start a new year, a new beginning, a new rebirth of ourselves, let’s start a new way of Being. Let's Be okay with ourselves. Let's Be okay with others! Let's live in the moment-relishing every thought, sensation, feeling, and experience. Let's Be our true authentic loving, peaceful joyous Selves. Let’s let go of always doing, and let’s embrace more of being content with Being. In this way, we can change the way we see and we can change the way we live. 

And, like last year, I feel called to give you my book list for 2023.  

I get a small commission from any purchases made through these affiliate links at no cost to you. Enjoy! 

Books Read 2023 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=a439c8c8c5&e=6db269d79c> Abduction: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=b6d8a8ae61&e=6db269d79c> Acceptable Risk: Cook Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=80e402b902&e=6db269d79c> All That Moves Us, a Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience: Wellons, Jay 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=ab934a14af&e=6db269d79c> The Bean Trees: Kingsoliver, Barbara 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=9e4ee3c4b7&e=6db269d79c> Blindsight: Cook, Robin; 1-13  

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=8fdd11b356&e=6db269d79c> Cell: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=7abf2f11be&e=6db269d79c> Crisis: Cook, Robin; 6-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=551e78d75a&e=6db269d79c> Coma: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=d7ef21c4e3&e=6db269d79c> Contagion: Cook, Robin; 2-13  

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=e6fb6a5f09&e=6db269d79c> Critical: Cook, Robin; 7-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=835f40baae&e=6db269d79c> Chromosome 6: Cook, Robin; 3-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=53fe632f54&e=6db269d79c> The Covenant of Water: Verghese, Abraham 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=7751fe7039&e=6db269d79c> Cure: Cook, Robin; 10-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=f957994a06&e=6db269d79c> Cutting for Stone: Verghese, Abraham 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=27b89cda84&e=6db269d79c> The Enchanted April: Von Arnim, Elizabeth 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=43acdaffb3&e=6db269d79c> Fever: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=23a8d18c5f&e=6db269d79c> The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride: Sidle, Joe 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=8f0c70c91a&e=6db269d79c> Follow My leader: Garfield, James 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=bd2fa0b4b1&e=6db269d79c> Following Atticus, forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship: Ryan, Tom 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=8cd9e4e1da&e=6db269d79c> Foreign Body: Cook, Robin; 8-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=9c73587b33&e=6db269d79c> Genesis: Cook, Robin; 12-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=8dc7d52f45&e=6db269d79c> Harmful Intent: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=77d1a74a80&e=6db269d79c> Home Again: Hannah, Kristin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=9396d40568&e=6db269d79c> I Have a Dream, the Life and Words of Martin Luther King JR: Haskins, James 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=e61945b2e1&e=6db269d79c> I Will Find You: Coben, Harlan 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=f50e1c863b&e=6db269d79c> The Impossible Thirst, From Fire to Ice, Crossing Antarctica Alone: O’Brady, Colin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=2d25c0cceb&e=6db269d79c> In Her Sights: Eddy, Patricia 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=8d2c71810e&e=6db269d79c> The Inmate: McFadden, Freida 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=e1419b0364&e=6db269d79c> Intervention: Cook, Robin; 9-13  

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=cb389b3af9&e=6db269d79c> The Last House on the Street: Chamberlain, Diane 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=5d5e94b601&e=6db269d79c> Legacy: Roberts, Nora 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=72b88076d3&e=6db269d79c> Mad Honey: Picoult, Jodi 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=08463a55fc&e=6db269d79c> Marker: Cook, Robin; 5-13  

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=fcae888a9f&e=6db269d79c> Merle’s Door, Lessons From a Freethinking Dog: Kerasote, Ted 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=09a9408a61&e=6db269d79c> Night Shift: Cook, Robin; 13-13  

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=abfa3ddcd6&e=6db269d79c> The Other Hand: Kane, Andrew 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=aa333d8001&e=6db269d79c> Pandemic: Cook, Robin; 11-13 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=d7318a38cf&e=6db269d79c> The Perfect Marriage: Rose, Jeneva 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=1a616fd470&e=6db269d79c> The Personal Librarian: Benedict, Marie 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=2b70f9438f&e=6db269d79c> The Professor, a Legal Thriller: Bailey, Robert 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=2e0408d599&e=6db269d79c> Songs of the Humpback Whale, A Novel in Five Voices: Picoult, Jodi 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=00f51dd9bc&e=6db269d79c> Tom Clancy Red Winter: Cameron, Marc 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=e21e20de22&e=6db269d79c> Toxin: Cook, Robin 

 <https://soaringintogreatness.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=82d3235cceb8b42122614553b&id=442a888814&e=6db269d79c> Vector: Cook, Robin; 4-13 

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