Healthy Happy Loving Life: Get Joy From Gratitude

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

Joyful hibiscus tree in the Feng Shui Garden

How many times have you heard people exclaim, “Don’t let anyone steal your joy!”  That’s lovely advice if you started with joy.  But many grew up without joyful relatives or joyful circumstances, and they are not very familiar with joy.

Henri Nouwen said,

Joy does not simply happen to us.  We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM. http://www.kebba.com

The ultimate answer to finding joy is to practice gratitude.  Start with lovely flowers, for example.  Select some that appeal to you and study them and their unreasonable beauty.  Joy will seep into your consciousness as you begin to weave the wonder of the flowers into your mind and heart.  Feel grateful.  Give thanks, if you are a person of faith.

Now study the clouds during the day, the sunset, and the stars at night.  Give thanks for all this beauty.  Watch a toddler run and laugh.  Feel grateful.  Watch a favorite dog or cat and enjoy its hijinks.  Feel grateful.

I believe very deeply that we are in-joy-meant– that we are designed to be in joy.  So keep practicing these studies in gratitude, and you will develop a joy that no one can steal.  And that’s you being ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life^sm!  It’s up to you!  

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Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM, is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: The Pinball Machine of Life

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© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Today, I offer my Pinball Machine Theory of Life.   Think of the top 3 disappointing events you’ve had in life.  A relationship suddenly over.  The job you KNEW was yours, and someone else got it.  The friend who suddenly cut you off.  Remember how much that hurt?

Sometimes, it’s like you are the ball on a pinball game board.  After the token goes into the machine, and the spring launcher is pulled and released, the ball zips up the slope of the game board.  Sometimes, like the pinball, you are racing up the board of life thinking you are definitely headed in a certain direction.  Then– wham!– you get hit with a flipper.  For a moment, you don’t even know what your new direction is, right?  You’re just reverberating with the impact of the flipper (ow!), feeling the pain, and trying to get your bearings again.  Then you begin collecting yourself, look up, and see what unintended direction you are now headed in.  Yikes! Not what the plan was!  And how many time has this happened to you?

Grammy-Award winning musician Garth Brooks has a powerful song called, “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers.”  In the song, he tells of being out with his wife and seeing the woman he dated in high school.  In high school, he used to pray for that relationship every night.  By the time he saw his old flame again, he realized he would not be in the amazing relationship he was in with his wife, had the relationship with his old flame worked out.  So now he is massively grateful for the passing of that old relationship!  He was redirected on the Pinball Machine of Life, and now he is deeply glad.

If you are a person of faith, remember this timeless truth [Romans 8:28]:  We know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him…

When the flippers hit you, you are being directed for powerful purposes, by a Wisdom greater than our own.  Do your best to deal with the hurt.  Then embrace the new opportunities that are arriving.  Be the happy and grateful pinball.

Now, doesn’t it feel great to be even more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life^sm?  It’s up to you!  

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

UpBeat Living: Responding to the Massacre at Newtown

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Effective living, grateful, Gratitude, Newtown, stress, Stress Management, surviving disaster

© 2012 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Today a young man, who had planned ahead, killed 28 people in and near Newtown, Connecticut.  Adam Lanza apparently killed his mother at home, shooting her in the face.  He then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children and 8 faculty, including the much-loved principal.  In minutes, the world of these children was turned upside down.

Soon after Lanza entered the school, around 9 am, teachers and students were astonished to hear the school intercom come on, broadcasting a strong interaction between people, including swearing.  Teachers locked their classroom doors, hid children in cupboards, and in the gym, shielded the children with their bodies.  At least one teacher convinced her class there was a wild animal loose in the school, and that was the reason for cautious behavior.

After police arrived, children were cleared from the classrooms and groups began running to the nearby fire station.  Connecticut State Police began arriving in minutes, since these State Police take their police cars home and everywhere with them, for fastest response.  Today, this paid off handsomely, with an array of  dozens of sedans and trucks arriving, low-set flashing police lights bright.  ATF arrived.  Canine officers arrived.

President Obama made a short, emotional speech.  Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy met with the families.  At this hour, 10 pm Central,  a memorial Mass has already been held, with even the Pope sending a message of comfort.

We are left now with many questions.  What could possibly have been Adam Lanza’s motivation?  What could he possibly have wanted to achieve by shooting all these people, especially children ages 5-10?  Did he plan all along to end his shooting spree by ending his own life?

