tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55630548559604570442024-02-08T00:13:46.567-05:00The New Book of CluesA collection of thoughts that seem to contain a small amount of wisdom. <br>Time will judge the merit of the content; the true value, as in life, is in the process of becoming.Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-3287417406599104442011-11-24T22:48:00.001-05:002011-11-25T00:49:58.289-05:00Never Leave a Friend Behind: In Memory of Larry Healy
I never really got that whole Biker code you lived by, but this rule I did understand: Never leave a friend behind. Yet, here I am, left way behind, without so much as a goodbye.
It's been exactly ten Thanksgivings now, since I found your lifeless body. I was so freaking mad at you: I told you this would happen!!!
Since then, I can't make it through Thanksgiving Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1Naples, ME, USA43.970514 -70.61086743.8790915 -70.7687955 44.0619365 -70.4529385tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-54869927701149591642011-07-25T12:09:00.009-04:002011-07-25T22:54:54.428-04:00Soy La Madrina
The other day, when I had to watch the kids, my friend Billie said, "You have to be the grandmother today." Although I don't mind being a grandmother, it feels strange being one to Billie's kids because she is my friend, not my daughter.
I am becoming a member of this family. I'm staying in Billie's basement for two months so that I can enjoy spending summer in the Maine woodsValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0Naples, ME, USA43.971739 -70.6092257999999912.683684499999998 -130.3748508 75.2597935 -10.84360079999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-66624035711614097602011-07-05T14:06:00.000-04:002011-07-05T14:06:18.388-04:00A Dream Deferredby Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.Or does it explode?
Town Beach
Naples, Maine
4th of July, 2011
Last week I left a secure, sensible job so that I could run off and live in the Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0Naples, ME, USA43.971739 -70.6092257999999912.683684499999998 -130.3748508 75.2597935 -10.84360079999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-64339996256911371282011-06-22T11:30:00.011-04:002011-06-22T13:42:55.987-04:00Follow Your Bliss
"I’ve learned to follow my heart. And if my heart’s not in it, you won’t see my body there. If my heart’s not in it, I get my hands out of it, period. " Andrea deMichaelis"God gives me only happiness. He has given my function to me. Therefore my function must be happiness." A Course in Miracles
For several years now, I've dreamed of being a Snowbird. I've Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0Cocoa Beach, FL, USA28.3200067 -80.60755130000001128.2773587 -80.6335018 28.3626547 -80.581600800000018tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-17623635561919173772011-01-26T21:31:00.003-05:002011-06-22T10:37:16.220-04:00Bookkeeping ButterflyI've always been torn between two sides of myself: On the one hand, I'm an analytical number cruncher. I have a talent for looking at a jumbled mass of transactions and sensing the formulae and patterns that give them meaning and hold them together.It is what makes me such a natural bookkeeper, and also why I'm so adept at grasping advanced musical theory. That side of me is very accountant-like Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-89257341389052149182010-12-12T09:13:00.002-05:002011-06-22T10:37:53.529-04:00The Three Levels of Enlightenment: Which are you?I didn't write this article; it is currently circulating on Facebook, and it is such a good clue that I wanted to post it here, where I can remember to find it later.
