{"id":939,"date":"2014-07-15T15:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=939"},"modified":"2014-07-15T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:38:30","slug":"must-cultivate-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/must-cultivate-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"WE MUST Cultivate the GARDEN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Cultivate Peace,”\u00a0\u00a9 Frau Kolb 2013<\/h6>\n

I often find myself thinking of this line “WE must cultivate our Garden,” Voltaire’s Candide’s verdict, at the end of the skinny little, up and down, adventure-novella.<\/p>\n

My understanding of the quote is that WE can and must actively create the living vision of PEACE and ABUNDANCE we yearn for in some by-gone golden age or futuristic utopia. \u00a0 Few of us live in daily bliss of our own construction. \u00a0Yet, I insist that it is possible to be HAPPY with LIFE\u00a0most of the time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

YES! Friends!\u00a0 It is true.\u00a0 You can be HAPPY!\u00a0 YES!\u00a0 YOU!!!!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The key<\/strong>: apply \u201cThe Vacation Approach.\u201d\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 NOW. \u00a0“What?” \u201cHOW?\u201d<\/p>\n

YOU ask.<\/p>\n

Here is the abridged version: 1. Appreciate that every obstacle is a miracle waiting to unfold. \u00a02. Laugh.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 NOW, practice laughing every day, make time for laughter.\u00a0 Prioritize it.\u00a0 SO: Hah!\u00a0 HAH! HAH!\u00a0 HAH! HAH! HAH!\u00a0 That is how WE do it.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 3.\u00a0 Limit your intake.\u00a0 You are what you watch.\u00a0 You are what you read.\u00a0 You are what you eat.\u00a0 Think about it. \u00a0Your life is a garden.\u00a0 YOU decide what you grow. \u00a0 Weeds? \u00a0Pluck ’em or smoke ’em or eat ’em. \u00a0You decide. \u00a0It is your world. \u00a0In this vein, your home is your sanctuary.\u00a0 (I don\u2019t care IF you live under the bridge, you can experience bliss at home by INTENDING it. \u00a0Start by turning off the horror the horror THE NEWS and allowing yourself to listen to your own breath. \u00a0 Inhale. \u00a0Exhale. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0See THAT! \u00a0You are a miracle! \u00a0You breath! (Don’t allow the dirty river of television to stream uninterrupted into your house with bad ideas and BS images of food and weight or diet plans.) \u00a0Simply be selective what you put into your body. \u00a0Porn. \u00a0Junk Food. \u00a0All of it debilitates YOU! \u00a0Choose: healthy (organic is best) food. \u00a0Beautiful harmonious images can make you feel better about the world (make time for nature) in art and LIFE: one place where you can get the extra special GOOD healing viewing is at the\u00a0Frick Museum in NYC<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0Rothko Room<\/a>\u00a0at the London Tate, in LA we have the beach and mountains as a source of comfort, healing, and rejuvenation. \u00a0ART here, I think fills the gap of needed mental excersize, for some. \u00a04. Pick your friends\/travel companions\/crew, first mates, and officers wisely, actively. \u00a0Terminate relationships that don’t work FAST! \u00a0IF you have a captain other than yourself be sure that person will go down with the ship (YOU) IF needed.\u00a0 Dump the assholes.\u00a0 Cut.\u00a0 Prune.\u00a0 KEEP IT TIGHT! 5.\u00a0 Focus on what you want MORE of\u2026 in order to create peace in the world you must experience it daily, \u00a0spend time alone, pray, paint, draw from within yourself and find the infinite power of creative activity and focusing on our preferred activities of service and LOVE. \u00a0Thus we cultivate prosperity, celebrate wealth, create a sumptuous feast of JOY for our many loving friends, COOK!\u00a0 EAT! \u00a0YES! \u00a0Remember: celebrating LIFE is a skill and the more that you do it the better you get at it. \u00a06. Volunteer. \u00a0Give back to the community. \u00a0I garden. \u00a0I touch DIRT!\u00a0 Find a way.\u00a0 Do it everyday and encourage others to PICK UP TRASH and take their own bags to the super market. \u00a0IF we ALL made these choices the entire planet would be a beautiful garden with healthy, happy, well fed people EVERYWHERE (That is my wish for the planet. \u00a0I see it clearly. \u00a0I see a world where EVERY HUMAN has everything they need and MORE. I write this truth here and thus this possibility is one step closer to be the absolute truth of human experience, to which I believe we are headed, despite our mis-steps and blunders along the way to paradise.) \u00a0 Think about how the water keeps the plant alive and the SUNLIGHT how it caress the leaves and brings out the best in them. Let that dazzling truth soak into your soul. \u00a0Allow yourself time to heal. \u00a0 REST in the garden, as you WORK in the garden of your LIFE cultivating peace today and everyday, make time for small rituals of rejuvenation and beauty, like those provided by the one and only\u00a0Nite Spa<\/a>\u00a0in Venice Beach California.\u00a0 Save your own LIFE. \u00a0Don’t forget to get out there and grow some organic lettuce, tomatoes, and yummy dark green kale!\u00a0 & last butt not least: APPLY The SEVEN BOOK RULE!<\/p>\n

