I’m having a “Life Sucks” day. My fibromyalgia kicked in because I worked out too hard this week. So I am in too much pain to put clothes on today, let alone work out. I did go to the gym and take a 45 minute sauna and 20 minute hot shower. It helped some. Now I can actually sit at the computer.
My fibro/CFS induced brain fog is still intact - making it hard to think, and my back is in non-stop spasms from too many reverse crunches and back work. …

Gardens are an odd place to learn about human behavior, but I’m learning the insect world and humans interact pretty much like humans and humans do. I recently learned the most amazing thing. People only hate you and what you stand for if they perceive you or what you stand for as a threat on some level, conscious or unconscious. It has NOTHING to do with you, and everything to do with THEIR perception.
Straight guys who feel their masculinity is threatened. or that they may be gay themselves and don’t …

I’ve been working out at the gym for almost four months now. I’m curling 15 pound dumbbells for 15 repetitions, 3 sets, three times a week. I can maintain a fat-burning heart rate of 145 on the elliptical for one hour. I can peddle 12 miles on a stationary bike in 60 minutes. I can push 120 pounds on the leg sled.
When I started however I couldn’t last 5 minutes at any pace on any piece of cardio machinery. I could only push an empty sled and only …

I don’t know about you, but I’m more inspired by ordinary people doing extraordinary things than I am by professionals doing what they have a God-given gift to do. I’m impressed, amazed, astounded by the Olympic athletes and the elite in any field; but I’m INSPIRED by the ordinary man, woman or child reaching deep inside and pulling something out of the depths of their heart and soul.
Inspiration, my definition of it anyway, is that extreme feeling of having seen or being touched by the divine, or by something rare, …

Email letters with inspiration and insight hit my mailbox every day. But this one came around again for the third or fourth time in a year and I decided I really liked it, so I’m posting it here. I don’t know who the author is, but would be happy to link or whatever if anyone knows. Meanwhile, enjoy. There’s a message for all of us here. Everyone is struggling with something. Sometimes it takes a story like this to remember that:
Cheyenne
“Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father …