So how can we respond to the massacre at Newtown?  In several ways.

1. Pray, for the families of those shot today, for the investigators and the counselors, and for all those affected by all similar events.  Keep praying.

2.  Hold Go(o)d Thoughts.  Whether you believe in prayer or not, stay positive and believe that the investigators will answer the questions as fast as possible.  Believe that, with Lanza dead, this can be the last mass shooting in this country.  Are you open to that possibility?  Believe that people can and will heal in time.

3.  Get into the gun control conversation.  Follow the commentary of people like Captain Mark Kelly, astronaut husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  Giffords was one of 19 people shot at a Tucson Safeway, almost 2 years ago; 6 of those shooting victims died.  Ask yourself where you are on these issues, and whether different gun control laws could have changed today’s outcome.  Know and speak for your position.

4.  Give thanks and hold your loved ones tight.  You get to spend another holiday season with them.  In some homes, certain chairs are empty this year.

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You, and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core.  She is also an ordained minister.

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UpBeat Living: Energy of Your Gates and Gateways

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at choice, choices, Effective living, energy, friendships, fulfilled, goals, grateful, Gratitude, Kebba, Mental equivalents

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Where is the most beautiful gate you’ve ever seen?  Was it modern or ancient?  What was it made of?  Was it the gate to a home, or a hotel entry gate?  Was it a vintage City entry gate?  What purposes did it serve?  How did you feel as you gazed at that gate?  There are a number of ways in which gates can serve us.

Gates are used mainly for security, to impress, or to commemorate something.  Most gates are designed to filter something, such as entrance gates for movie theaters, or the gate to a yard.  Paris has one of the world’s most famous gates, the Arc de Triomphe, a commemorative monument to those who served and/or died in the defense of France, in the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.

The most distinctive gate I have ever seen is the Stargate from the movie and TV show of the same name.  An ornate circle of “nahquadah” perhaps 20 feet across, the Stargate filters people and other living beings who want to be transferred quickly between planets.  People jump into its circumference, and they are conveyed instantly.  When the Stargate is switched off, no one can come in through it.  It conveys the good guys and prevents the enemy from arriving.

Now consider the gate to your yard.  It allows you ingress and egress for people and packages, and it keeps out some people and dogs you might not want straying into your yard.  In Feng Shui, your gate has energetics, which vary by its placement and its appearance.  It is important to keep your gate in good repair, and to keep it lovely, if possible.  Look at the next two pictures, which show the pieces of an old gate and then the gate after repair.

Photo by Kebba Buckley Button

Which gate would you rather have?  Which is more pleasing?  Which one has better energy?  Obviously, the “after” gate is more pleasing and has better energy.  That one will help energize your yard.  It will draw in great energy, perhaps vitality, great relationships, and prosperity.

One more level: what about your mental gateways?  How effectively do they protect your Inner Peace?  What are your mental gateways allowing in?  Are they welcoming vitality, great relationships, and prosperity?  Over time, you have learned to filter negative thoughts and not allow negative people to disturb your mental/emotional/spiritual peace. No doubt you are always learning better how to do this.  So on the flip side, what are you attracting?  Would you like to learn a simple exercise to attract more?

Photo by Kebba Buckley Button

Today, design your Lifegate and install it in your mind.  Imagine a beautiful gate, perhaps surrounded by lush plantings, or attached to a lovely wall made of stone.  Make your gate of any material you like.  Look in magazines, in Google Images, and in photo calendars for ideas.  You can always adjust your gate later, in materials, height, width, thickness and color(s).  When you have settled on your intial Lifegate, sit quietly for a few minutes, twice per day, and picture the energies you want flowing into your life through your gateway.  Picture vitality entering.  Picture your vitality arriving, then your prosperity, then any other qualities or energies you would like to have flowing in.  Be in touch with your gratitude, which will strongly support the good conditions flowing in…and staying.  Call up the mental image of your Lifegate often, see it in vivid detail, and see the flow you want coming in through it.  See the gate shut to negativity and takers.

It’s your Lifegate.  You are in charge.  Maintain all the gates of your life for the Highest and Best.  What will give you the best energy and the most of the life you want?  It’s up to you.

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UpBeat Living: What’s It Take for a Wedding?

