Crappy Airport Food?

Nope, a restaurant in the San Jose airport broke the rule. There, waiting for my plane with time to spare I treated myself to dinner in their restaurant.

 I had the best salmon salad of my life.

 We get used to the mundane, to things watered down, to people cutting corners, and yet sometimes we run into a person, a situation, or a product that stands out.

 Wow.

 Let’s have more wows. 

Here’s a wow: I ran  into a travel blogger I love. She is Caz Makepeace of YTraveblog, a mother of two little girls, who with her husband, Craig, and their children travel full-time. 

Both Caz and Craig write their blog, give travel tips, sell courses, and live the life many a wandering soul dreams of. (Yeah, I just broke a grammatical rule.) Their life has not been without struggle, exhaustion and, once upon a time financial ruin, but Caz and Craig Makepeace have come out the other side victorious. 

 Don’t you love it when someone is living their dream while also contributing to the lives of others?

“From my introspection and dot connection,”writes Caz, “I learned that life is always guiding us to the right experiences.”

 It doesn’t always seem that way does it? 

 It is easy to praise life when everything is going great, when the world sings its song of life, the birds join in, everything is working, However, when chaos hits, when life struggles dominate, when bills stack up, the car goes on a rampage, medical bills plague us, it is easy to fall into a tar pit of despair.

That ‘s when we need the up-lifters such as Caz. 

 Or Marie Folio on Marie’s TV. 

Marie is a Video blogger, another up-lifter. It doesn’t hurt that she is also beautiful. She says she doubts herself at times or runs into a stall with her writing. Still, Marie emphatically states that we need to hear YOUR voice. 

 If you think you have nothing to say, you’re wrong. You have unique perspective, so share it.

 I have taken her words to heart when I wonder if the world needs another blogger (me). I have been writing this blog Wish on White Horses for some time. It’s my flagship. Wishing on White Horses is the dreaming part of life. 

First, you dream, or wish. then you take action.  My other blog Travels With Jo, travelswithjo.com explains more what I am doing here and how you are traveling with Jo. Sometimes the content is the same for I figure it has a different audience. (Besides the world says I need WordPress, yeah if you can figure out how to work the darn thing.)

Maybe we ought to go into more action on that blog.

I love to travel, and if you come along it would be twice the love. 

Traveling is an expanding, life-enriching experience, therefore writing a travel blog—without knowing the plethora that are out there, seemed a perfect match for me. 

However, I don’t travel much anymore. Maybe I could call myself an armchair travel blogger. 

This summer, though, one minute I said I didn’t travel much anymore,  the next minute I flew off to San Jose to attend a Tony Robbins seminar.


Be careful what you say. Those words might come back to bite you on the butt.

And during the summer my husband and I took short trips around our home state of Oregon. 

We traveled South down the coast to visit sand dune country. We went North up the coast, visited my favorite quaint little town of Cannon Beach, met our kids at Yachats where the ocean crashed against the rocky shore, and ghost-like sea foam rolled in as though someone had poured in an entire box of soap into the washing machine, then left the lid open. 

 (I learned from a reader after we visited Yachats that many believe it to be haunted. It was built over a Native American Burial ground, and with a terrible history of displacing its native inhabits) 

In writing a “travel” blog I realize that while I might not leave my desk chair, we are still traveling through life, in mind, spirit, and dreams.

“I have complete faith in the journey,” wrote Caz Makepeace. “I know if I show up every day for my dreams if I have kind intentions, and a solid commitment, life will work in my favor and the Universe will rush halfway to help me.”

 Or, how about this? 

"Your expanded self is driving the bus, you can’t make a mistake, mess anything up, or blow it. You just trust your Expanded Self and flow with what you feel inspired or motivated to do, moment to moment.”

                      -- Robert Scheinfeld, Busting Loose from the Money Game,

“Why do I care if I make a fool out of myself? It’s called living, and while we are yet alive shouldn’t we do things that living people do? So embrace your inner idiot.”

--Don Hahn, Brain Storm

Coloring Outside the Lines

(Photograph of the Epigraph to Suzanne Somer's book, Two's Company.A Fifty-Year Romance with Lessons Learned in Love, Life & Business.)

Rob Brezsy writes “Free Will Astrology” for the Eugene Weekly.

Now don’t go running off because I mentioned Astrology—I have a point to make here.

Rob writes that when he began writing Astrology copy, his editor told him to “Always go for the big three, Romance, Money and Power.”

After a few months, his editor noticed that Rob wasn’t following his advice. The editor would have fired him, but he couldn’t find a replacement whose spelling and grammar were as good as Robs.

Rob was writing about how to cultivate psychological health and nourish spiritual aspirations more than the big three.

Imagine.

And it worked.

Just think, perhaps psychological health and spiritual aspirations could just possibly bring the results we are craving, or else we would be so happy it wouldn’t matter.

Don’t you just love it when somebody colors outside the lines?

This question was on an #IQ test given to an eight-year-old-girl: “Which plant needs the less water? There was a picture of a flowering plant, a cactus, and ahead of lettuce. The girl chose the lettuce.

Her answer was marked wrong.

When asked why she chose the lettuce she said, “Well, the two plants are growing in a pot, and need water. The lettuce is cut. It isn’t growing. It doesn’t need water.”

I love it.

Yesterday I was reading how to write a bio for a blog. The first example was a bio that went something like this:

Hi, I’m Jane and I have a passion for bird watching, calligraphy and long walks in the forest…

It doesn’t say what she is offering, but it makes her personable.

The writing guru suggested something more like this:

Jane Doe’s books on beating social anxiety have won her international acclaim. She has been featured as an expert on Psychology Today, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Good Morning America.

NO-OO-O.  Not another one!

For me this is a case of liking the before bio better than the after. The bio is about Jane . She wrote it; she was describing herself. I like Jane.

Writing in third person doesn’ t fool anyone. They know she wrote it.

Do you think, though, maybe, just maybe, I am listening to a different drummer?

Oh yes, and the other day my daughter came home and said, “People have lost their common sense.” She was working with mentally challenged people, and said, that they couldn’t even apply chapstick to a person’s lips without a doctor’s consent.

Auggh!

Don’t you sometimes wonder how we humans manage to get along with each other?

While most peoples agree on certain issues regarding society, in that they want a crime-free neighborhood, to feel safe in the streets, have their children to grow up sane and sober, those sorts of things, people have different views on how those things should be carried out.

For example, Some people see things as they are, while others see things as they SHOULD be. It is good to hold positive views,  but this is what I mean:

Harder prison terms SHOULD deter criminals, but they don’t.

Making drugs illegal SHOULD stop drug use. But it doesn’t.

Killing terrorists SHOULD stop terrorists. But it doesn’t.

Teaching kids to stay abstinent until marriage SHOULD reduce unwanted pregnancies. But it doesn’t.

Some people believe that people should take care of themselves. But some don’t or can’t. And never will.

“Well,”says the SHOULD person, “why should I have to pay for them?!”

It doesn’t matter. You will anyway.

(This information was motivated by a Quara question answered by Mike Rightmire, a Molecular Biotechnologist specializing in molecular models and scientific computing. Look him up; he’s brilliant.)

Remember old Copernicus who said the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system?

Noted scientists of the day made loopy orbits trying to place a scientific fact (the sun is the center of the solar system) into a personal model. (The earth is the center.)

And sometimes our society too, draws loopy orbits, as did Copernicus’s opponents, trying to fit scientific fact into their model.