Monthly Archives: November 2011

What You Don’t Do Is As Important As What You Do

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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

-Tryon Edwards

A few months ago, I was with a group of friends having coffee and some of the women started talking about shopping and looking for sales. One of the men in the group mentioned that he had a friend who was selling all different kinds of stuff at 1/4 of the retail price. If they were interested, he would be willing to go pick some up and bring it over for them to look at. Now, I guess I don’t have to tell you that the women got very excited and practically pushed the guy out the door to get the stuff.

He came back with everything you could imagine; baby clothes, cleaning products, food, and accessories for the house… It was like being at a flea market! I couldn’t believe my eyes. Where did all this stuff come from? No one seemed to care. They just couldn’t believe they were getting such an amazing deal. Continue reading →

Letting Go of Anger and Pain

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“My wallet is gone!”

“What do you mean it is gone,”, I replied. “You probably just left it back at the apartment.

Don’t worry, I”ll get lunch.”

“No, I took it with me, I am telling you it is gone!”

“Let’s just wait to get back to the apartment, it probably dropped out of your bag before we left.”

She didn’t say a word all the way back, biting her nails, she was trying to hide her insecurity.

It was our second day since our arrival in Buenos Aires. This would have been the second consecutive time my niece was robbed. She had $10 taken from the front zipper  of her backpack in the subway the day before. Continue reading →

Is What You Know Real?

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I did not want to get off the bus. It was awful; the ground was infested with bugs that looked like big black cockroaches. We had decided to take a 2 day trip to San Agustin to visit ‘Valle de la luna’ (Moon Valley). A guide from the hostel would be meeting us at the bus station and take us to our room.

We arrived at around 11pm and as soon as we got off the bus we were surrounded by a river of cockroaches. Those things can move pretty fast, they had me dancing around trying to avoid them.

OMG! The guide was going to lead us to the hostel by foot. I ran straight back into the bus station, I was going to turn back.The next bus back to San Juan was at 1:00pm the following day. There were no taxis, nothing! The only way out was to walk through the plaza of cockroaches to get to the hostel. Continue reading →