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choices, finding love, fulfilled, grateful, Love, Marriage, romantic love, Wedding

© 2012 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved

Photo by Ron Button

When you think of a wedding, what images come to mind?  Do you think of a church, or a country club lawn?   Would there be pews or rows of chairs filled with well-dressed people, and a bride in a formal white gown?  Do you picture many flower arrangements, men in matched suits, organ music or a string quartet, and an officiant in robes?  Is a series of pre-parties something you expect, such as a bridal shower, a bachelorette night, and a bachelor party or weekend?

Perhaps Kim Kardashian comes to mind, with a very high-end wedding, very expensive clothes, and the most expensive wedding registry gifts known publically in decades.  A friend tells of her ex-husband paying for such a regal wedding, including a custom wedding gown that cost $15,000.  When Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at Westminster Abbey, Diana’s gown was very full with a train requiring attendants, and the coach carrying the couple away from the church was part of a parade through London.  When British royals marry, a subculture of souvenir production flourishes: every object from pencils to plates to teapots is emblazoned with the couple’s official photo and sold as mementos.  Of course, at this level of public attention, everything is televised.

Perhaps you’re thinking of something simpler.  Do you think of Julia Roberts marrying Lyle Lovett on the beach, barefoot, in flowing, gauzy clothing?  Do you remember hippies in communes, wearing flowing cotton clothing and affirming their love without even a marriage license, then serving a vegetarian feast?  As a minister who officiates weddings, I have seen both complex and elegantly simple wedding plans.

In the 1980’s, a couple made arrangements to have their wedding in the Grand Canyon.  Yes, actually in the Canyon.  The bride spent many weeks having a special bridal gown/costume made, with both riding pants and a detachable skirt.  The couple reserved mules to carry the wedding party down to Indian Garden, where the ceremony was performed.  Attendees were expected to wait for the ceremony time and listen by radio at the corral on the South Rim, or to hike to the ceremony and return to the Rim.  The wedding party went on to lodgings at the bottom of the Canyon.

I worked with one couple who wanted a small formal wedding in their lovely home.  They wanted only a small gathering of mainly family members.  We refined the ceremony and set a date.  They got their license and ordered their wedding rings.  Two weeks before the ceremony, a family tragedy took place, and the couple let me know it would not work to have the wedding for some time.  A few weeks later, I had the strange intuition to put on makeup in the morning, although I was only taking the car for emissions inspection.  While stuck in a long line of cars, I got a call from my couple, saying they just really wanted to get married.  They asked what I was doing right now.  I told them my car and I were stuck in line, but I would call as soon as I emerged.  The couple said, “Good!  Then we’ll pick up the rings!”  We met at the jewelry store and discovered a lovely landscape area for the ceremony.  I performed a short, off-the-cuff ceremony with all the key elements, and the jewelers were delighted to serve as witnesses.  The couple in love was married.  Much later, the bride told me how happy and peaceful she and her husband were together.  She told me her daughter’s wedding had cost $30,000 (in 1990 dollars), and that marriage had lasted 6 months.  Financial investment does not guarantee marriage longevity.  Note that years later, Kim Kardashian’s ultra-expensive wedding led into a marriage that lasted 72 days.

Yesterday, I received a call asking me to officiate a wedding for a very gracious young couple I know.  They wanted to be married today.  They were ready with a license and relatives in town, for a very small wedding in their condo.  I knew they were completely committed to each other.  So why not?  I packed my ministerial robe, a ceremony program, and a CD player with wedding music, and off I went.  Today the couple in love are married (see photo above).

What’s it take to make a wedding?  Besides the officiant and the license, only the elements you want.  Shape the wedding to your own personalities and desires.  And may your wedding be your very own style of launch for the joy-filled marriage of your dreams.

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UpBeat Living: Life Bats You… in a Different Direction

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adjusting to change, energy, Feeling energized, friendships, fulfilled, grateful, healing, Kebba, living beyond, making changes, moving on, Relationships, stress tips

Photo by http://www.livelifehappy.com

© 2012 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Think of the top 3 disappointing events you’ve had in life.  Maybe you were in a relationship you believed in, and suddenly it was over.  How about the time you had your heart set on a job, you knew you were the prime candidate, and you didn’t get it?  Then there was that friend who suddenly cut you off, with a weird reason or no reason.  Remember how much that hurt?

