Life and Random Thinking

Thanks to all my readers in 2014, PLUS a post about Exertion and Success

Posted on December 30, 2014 by dfolstad58

: makes me smile

: sand between her toes

: lunch with my son in Brewster

: cute

: perception 101

: watch that flipper buddy

: Sicamous paddlewheeler on Okanagan Lake, north end of Penticton

: biking along the channel, some locals

: just for fun

: posing at Tojo’s restaurant

: should I buy Google?

: seasonally cool today

: bye

I know you haven’t heard much from me in awhile. I got distracted and did fewer posts but even so I did manage 88 posts this year and I had 3200 views this year. Thanks to you. Blogging is something I enjoy but that enjoyment really is super enhanced by comments and likes.

I would like to do more next year, so I request your continued encouragement in 2015.

One post I have been thinking about is in regard to exertion. In an effort to develop a healthier lifestyle that includes regular exercise I have been doing a Heart Conscious Exercise Program three times a week. It is a ten week program and you go three times a week exercising doing both a cardio and strength program. I hope that ten weeks will be enough that I have a good foundation to continue on my own for a healthier 2015.

What about you in this post? On the wall at the clinic is a chart for perceived effort. You need to apply yourself to excel but not over do it, right?

RPE Scale As I look at this chart three times a week I wondered if it applies to more than exercise. Our lives and our enjoyment of life are crossovers of work, family, friendships, wouldn’t you agree?

We are happiest also when we are busiest I believe, but without overdoing it. For example, think about any area of your life. Are you satisfied with that area? I will use Friendships as an example right now. How are your friendships? Close enough? Do you see your friends often, and hear from them regularly. I am blessed with some wonderful friends but I know in 2015 I want to exert myself more in this area. I know I can improve so that I am even more blessed in this area, every area.

In fact in every area of my life, I think I will try to exert myself a little harder in 2015 for a full and blessed 2015. If I want the result, then I have to make the effort.

What about you in 2015 – is there an area that you only making a “fairly light” effort and are going to move to “somewhat hard”.

Thanks for reading, thank you for your encouragement, and thank you for your comments.

Posted in health, Thinking Out loud, Uncategorized | Tagged 2015, effort, exertion, improve, improvement, success, thank you | 2 Comments

It’s hard to believe but it happened

Posted on December 30, 2014 by dfolstad58

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Originally posted on Life and Random Thinking:
Since I planted roots here in the Okanagan, summer holidays have without exception been the “Tourist In My Home Town” variety. I have a close friend though who has been encouraging me to…

More Galleries | Leave a comment

You don’t bat husbands on the head with a rolling pin until later!

Posted on October 1, 2014 by dfolstad58

This post is all about smiling and chuckling. Enjoy a few minutes of classic humor including some links to some short clips of classic Mel Blanc. Laughter makes you younger, and strengthens your immune system also – enjoy for your health sake, after all winter is coming!

Mel Blanc was an amazing voice artist, and together with the other gifted people at foghorn Warner Bros I have enjoyed many a chuckle at the antics of Foghorn Leghorn.

Whether he was torturing that poor dawg, matching wits with the chicken hawk, or proving himself a chicken instead of loud-mouthed schnook. click here Foghorn is always unique and hilarious. vimeo click here

Foghorn Leghorn: Looky here, son, I’m no loud-mouthed schnook.
[Hits dog as he talks]
Foghorn Leghorn: This is a dog, not a chicken. Chicken’s don’t look like dogs. Who told you this was a chicken, son? Nice boy, but doesn’t listen to a thing you say. You got a bum steer, son. I’m a chicken, not a schnook. You’re wrong, son.
Barnyard Dawg: [Kicks Foghorn] Schnook!
Henery Hawk: Schnook.

Henery Hawk: Hey, he called you a chicken.
Foghorn Leghorn: That’s what I’ve been – I say, that’s what I’ve been telling you, boy! I am a chicken!
[Henery hits Foghorn on the head with a shovel and drags him away]
Henery Hawk: He talked me into it.
Foghorn Leghorn: I’m just a loud-mouthed schnook.
Henery Hawk: Chicken or schnook, in our oven he’ll look good.

Henery Hawk: Still tryin’ to prove you’re a chicken, eh?
Foghorn Leghorn: [nods]
Henery Hawk: Schnook.

Little did I know that he was also knowledgeable in the mysteries of marriage or is he?

Foghorn Leghorn: Let me guess, dearie. You’re looking for a husband.

Prissy: Yes!

Foghorn Leghorn: Well, you’re going about it the wrong way, sister. You don’t bat ’em on the bean with a rolling pin. That comes later.

Posted in humor, Uncategorized | Tagged foghorn, Humor, husband, marriage, mel blanc, prissy, vimeo | 4 Comments

Love Letters in the Sand Some Quotes of Kahlil Gibran

Posted on September 25, 2014 by dfolstad58

I read these quotes, and they made me pause….. and think. Take a moment in your day to read some awesome quotes, and pause…

Grit Flow

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon.He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923. It is Gibran’s best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over forty different languages and has never been out of print. In this book a Prophet who is about to board a ship…

View original post 1,007 more words

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

No One likes Poison

Posted on September 22, 2014 by dfolstad58

I was watching a tv show recently “Unforgettable“, it’s a series that Sue & I enjoy together. In this one particular episode the main character, Carrie is poisoned and nearly dies. It got me thinking about how insidious poison is. The character Carrie was dying slowly from poison and the poison worked invisibly inside her, wrecking tissue and reeking damage until the damage would become beyond capacity to endure, resulting in her demise.

Of course in this case, it was a tv show, and the main character is going to live, they find an antidote and she is saved.

But what about poison in real life?

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up relations. ~ Buddha

Is DOUBT that poisonous?

If it risks that what is (I believe) most important to us which is relationships, then we need to know for certain.

Doubt is to be uncertain, to distrust, or to be hesitate in believing. If I apply that to my relationships, that is poison. I don’t want any doubt at all. I want my relationships to be unquestionably healthy and real.

That isn’t to say relationships are all perfectly and sunny. Rain comes, and we need welcome it as we need it for a healthy planet, and in the same way clouds can be a way to strengthen relationships. Rain can eliminate doubt. When “bad weather” comes into our lives and then we will know, by their actions and not by words, that our relationships are strong – because of the rain we cast out doubt and are stronger, healthier, doubtfree.

Thanks Disney for a great movie!

May we all have strong relationships with the people most important to us, and may they have no doubt in us, or of us.

Let us each be the doubt antidote that instead bonds people, strengthens friendships and heals relations.

Have a nice day, and thanks for reading today. I must be having a “thoughtful” day. 🙂

I am not certain if this is worth posting, so it could disappear soon. All of the above really is to tell your loved ones that you love them, and you really will always be there for them, unquestionably.