Enlightenment, simply put, means to bring light where there was darkness. In spiritual terms, this ‘light’ isn’t literal but symbolic. Just like the cartoon characters whose bright ideas are shown by a lit bulb over their heads, Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-37767947048905888152010-12-02T19:03:00.001-05:002011-06-22T10:38:07.590-04:00Blessed are the TrudgersThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The journey of 1000 steps may begin with just one step, but it is still 1000 steps long: one foot in front of the other, consistently, persistently, whether you're feeling it or not. When you're in the flow, it's great! Everything you touch is golden: your work is brilliant, youValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-81258037462629673092010-08-15T08:51:00.098-04:002010-08-15T09:38:03.934-04:00PROSPERITY PROJECT: How Much Money Do You Really Need?During the course of the Prosperity Project exercise, in which we began with $1000 and every day had to spend $1000 more than the day before, we found that we very quickly ran out of things we wanted to buy. After about four days, the amount of money we were expected to spend became ridiculously large. When the game got to that point, many people stopped playing ... I mean, we Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-80879354522403070012010-08-13T11:22:00.002-04:002011-06-22T10:38:30.246-04:00Exactly what is a thought, anyway?Thoughts are powerful things. They can make us happy, make us sad, make us feel week or powerful, they can convince us we can do anything, or they can convince us to give up. As Hamlet pointed out to his good buddies, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." And Hamlet should know: he spent so much time brooding on the Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-58330781479939501872010-08-12T07:32:00.001-04:002010-08-13T19:02:15.125-04:00How the Mind Works: An IntroductionWhere do our thoughts come from? I'm not talking about our ideas, which can range from brilliant to "What in the world was I thinking?" I'm talking about the chatter that constantly goes on in our mind. What instigates those thoughts? What is the catalyst that gets those thoughts started? It seems to me that if we can understand the answer to that question, we can Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-36099518172488784952010-08-11T08:01:00.000-04:002010-08-11T08:01:08.780-04:00What Do You Really Believe About Money? (It's Why You Might Not Have Any)During last fall's Prosperity Project, we played a game in which we imagined ourselves spending large sums of money. We began with $1000, and every day our goal was to imagine spending $1000 more than we spent the previous day. The first few days were easy, because most of us have a backlog of things that we need and want. By about Day 4, however, many of us had run out of Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-83488765545373135062010-08-10T07:44:00.001-04:002010-08-10T07:55:14.228-04:00Back to SchoolSchool started yesterday. I miss school. I always loved the anticipation of the first day of school. My mother would take us shopping for new clothes, which I tolerated. But she would also take us shopping for new school supplies, which I adored. I got to choose the notebooks and pens and pencils that I would use in organizing all of the new knowledge I was about to Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-7084801701864458292010-04-01T08:53:00.224-04:002010-07-26T21:01:27.616-04:00Plan Be: Surviving WinterI've been on sabatical since just before Thanksgiving. Until then I had been writing a daily blog, dutifully getting up hours before dawn to post a fresh article before I started my day job at the pool store. It was a lot of work, but it was a wonderful run! I was energized and enthused. I learned things as I wrote, and I grew quite a bit as a result of practicing what I Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-84460307182898615102010-02-02T10:02:00.006-05:002010-03-27T21:23:25.532-04:00Prosperity Project Revisited: Learning to ReceiveThe Prosperity Project was a game, originally suggested by Abraham-Hicks, that we played here on The New Book of Clues a few months ago. Every day we took some time to visualize how we would spend a certain amount of imaginary money. We started with $1000, and every day we got $1000 more dollars than the previous day.
The game was designed to stretch our imagination when it Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-7774161676554123582010-02-01T20:20:00.011-05:002010-03-27T21:24:02.930-04:00The Power of Gratitude: Prosperity Project Revisited
Sometimes our dreams start small. If we have been accustomed to believing that we are only worthy of just barely scraping by, then our dreams must start small if they are to start at all. For most of my life, whenever I envisioned having a place of my own, I always pictured a small studio somewhere, with just barely enough room for my things. I was always certain Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-69660306908553705512010-01-25T16:38:00.007-05:002010-03-27T21:24:51.233-04:00Life as an AltoI've been silent since November. At first it was necessary; I was exhausted, and badly in need of rest. After several weeks had passed, though, I began to be a bit concerned. I'm a writer. Shouldn't I be writing? And yet, I felt strongly led to remain silent. Until today. Today, it dawned on me that the silence I've been exhibiting recently is actually a Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-49026184126443962902010-01-21T08:29:00.002-05:002010-01-21T08:34:26.320-05:00Focus on Your Best PossibilitiesNote to Self:
Your best possibilitiesStop trying to prove to the world how bad things are. Start showing the world how great things can be.