Enter, the Pinball Machine Theory of Life.

Sometimes, it’s like you are the ball on a pinball game board.  After the token goes into the machine, and the spring launcher is pulled and released, the ball zips up the slope of the game board.  Sometimes, like the pinball, you are racing up the board of life thinking you are definitely headed in a certain direction.  The right direction, surely.  Then you get hit with a flipper.  Ow!  For a moment, you don’t even know what your new direction is, right?  You’re just reverberating with the impact of the flipper (ow!), feeling the pain, and trying to get your bearings again.  Then you begin collecting yourself, look up, and see what unintended direction you are now headed in.  Yikes!  This is a new direction!  Not what the plan was!

Now let’s talk about that major relationship change.  Grammy-Award winning musician Garth Brooks has a powerful song called, “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers.”  In the song, he tells of being at a football game with his wife and seeing the woman he dated in high school.  Back then, he used to pray for that relationship every night.  By the time he saw his old flame again, he realized he would not be in the amazing relationship he was in with his wife, had the relationship with his old flame worked out.  So now he is massively grateful for the passing of that old relationship.  He was redirected on the Pinball Machine of Life, and now he is deeply glad.

Now, that perfect job you didn’t get—what changes would that have created in your life?  Changes that would have prevented something great that then did happen?  Here’s an example from this writer’s life:  20 years ago, she flew to Denver for a pre-hiring interview with an international company.  Having done projects with the CEO of the Colorado Division, she knew it was only a matter of negotiating the position and salary.  In Denver, she scoped out where to rent an apartment and what moving arrangements would be involved.  But when she called the man who was to interview her, he said he would call back in 20 minutes and never did. He never managed to meet with her during the 5 days she was there.  When the CEO asked how her conversations with the interviewer went, she told him they never even met.  The CEO said, “but I thought it was a pre-hiring interview?’  She said, “yes, I thought so, too.”  She never heard from the company again.  It was a bitter disappointment that hurt for many months.  Now, however, she sees that she would never have met and married her husband, had she been given the job in Denver.  She was redirected for a powerful reason.

As to a friend who suddenly cut you off, let’s put it in perspective and then give thanks.  Recently, a client was suddenly dropped as a friend because she declined a vacuum cleaner demonstration.  That’s right.  She politely declined an emailed request, due to an extreme work schedule.  Also, she did not know the friend-of-a-friend-of a friend that she would be helping by giving 2 hours for a demonstration of a product she could not afford.  The inviter then sent an attack email, assaulting the client’s integrity and spirituality.  The client called the inviter’s wife to ask if she felt the same way.  The wife said she would call back.  Immediately the inviter emailed the client again, nastily saying she must not go behind his back to talk to his wife, and best she not contact either of them again.  Did the client really want to be friends with people who would go ballistic over small matters?  Reconsidering a number of past hints of the nature of these “friends”, the client sadly let these friendships go.  Since, she has come to be glad they are no longer in her life.  Now she has more time for more compatible friends.  She was redirected for powerful reasons.

If you are a person of faith, remember this timeless truth [Romans 8:28]:  “We know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him…”  When the flippers hit you, you are being directed for powerful purposes, by a wisdom greater than our own.  Do your best to deal with the hurt.  Then embrace the new opportunities that are arriving.  Be the happy and grateful pinball.

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● Your comments are welcome!

 

● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .

UpBeat Living: Real Life is Funnier

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choices, energy, grateful, happy, laughing at stress, stress

© 2011, Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

It’s 9 am in Phoenix on a very humid day that will be about 110 degrees.  I’m sipping an iced tea, my hair is drenched, and I’ve toweled my face and cleaned my glasses twice already.  I have dots of potting soil on my body and clothes, and my gardening flip flops will definitely need to be hosed off.  As will I.  You guessed it:  it’s Garden Minding Morning!  I’m done moving soil and plant stuff for the morning, having started early.  Time to flop, rest, and sip.

Now don’t get me wrong.  I love the effects of doing the work.  The plants are perkier and actually show more color.  The storm detritus is gone.  The patio furniture is clean enough for serving.  The birds can visit the wabi basin, now filled with fresh water.  The bird clan think it’s their spa.  The whole Feng Shui garden feels more harmonious and has a strong energy of beauty and balance.  Plus, my muscles have stretched and, at no charge, my pores are completely cleaned out.

