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HAPPY MUSINGS by Sally Huss

Hooray For Real Fathers! 06/17/09 (Family)
"Your potential for greatness is greater than you think"
The day of the father is soon approaching.  It is a day we honor the father or fathers in our lives.  But what are fathers?  To be a biological father is easy, but to be a real father is not.  One takes a moment to create, the other takes a lifetime. (Read full article)

If You Think You Know What Love Is, Think Again! 06/11/09 (Life)
"To expand the heart in any direction is a good thing."
Love and the heart are some of my favorite subjects.  I love to see love expressed at any opportunity and by anyone who happens to be expressing it.  I think we all are richer by the love that is released into the world by each and every one of us. (Read full article)

Could We Have a Better American Idol? 05/29/09 (Life)
"A Significant Other Is Anyone In Your Presence"
As our latest American Idol stood on stage, humbly and graciously accepting his title, he revealed his generation's Achilles Heel.  "ME and Adam (the runner-up) decided we would just..."  It went something like that.  But it's the "ME and anybody" that concerns me.  I'm old enough to know and remember that "anyone comes before ME" in a sentence or a thought. (Read full article)

Who Wants to be in Love? 05/08/09 (Life)
"Goodness matters, for goodness sake!"
Everyone wants to be in love.

I live in a little coastal village in California and work in my own gallery/studio on a quiet street, off the beaten path, yet still in the village.  Everyday people wander in an out and reveal their lives as they look through the happy things they see.  It is amazing to me to observe how many men and women seek love and the benefits they hope it will bring to their lives.  It is amazing to me to see how many people are lacking that love in their lives. (Read full article)

Forrest's Gump's Mom Was Right 04/29/09 (Life)
"Guilt is the guilty party. If it shows up, send it packing!"
I want to resurrect the place of "stupid" in our lives. More precisely, I want to raise "stupid" to a place of prominence, put it up there on a pedestal where I think it belongs.(Read full article)

Things are never the way they were 04/02/09 (Life)
"Things are never the way they were. They are simply, the way they are."
We are in a different world. Perhaps it's the same world with a different perspective. We are no longer as a country sitting on a pot of gold, leisurely indulging ourselves or following our every desire without concern. These desires might have been homes, cars, boats, travel, education for our children or grandchildren, causes to help the poor, solutions to help the sick. Now we have concerns, things to be attended to. Our priorities have changed. (Read full article)

Need money? How about a Blessing? 03/17/09 (Life)
Give a quick thought to your concerns, but a longer one to your blessings.
Well, we can't forget about our everyday life and our everyday demands and our everyday bills, but we mustn't let them consume us. Yes, a quick thought devoted to our concerns, then a plan of action, and then the best part -- thoughts about our blessings. There is no end to those. (Read full article)

Toes Are People Too 03/13/09 (Kindness)
The need to express kindness is as great as the need to receive kindness. Kindly do your part.
It was a cold, rainy day in La Jolla . Unusual, although it was winter, it was still unusual for the area. That's why I figured my son ended up coming into our art gallery one morning with a big bulky jacket on and nothing to cover his feet but sandals. He always wears sandals, as do many young people in this beach community. It's part of the dress code here. (Read full article)

Way Beyond Words is the Heart 03/04/09 (Life)
"Way beyond words is the heart. Fortunately, it's so close. "
It is now that seems to be difficult. It is now that seems to be messy. It used to be before that people thought times were difficult, but now it's now.

People are scrambling to find a safe haven. They are gathering their goods and loved ones and holding on. They are fearful of a future that is not here but pretends to be here and is forecast to be coming. (Read full article)

What is the Most Important Thing to know Right Now? 02/17/09 (Life)
"Goodness matters, for goodness sake! "
As I woke up this morning with the remnants of a mildly disturbing dream lingering in my head, I thought that it would be nice to have a perfect bedtime story to read to myself every night before dropping off to sleep. It would set things right for the mind. Naturally a prayer or two are helpful as is the practice of counting one's blessings. But I thought that a magical bedtime story would be wonderful, one that went deep into oneself and planted the perfect thoughts. (Read full article)

Want to Stop Worrying? 02/10/09 (Life)
"If worrying did some good, everything would be worth worrying about.
Worrying has become a popular pastime lately. With the economy the way it is, the job market the way it is, the housing market and the stock market the way they are worrying has become epidemic in our society. As unpleasant as it is, it is not easily gotten rid of or let go of. But it must. And to do so requires some information. (Read full article)

To Know But Not To Judge 01/23/09 (Life)
"To know, but not to judge; to love but not to keep; to be, but not be asleep is a way far better than most."
One of the kindest points of view to have is summed up in this saying. It is a motto worthy of living by. The first part -- to know -- is to understand or to be acquainted with a person. But then to know without judging, that's the trick. We are limited many times by our own experiences and tend to slap judgments on what we see. Our vision is limited. When we truly want to know, we must see clearly and that can only be done without judgment. (Read full article)