From the very same place where you've been sliding backwards, you can begin to move ahead.
Whether you're in a good place or a bad place depends entirely on where you choose to go next.
Where your passion and attention are consistently focused, is whereValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-41596833316803078302009-12-31T07:39:00.000-05:002009-12-31T07:39:26.217-05:00Endings and Beginnings
Today is the end of a year, and also the end of a very turbulent and life-changing decade. This evening, as we celebrate New Year's Eve with our family and friends, we will be doing so under a full moon ... a blue moon, no less, made even more powerful by a partial lunar eclipse in some parts of the world. If there was ever a time perfect for leaving old things behind us, this is theValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-83929261844736896342009-12-15T16:09:00.002-05:002009-12-15T16:19:11.143-05:00Emotional Healing: or, Why we need pets
I cried today, for no good reason. I was going along, slow but sure, doing my job, when all of a sudden a huge wave of emotion knocked me down and I suddenly found myself depressed. Thankfully, December is a very slow month at the pool store, so since I didn't have any customers to deal with, I let myself cry.
I spent many years depressed. Suicidal, actually. Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-73308086121799080722009-12-03T08:38:00.002-05:002009-12-31T13:54:43.661-05:00Pain
Today's blog post is borrowed from Facebook friend Deavon DiPrima. It was such a beautiful clue that I wanted to share it with you here:
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Once a young man came to a revered teacher, who was seated under a tree near a beautiful lake, and asked for the solution for his unhappiness. After some minutes of conversation the old master kindly instructed the visitor to put a handful of salt Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-44689709772417031822009-12-02T12:38:00.005-05:002014-01-29T08:07:17.382-05:00Wishes Fulfilled: Wayne Dyer, Part 2Part 2 of a review of Wayne Dyer's Keynote Speech at the Hay House I Can Do It Conference, Tampa 2009. The ideas are Dyer's, sometimes fleshed out with a few of my own. The following represents what I, personally, took away from that lecture. This lecture is a prevew to Dyer's Book, Wishes Fulfilled.
In my in my last post, I shared a synopsis of Wayne Dyer's introduction toValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-1455429818831364142009-11-30T07:41:00.011-05:002009-11-30T11:56:01.412-05:00Wayne Dyer at I Can Do It Tampa 2009 - Part 1
Often, when we've been anticipating something for a very long time, the actual receiving of it seems kind of a letdown. We tend to build things up in our head to such a high level of expectation that no mere mortal can ever hope to deliver. Sometimes, though, the reality turns out to be even better than we could have ever imagined. Wayne Dyer gave the opening keynote at Louise Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-58708134627877914092009-11-29T12:20:00.003-05:002009-11-29T16:50:40.905-05:00Be Where Your Feet Are
For the past few days I've been basking in the luxury of being completely alone. All of the people who usually share this space with me have gone away to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday elsewhere. I remained behind, exhausted from overwork, grateful for the chance to catch up on sleep and clean the house.
The cleaning took days, and required quite a few nap breaks. It's notValerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-28056739318863806302009-11-24T11:12:00.004-05:002009-11-24T11:25:35.289-05:00Learning to Reconnect With My Body and the Physical World
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." Bertrand Russell
Life has a beautiful way of teaching us far different lessons than the ones we think we are here to learn. Have you noticed that?
I spent this past weekend at the I Can Get It! Conference in Tampa, Florida. I've had my eye on this Louise Hay event Valerie Saurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774090373359082831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563054855960457044.post-12697865881484268842009-11-23T19:14:00.000-05:002009-11-23T19:14:32.054-05:00Tarot Reading after I Can Get It Conference, TampaTarot images © US Games Systems
Three Card Reading: LEARNING TO RECONNECT WITH MY BODY
Self: Nine of Wands
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