1. The earth is your home. Keep it clean, and leave it neater than
it was when you arrived.
2. Make small footprints, but make them matter.
3. Be kind to children, animals, and the elderly.
4. Learn to listen, not just hear.
5. We are all connected, root and bone, to everything on the planet. Remember that when you cut down a tree, or a bush, or a small animal.
6. If you don't need it, don't take it.
7. Death is the final chapter. Understand that, and embrace the life you have, it's all you're going to get.
8. Give back.
9. Don't gossip.
10. Be kind to yourself. You are all you have, all you will ever have, and if you abuse the body, the heart, the mind, you have no one but yourself to answer to.
11. Be flexible. Different is not necessarily bad or wrong or evil.
12. Look at life in a two-way mirror. You're not the only one on the road, after all.
13. Find the humor. It's almost always there, somewhere.
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10. Be kind to yourself. You are all you have, all you will ever have, and if you abuse the body, the heart, the mind, you have no one but yourself to answer to.
11. Be flexible. Different is not necessarily bad or wrong or evil.
12. Look at life in a two-way mirror. You're not the only one on the road, after all.
13. Find the humor. It's almost always there, somewhere.
http://newthursday13.blogspot.com/
"13. Find the humor. It's almost always there, somewhere."
ReplyDeleteWhat's the difference between humor and odor?
Humor is a shift of wit...
Cute. =)
DeleteHadn't thought of that before, but you're right. Bless the English language with forty-'leben meanings for everything...
Amen to all, JT; BIG amen to #4.
ReplyDeleteSometimes that's the hardest one of all, isn't it.
DeleteWe wait for someone else to stop talking so we can, and never really take in what they're saying.
I have to slow down when Im talking to someone, and really pay attention. Not always easy, since I tend to remember much more slowly than I should...
13 Commandments I can strive for. Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteand thank you for reading. They seem a lot more current and gentler than the originals, in some way...=)
DeleteGreat list, and you saved the best for last.
ReplyDeleteThanks, and I think you're right.
DeleteWithout silly, what is there. My birthmother, bless her, could see the humor in almost anything. I think I inherited that from her.
This is a perfect list for walking lightly upon the Earth. But I want to travel the starry road to the Happy Hunting Ground. *cries*
ReplyDeleteawww. I like to think we get to choose our own path, our own way. Maybe we do.
DeleteThat's some very good advice. We should all heed it.
ReplyDeleteMost of it is common sense, much of it we already do, automatically. It's just nice to lay it out there in straight lines. And thank you.
DeleteI think I was about 50 before I really 'got' some of this. Everything on this planet depends on everything else, to survive. Bees, humans, animals, flowers, grasses, trees, water. It's all connected. What we do Here has an effect There and Up There and Over There too. It was a serious epiphany, damn I almost rolled in the mud and brought it home, lol.
Paul. my apologies, I somehow managed to delete your comment and didnt want you to think I had deleted it deliberately: I did manage to retrieve it from the site, and will republish it here. Apologies.
DeletePaul A. Broome:
Mittens, thank you for showing interest in my post. I am very impressed with your blog and this particular post is something very close to my heart. I walk my dog, Cody, a black lab, twice a day. I pick trash as I go. Trash that folks have thrown out their car window because they want to keep their "interior" spaces clean. How sad is that? This earth is indeed our mother and our provider. It gives us food, clothing, and shelter, and infinite mystery. Why, I often wonder, are folks so blind to all of that.
So, thank you for the great post and I look forward to more.
We had our power lines cleared this year, and while the crew did a great job, when we went down afterwards to see what they had done, we came home with soda bottles, an uneaten sandwich (really), cigarette packages, stryofoam cups, probably a trash bag worth of junk.
ReplyDeleteIt's sheer laziness, for the most part. And the sense that "one little old soda can won't hurt..."
Gotta start somewhere, might as well be with us, right?
I love these. They should be rules, not suggestions. Especially the last one.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tilly. I LIKE the way you think, lol. I guess we can make them our own rules, right down to the ground, can't we.
ReplyDeleteMy mother had a way of dismissing anything she didn't want to bother with: "well when Im gone it won't matter, someone else can take care of it..." which to me is the antithesis of almost anything in that list...
Hmm it appears like your site ate my first comment (it
ReplyDeletewas super long) so I guess I'll just sum it up what I
had written and say, I'm thoroughly enjoying your blog.
I too am an aspiring blog writer but I'm still new to the
whole thing. Do you have any recommendations for
rookie blog writers? I'd really appreciate it.
First suggestion, is to post to other people's blogs with your name and blog listed (if you have one). That way you run less of a risk of being summarily deleted.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, write about what interests YOU. It might be language, or cooking, or insightful stuff, or how to build bookcases. As long as it engages you, and you learn not to trust spell-check, other people will join you.
It takes time, and there's no telling what might take the interest of a reader.
I was just looking at the "next blog" thingy in the upper left hand quadrant, and that might be the way to go, to see what other people write about. And click on the pictures here, to see what my followers are interested in.
And good luck with it...
I love the humor, but I'm better at letting other people find it for me.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to know our strengths and weaknesses, although not everyone does--like the man who mistakenly believes he can tell jokes (and really shouldnt)
DeleteI was just thinking about that rock split in your blog post: just feet deep, eh? YOU might step over it, but I'm not sure I could. Weird, eh.