\u00a0THE SEVEN BOOK RULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Seven Book RULE is the secret to my abundance of LOVE and desire to LIVE it UP!\u00a0 I am the original BON VIVANT!\u00a0 I thrive in wine bars, dancing, kissing, romancing, flirting, to music! \u00a0I live in BACCHIC Splendor! \u00a0I am AFRO LATINA.\u00a0 My parents come from Dominican Republic and Spanish is my first LANGUAGE (don\u2019t forget it).\u00a0 I am a first generation American.\u00a0 I had the good fortune to be well raised by caring, intelligent, and educated parents.\u00a0 My father was an attorney in Dominican Republic when he met my mother.\u00a0 My mother comes from an illustrious Dominican Family.\u00a0 History book\u2026 people of wealth and class\u2026 yet, her grandfather gambled away not one, not two butt three inheritances\u2026 I ran away from home at 17 not because my parents were horrible people butt because I was adventure ready.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had a BLAST!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still having FUN!\u00a0 I plan on keeping it UP!\u00a0 Hah!<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026 Apply the SEVEN BOOK RULE if you want to solve any problem, tackle any obstacle, achieve any goal; GO! to the\u00a0public library\u00a0<\/a>(the most blessed and noble institution in the most wonderful and abundant United States of America) and get yourself a stack of seven books on whatever bugs you: DIVORCE, DEATH, Disease\u2026 Whatever the problem the more you know about it, what others have done before you to deal with the issue and get on with the business of living THE BETTER!<\/p>\n

YOU think SEVEN BOOKS is too many?\u00a0 Well let me assure you that reading ONE book on any topic is NEVER enough (\u2026and I don\u2019t care IF that book is the Bible\u2026).\u00a0 Read only ONE book and base your opinion on it and you will sound like and idiot babbling on topics with no clue.\u00a0 Two books is a little better.\u00a0 Three is much better.\u00a0 Four and you are looking good and feeling informed.\u00a0 Five and YOU know a good, useful, amount about the topic.\u00a0 Six and you are ready to deal with almost any aspect or complication related to your problem and SEVEN!\u00a0 SEVEN BOOKS means you are a MASTER ready to deal with whatever issue with dignity and style.<\/p>\n

I know because I wrote the unpublished book \u201cTHE VACATION APPROACH,\u201d before I got THE CANCER diagnosis.\u00a0 I wrote it from the perspective that I had something to say about success because I felt and feel successful because I have lived my life according to my innermost callings and thus have found a measure of fulfillment in LIFE.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 It is true.\u00a0 I have.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean that I am perfect or that I think I am perfect.\u00a0 I am divinely flawed LIKE you.\u00a0 WE are all perfectly flawed and our flaws often house our greatest strengths. Yet, everyday I cultivate peace and enjoy the fruits of that labor.<\/p>\n

Much LOVE,<\/p>\n

Frau Kolb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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