What Will You Do Today?

"Isaac....time to wake up.  The sun is shining."  I really like the anonymous quote, "With every rising sun, think of your life as just begun."  Every single day we have the chance to start fresh, completely new, committing to who we want to be, our best self.  How we will impact those around us in our precious moments?  Yes, it's true that our actions from the previous day, or perhaps even years past, have consequences that may linger and that we may regret.  Yet, if we can begin to make it a habit each morning to 'Let Go' and wash all this unwanted past away--it doesn't exist anymore anyway except in our mind--just as we wash our self for the brand new day, we can drop our 'Clinging' and rather focus entirely on the present moments of this very morning.  We can choose to be our best self today.  We have opportunity to do so much good for others, for our self, this very moment.  What will you do today?  What will you do now that the sun is rising?

"Hey Babe! Doesn't my hair look great long?"

I just love that Kim cuts my and our boys' hair.  Not only does she do a fantastic job of it, but she saves us tons of money in the process.  The only challenge is securing that appointment at "Kim's Boutique", meaning our upstairs, master bathroom.  Very often when I ask her to "please cut my hair", she doesn't feel like it for this or that reason.  Then when she finds she is ready, I'm not ready for this or that reason.  It seems almost like neither of us wants to give in to the other.  Kim says, "I'm the one cutting your hair for heavens sake.  Can't we do it when it's convenient for me?"  I respond, "it really doesn't take that long, does it?"  If this isn't a silly, yet great example of our attempts at 'Competing', 'Complaining', and 'Controlling', I don't know what is.  On and on we go, back and forth, week after week and my hair just continues to grow..."Doesn't my hair look great long babe?"  How is that for being 'Flexible, Playful, and Accepting'?