Add Some Kindness To Your Salad 01/26/09 (Kindness)
"Kindness goes a long way to making a better world. "
We are all occupied with making a better world, in one way or another. At least that's the big goal for most of us. Oftentimes we are preoccupied with things that seem to fill our days that do not seem to be making much of a head way in that direction. However, when we are doing whatever we are doing, large or small, we can include the element of kindness. It makes such a difference in our exchanges with others. And, little by little, as we dust kindness across our day, our world gets better too. (Read full article)

Be A Friend 01/12/09 (Friendship)
"To have a friend is great. To be a friend is greater."
The older you get it seems, there is more satisfaction in giving than receiving. Friendship has these two sides to it. The coin is friendship and the sides are having a friend and being a friend. Perhaps being a friend is greater. (Read full article)

What Real Wealth Looks Like 12/30/08 (Friendship)
"The accumulation of wealth looks a lot like a gathering of friends."
Better than a friend is a group of friends, the more the merrier. To gather friends is a great art. Dennis Wood is such an artist. Although Dennis has never met a stranger, he has also never met a person who was not his friend. (Read full article)

Count Your Friends, Count Your Assets 12/22/08 (Friencship)
"Your friends are your assets. Guard them well."
Friends are assets whose values are unknown. But they are assets for sure. I remember reading a story of a man of great wealth, Charles Strub who was sitting in his barber's chair in the fall of 1929 when he received a phone call telling him that the stock market had crashed and in one day he lost everything he had and had fallen into debt of over one million dollars. At that moment he realized all his money was gone. But he remembered he had friends – and he had an idea. (Read full article)

Friends are Gold 12/17/08 (Friendship)
"Golden times are those spent with golden friends."
When I look back over the years and think of the best times I have ever had, they are always times spent with golden friends. These are those friends who have weathered the test of time, who are there rain or shine, win or loose, rich or poor. They are the ones who make a day. (Read full article)

Friends are the Greatest 12/03/08 (Friendship)
"Of all the treasures in the world a friend is the greatest."
I once asked my granddaughters, ages 7 and 9, what was the most important thing in their lives. And, without hesitation they both answered, “Friends!” As they talked further, I could see that making friends was their way of creating their own world and becoming independent. Friends were not only fun and an extension of their family, a friendship was something they valued highly. They treasured their friends. (Read full article)

Love Changes Everything 12/02/08 (Love)
"Love changes everything!"
My husband of 32 years has an expression. It is: “Love changes everything.” He says it now and then when things look bleak or rough spots occur in a day.

And, it's true, love does change everything. It certainly changes our perception of things. (Read full article)

What's Up with Fear? 11/24/08 (Life)
"Fear lacks support from those who trust life."
Let's get to the bottom of this statement: Fear lacks support from those who trust life. I'm using here the word “life” for anything in your vocabulary that covers the same big, broad concept. It might be “God”, “Spirit”, “Source”, Divine Love”, “Infinite Intelligence,” etc. To me, it is just simpler for this purpose to say “life.” (Read full article)

Have What You Want 11/21/08 (Life)
"Try to do this for this and not this for that and you will get what you want in the beginning and the end."
Yes, to do this for this is the ideal. And, you might say, “That's impossible! I have results I want.” True too. But I have found that to do this for this, yields tremendous results and sometimes even better than those you might have planned on. (Read full article)

Loving Kindness, Got some? 11/12/08 (Kindness)
"Loving kindness spreads like wildfire when given a little spark."
Do not underestimate the power of loving kindness. Poor humanity, it’s not very developed as yet. We’re not far beyond our animal nature. That’s the one that is me, me, me – fearful and selfish. But our next step, I believe, is to just reach a level of “loving kindness” universally. It doesn’t seem like asking very much, but it’s what we need to do now – to operate with loving kindness in all our activities. (Read full article)

Hold the Scalpel! 10/28/08 (Life)
"You can find something beautiful anywhere you look, if you are looking for something beautiful."
I remember long ago in Psychology 101 my teacher explaining how a need or intention alerted the subconscious to bring to the forefront those things that fulfilled that need or intention. The example he gave at that time was that if you were driving along a highway and became hungry, you would continually notice restaurants along the way. Naturally, that's an easy one and one that we have all experienced. But, in the same way you can find something beautiful anywhere you look, if you are looking for something beautiful. (Read full article)

Mary Poppins was Right! 10/20/08 (Life)
"Fun is the best taskmaster!"
Mary Poppins was right! She knew that “a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down.” To her sugar meant some kind of fun. Fun is the best taskmaster! Kids know it. Teachers and parents know it. Now, to act on this knowing when it has to do with your own activities, is a good habit to have. It always comes down to attitude. No matter how you try to get around it, it is attitude that makes the difference in the doings that we have to do. (Read full article)

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