1. All you need is Love.
2. All I need is within me now.
3. Life is good.
4. Most people most of the time mostly want to mostly do mostly good.
5. Forgiving others is a gift to oneself.
6. Yesterdays are folded away; tomorrows may yet unfold; only todays matter.
7. When given a choice to be kind or to be correct, you can’t be wrong by being kind.
8. The great wisdom traditions share more similarities than differences.
9. Mothers and fathers are a crapshoot; lucky me rolled 7 twice.
10. Our purpose is to find our purpose.  To find what lights us up; to find what fuels us; to find what compels us forward; to find what bursts our cells into song and smile.
11. Stubbing toes, tripping up, falling down, coming up short; all just part of the experience.
12. Tenacity is imperative.
13. So is courage, which means it’s okay to be afraid, but you still jump out of the plane.
14. Anyone can get a first date; the trick is getting a second.
15. Category 5 hurricanes, with all their might, always succumb to blue skies. Always.
16. Nietzsche was right; life would be a mistake without music.
17. Baloo is right too. We should all “look for the, ‘uh,’ bare necessities.”
18. Some lessons never seem to stick.  For example, not to swallow water and breath at the same time.  How many times must I choke on that lesson before it sticks?
19. Time crawls in the dentist’s chair yet sprints past the youth of our children.
20. I am blessed with six magnificent adult children. Where’d the time go?
21. I asked my mother how she always remained so calm; “it’s simple,” she said. “I choose to be the eye of whatever storm must blow.”
22. It’s not about me.
23. Skinny dipping is still fun.
24. Our eyes will not see what our brain tell us is not there.
25. People are miracles; warts and all.
26. Hatred eats us alive.
27. Dylan was right. I was so much older then, and I am younger than that now.
28. I still enjoy lollipops.
29. Collect moments, not things.
30. You cannot overuse thank yous.
31. You don’t have to like people you don’t like; but you can still be pleasant.
32. What’s wrong with life is readily available; so is what is right.
33. I choose to see glasses half full.  Doesn’t make me right, just helps make my days right.
34. Every spin around the sun brings new joy, frustration, sadness, sun, rain, and growth.
35. Like plants, we are mostly growing or withering with precious little time in stasis. 
36. My parents and I still talk.
37. I am one blessedly blessed guy.
38. Deep breaths are remarkable tools in the hands of the right lungs.
39. We should be more kind when we define success; remember, baseball’s great hitters succeed about thirty percent of the time.
40. Einstein was right; it’s all relative.
41. All 8 billion of us on the planet are experts at beating ourselves up.
42. The Japanese call it tree bathing, or forest bathing (Shinrin Yoku). I call it hiking or camping.  But hiking in nature by any other name is still deeply healing.
43. Why wallow in blaming someone else when we can just move on?
44. Christ was wise.
45. Buddha was wise.
46. Muhammad was wise.
47. Confucius was wise.
48. I still prefer to follow police cars on the highway, rather than the other way around.
49. There’s a fun book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten.  My “book” is the music catalog of the Beatles.
50. Bob Dylan also taught me much.
51. Kris Kristofferson too.  He earned his Rhodes scholarship and then some.
52. Feeling good was easy when Bobby sang the blues.
53. I cannot give thanks too often.
54. I cannot forgive too often.
55. A shoulder leaned on is not a crutch.
56. Albuquerque is still the land of mañana.
57. We all could use a little mañana right now.
58. The right to pause.  This pause.  Right now.  This moment.  Is a gift to ourselves.
59. I wonder if my children work to understand me as hard as I work to understand them.
60. Sometimes I need to remind myself that mine is not the only perspective.
61. Although they may wish I cared, what others think of me is not my concern.
62. Language matters.  Why call an experience a failure when it is a lesson?  Edison succeeded with the light bulb after over 1,100 lessons of what didn’t work. We don’t say he failed 1,100 times.
63. Everyone stumbles; getting up is what matters.
64. My Uncle Joe taught me: if at first, I succeed, then I set my goals too low.
65.  I Love getting haircuts—my hair’s still growing!
66. Life flowers at its own pace. We may coach it proper diet, exercise, Love, and laughter; but we can’t tug it from the ground faster than its plan.
67. I still capitalize the word Love whenever I write it.

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