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Thursday Christy, Jesse, and I are traveling to Foley, Gulf Shores, and Fairhope.  It's a multipurpose adventure: getting in some beach time, pool play, fishing, connecting with relatives I know and some I don't know, and celebrating Terry Cline's transition into the ever-ever. 
 
I've been packing for the four day trip.
   
Cameras
Alpha 700, charger, lenses, and filters
Lumix GF3, charger, lenses, and filters
GoPro3 and charger  This will be this camera's first excursion.
 
Computerish 
Netbook and charger
iPad mini and charger
  
Clothes
Two pair of shorts
Undies
Four shirts
Swimsuit

Misc
Tripod
Cash
Sunscreen
Notebook and pen
Personal hygene items
Meds
  
I'm excited!  It's been a while since I've been to the beach.

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I know I was shooting for weekly updates on this series.  I'm still working on that one.
    
What have I done lately to enhance my existence?
   
Physical - I participate in aerobic activities, eat fairly healthy food, and laugh a lot.
I have to confess ~ I ate take out food from a restaurant one night and I ate meat a couple times.  Not my usual fair.
I dance a lot.  That is good physically, emotionally, creatively, and spiritually.
Emotional – I hang out with people who I love and who love me.
I practice mindfulness and remember that the difficult people I encounter are teachers revealing things about me to myself.
I greet the day by clapping in appreciation when I walk out the door in the morning.
Spiritual – I meditate, read encouraging information, pray, and play. Lately I've taken to practicing laughing meditation in a casual, light hearted kind of way.  I walk around clapping and chanting 'Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Ha'.  roflmao  It is quite uplifting.
Creative – The 'second a day for 365 days' video project is progressing.  I haven't missed a day and I've managed to compile the seconds weekly.  That way it won't be a huge job at the end of days.
I'm still taking and editing pictures every day.  Most days I post one on Instagram.
I meet almost daily with my imagination and creativity guru.  
    
I've decided to address 500 Days in these random 'First Things First' updates.

• With 267 days left in this evil plan, I'm not sure I'm making appropriate progress.  
• My office at work is about 1/2 cleaned out.  That has to be completed by the end of this year. 
• I'm doing pretty good clearing out the inside of the house.   I'm down to the things that are really hard to part with because they are keepsakes, photos, or things I'm currently using.  I've had a startling revelation:  there isn't room in an RV for knickknacks. There is no where to sit them.  rofl  
• The shop is still a big mess.  It is slowly getting better.  I could probably pull out the tools I plan to take with me and have a 'man stuff' yard sale.  That would get rid of a lot of things.  
• Prepping the house for sale......shaking head sadly.....that is kicking my butt.  The yard grows faster than I can mow and trim.  I need more time on task.  I guess I should play less.  hmmm  The place could use some paint here and there and a little new hardware.   
• RV shopping is an ongoing activity.  I've looked at many and in that process I'm honing in on what I need.  
• Things are as they are supposed to be and I have faith all the pieces will come together when it is time.  

Kudos to  The Organic Sister. for this idea.
  
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I recently read a blog post, The Universe Next Door.  The title sent  my liar mind off into a direction unrelated to the content of the blog. 

The title reminded me that the mind makes things up.  I'd like to think it is making things up that are in my best interest.  That hasn't proven to be right.  Well, half the time it's not right.  There is the whole ying/yang thing.  Seems my mind often makes me afraid, sad, depressed, suspicious, happy, gleeful, excited, loving, and a world of other things.
   
Are my thoughts real or are they  memoryrx? 
 
It reminded me that being mindful is a totally different life experience than living in my head.
So many times in life I've let my mind take me down paths that were imaginary. 
 
Coming back to the present is the universe next door to the one my mind is making up.
  
So, are these ideas a lie created by my mind.  Or not.  Hard for me to tell the difference.
  
I guess I'll just Be Here Now.
 
Fly your freak flag high!  Peace and love

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First Things First 
   

She asked something along the lines of, what have you done today to enhance your life spiritually, physically, and emotionally?  That is a great question and I thought I'd try to answer in my own way.
I composed this list the other day.
 
What have I done today to enhance my existence?
 
Physical - I participated in some aerobic activities and ate fairly healthy food.
Emotional - I hung out with people who I love and who love me.
Spiritual - I meditated, read some uplifting information, and played
Creative - in keeping with Hugh MacLeod's "Make creative work the most important work you do", I put more effort into this category.
I let a 3 year old train my imagination.  Super Samurai Jesse, the fire guy and Ralph the sword guy vanquished the Nylock from the yard. We also caught and released lightning bugs.
I discussed a photo shoot idea with another photographer.
I listened to a podcast on writing. Writing isn't one of my better skills and I'm attempting to improve.
I continued recording for the second a day video project.
I took some pictures.  

If I continue this, I'll post a once a week update of what I've done in these categories.  Heck, I may even find a new category to add.
 
What categories would you use?
What have you done to improve your life today?



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