My present submission to JPG Magazine’s Theme: Frozen. It’s a picture I took at my parent’s farm in Abilene, KS. I love that you can see the Barn and pasture fence in the reflection!
Frozen, from a Garden’s View
You can see all of the submissions to this JPG Theme here. My favorite in this theme is The Cold Path, by Pepjin Sauer
I’m rebuilding this site, to start writing again. So if you are coming here, you may notice most of my old posts are gone. I’ll be bringing them back as necessary, but I’m really looking for a clean start.
You can look for me to be writing again regularly Feb. 1st. Between house guests and site building, I should have some semblance of my stuff together by then 
Rest assured, I’ve missed being here, I’ve missed you and I’m looking forward to being back.
These are my core beliefs for the life I lead, but as I read them, I see that they easily translate to all that I do. I may fail daily of living up to my own code of honor, but in all I do, I try to ask myself, does this match who I am and who I want to be? That started with clearly identifying exactly WHO that is, and that is where this list came from.
MY CORE BELIEFS:
- I believe honesty, above all things, is sacred. Dishonesty removes choice from other people and that is not my right. I choose to spend my life with others who share this belief
- I believe that all things are incrementally attainable
- I believe learning is as much about experience as it is about school
- I believe knowledge is elusive and no one knows everything about anything
- I believe that imagination should never be limited by what we can see, but instead be encouraged by all things we can’t see. (I believe in possibility)
- I believe that the rewards that come in the next life far outshine any trial or tribulation I choose to live in this lifetime (I believe there is more to life than what I alone experience)
- I believe that my human understanding is limited and that one day I will have all the answers to all the questions that are no longer important.
- I believe we have a debt to existence to help those less fortunate than us
- I believe history is a gift and I travel to preserve it’s value
- I believe innocence is precious and I should seek to preserve it when I find it, not destroy it.
- I believe my greatest responsibility lies in loving my children as God would love them
- I believe in using the term “God” as it is meaningful to me. To encompass an ideal of fate, of nature, of a universal consciousness, of something greater than humanity, of something I know exists but cannot and do not need to define or limit
- I believe words are the greatest gift and the greatest weapon and people should put more thought into how they use them
- I believe that pessimism and fear impede progress and that blind faith and rash action lead to failure. Practical optimism is the key to success.
- I believe in the wisdom of my parents in spite of their mistakes
- I believe every life is blessed but that I can save more by understanding than I can by passing judgement
- I believe in the beauty born in every living thing. I should look more closely for the beauty.
- I believe that there are no excuses; everything is a choice and you make it
- I believe that life is best not lived in the finding what I look for, but instead in the finding what is true. I will not search for the love I think I want, but instead allow my life to write the love story that is mine.
- I believe Love is a gift best lived as the irreplaceable moments we choose to share with another. I value my relationships to acknowledge the choice they are making to share them with me.
- I believe my experiences are a gift that I should use to help others
- I believe that no one should have to hide who they are. I should strive to be my authentic self and likewise strive to accept those in my life as who they are on the path to discovering their authentic selves.
- I believe life is more vibrant with family than without
- I believe that family has nothing to do with blood
- I believe I was meant to be shared. Body, mind, soul and spirit
