Lots of Family Events

Advise from Dali Lama

Great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you lose don't lose the lesson.

Follow the three R's:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions

Remember not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck

Life is Easier with a Friend

One day Chao-chou fell down in the snow, and called out, "Help me up! Help me up!" A monk came and lay down beside him. Chao-chou got up and went away.
Zen Koan

Making Cookies at Christmas

Well it has been well over a month since Christmas but I have been full speed at work since the holiday. This is a photo of my grandchildren helping make the Santa Clause cookies. Max ate alot of icing, Maycee just posed for the picture, she was too small to really help.

Happy New Year

New Year means Fresh Start

Who doesn’t enjoy the promise of a fresh start or clean slate? This is why even the unbelievers in New Year’s resolutions still create those goals or agendas for the New Year. It is certainly exciting to anticipate something more or better for the coming year. It’s a healthy exercise in positive thinking. Goals may range from tangible such as decrease debt or cut out all sugar (in your dreams) to the intangible goals such as worry less, or have more fun. Since I automatically work on tangible goals on-going; I think it might be more therapeutic this year to create some of those less tangible goals, such as laugh more, be more spontaneous, and get excited about learning something new. I hope that all who read my blog have a great year and think of this year as a fresh start on a bright future.
Happy New Year!

Community Development Department

This is my work group. Really Great group of people.

Thoughts on the coming New Year or Day

Nirvana is not the blowing out of a candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
– Rabindranath Tagore