A Bag of Bargain Books February 4, 2011
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I just got back from the Friend’s Book Sale at the Island Library with a bag full of Bargain Books:
* Repacking Your Bags ~ Lighten Your Load For the Rest of Your Life. Cover Price $15. My cost: $0.25
* When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? Cover Price $24. My cost: $1
* Buddha or Bust ~ In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All. Cover Price: $25. My cost: $0.50
* Generosity ~ A New York TImes Book Review Notable Book of the Year. Cover Price: $15. My cost: $0.25
* If Life is a Game, These are the Rules ~ Ten Rules for Being Human. Cover Price: $15.00 . My cost: $0.25
* 101 Simples Ways to be Good to Yourself. Cover Price: $15. My cost: $0.25
* The Book of Vices ~ A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales. Cover Price: $18. My cost: $0.50
Total Cover Price: $127
My Cost: $3
Moral of the Story: If you want to collect “clutter” . . . look for bargain books.
No rules. Just write!
Have you read any of these books? What did you think? Thumbs Up?
Are you a bargain hunter? What are your favorite bargains?
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries February 4, 2011
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Weekly Photo Challenges (The Daily Post) February 4, 2011
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Jeanne, Linda, Naomi, Cindy, Paula, Tammy, Shannon, Ruth, Suzicate . . .
WordPress is starting a new challenge ~ the weekly photo challenge.
This week’s theme is “Boundaries.”
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Ready . . . Aim . . . Say “Cheese” . . .
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Forward, Ho! February 4, 2011
Posted by nrhatch in Blogging, Less IS More, Mindfulness.comments closed
My hard drive died a few years ago, and I lost 15 years of financial records.
Talk about liberating! I stopped recording all that unnecessary data and realized that money comes and goes, ebbs and flows.
I also lost works-in-progress, photographs, etc.
Realizing how much stuff I had stored away on a fallible machine let me see how I clung to the past.
Instead of mourning the loss, I set about to “delete” other records cluttering up my life ~ college journals, letters, calendars, yearbooks, diaries, and other detritus that kept me tethered to the past instead of propelling me forward to the future.
Yesterday, I received an e-mail in my in-box which included the following:
Horace Traubel, biographer of Walt Whitman, once asked Whitman, “Suppose the whole damned thing went up in smoke, Walt, would you consider your life a failure?”
Whitman’s response: “Not a bit of it. No life is a failure. I have done the work. I have thrown my life into the work. My single simple life, putting it up for what it was worth, into the book — pouring it into the book. Honestly, without stint, giving the book all, all, all. Why should call it a failure? Why? Why? I don’t think a man can be so easily wrecked as that.”
When I first started blogging, Rik (Uphill Writing) reminded me to back up my posts by asking how I would feel if SLTW disappeared.
I thought about it for a moment and decided that would be the Universe’s way of saying, “It’s time to turn your attention to something else.”
The quicker we let go of “that” . . . the easier it is to grab hold of “this.”
This moment . . . the only place that happiness resides.
Forward, Ho!
Quote: It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a moment-to-moment basis. ~ Margaret Bonnano
How about you? Has clinging to the past stalled your forward momentum?
No rules. Just write!
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