To get to this sipping-resting-reward state, though, this morning involved some…extra moves.  Still in the Purple Foot Society (PFS), since the Bad Box attacked my foot last week, I still wanted to take the smallest number of steps I could.  Emptying the trash, I found something had liquefied overnight, so I got to wash the trash can.  OK, fresh energy.  I’m into clean trash cans.  Then, I needed to go water the neighbors’ plants.  Hmm.  Glad I remembered.  Didn’t want their plants to fry and die today.  It was warming up, so one goal was to finish fast.  In my friends’ yard, I watered the plants and quickly cleared the storm junk and one extremely dead plant.  I brought that now-empty earthenware pot to my doorway and replanted it with an array of coin plant cuttings, drenching the soil through.  A small companion pot got an arrangement of variegated coin plant, to keep the solid green one company in the neighbors’ succulent corner.  Now I was on the home stretch.  Good, because my PFS foot wanted an ice pack.  It had had enough stress.

Scurrying back to the neighbors’ doorway with one heavy, wet pot in each hand, I was astonished to hear a loud “thwack”.  I pivoted on my good foot, only to find the bottom had actually fallen off of the earthenware pot.  I backtracked to get the pot bottom.  At this point, my PFS foot was really complaining.  Oddly, the potting soil had not fallen out of this (strange?) pot.  I picked up the pot bottom and cradled it under its pot.  It looked like it would fit nicely under the pot again, once back in the succulent corner.  I resumed hurrying along the walkway.  At this point, my shorts decided to slide down past my um… underthings.  So there I was with both hands full of wet pots and stray potting soil.  Ever alert to priorities, I quickly looked around for observant passersby, and at that second, there was not one!  God is good!  And sometimes life is funnier than anything we can make up.

So now the coin plants are happily ensconced in their new neighborhood.  The storm trash has gone to the dumpster, there’s ice on my foot and iced tea in my hand.  There’s a shower in my near future.  And I’m sure the potting soil will wash out of my shorts.

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Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com.

UpBeat Living: Sugarplum Visions

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energy, Feeling energized, fulfilled, grateful, Stress Management, Visioning, vitality

©Kebba Buckley Button, 2010, World Rights Reserved.

Everyone has his or her own set of experiences and feelings, stories and images, around the idea of  “The Holidays”. Dedicated shopping enthusiasts have already purchased décor and gifts throughout the year.  Festive types are often wrapping boxes, making cookies, hanging lights, and playing holiday music, by November or earlier.

We have visions of what The Holidays mean and what they should be.  Some people see these holidays as times for gathering with family and friends.  Some see them as times for pulling communities together and remembering humankind’s noblest directions.  Some hold their breath and pray for the holidays to be over.  Some feel isolated from the apparent mainstream of joy and socializing. Some love the seasonal symbols and colors.  Some cringe at the commercial promotion of gifting.  In some homes, elaborate foods, heavy feasting, and expanding waistlines are traditional.  For some, it’s a time to go help serve at Shelter Services.

The earliest celebration in history to become one of our December holidays is what we now know as Chanukah, the Festival of Lights.  It commemorates a miracle regarding the Temple’s nehr tamid, eternal light.  Today, many Jews light a series of 8 candles plus shamos, the center helper candle, to celebrate over an 8-day period.    Chanukah falls in December, based on lunar calendar dates.

The second celebration to become one of our December traditions is what is now known as “Christmas”.  This is literally Christ Mass, a celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, December 25th.  Jesus is believed by many to be the Moshiach, the Messiah.  Prophesied by many about 2000 years ago, the Messiah was to change humankind by his appearance in human form.  The advent of Jesus, and his teachings, ushered in a new era of compassionate values and visioning for the planet.  This holy day, with up to a 12-day holy season, has been celebrated in many ways, throughout many cultures.  In addition to religious services, there are many festive traditions for Christmas: decorated fir trees, singers “caroling” from house to house, church groups re-enacting the Nativity scene, and a mythical Saint Nicholas who delivers gifts or coal in a flying sleigh.

The most recent of the religious traditions to become a December celebration in this country is Kwanzaa.  “Kwanzaa” is Swahili for “first fruits”.  Based on a traditional African harvest festival, Kwanzaa was developed in the United States, in the 20th century, as a celebration of African heritage and the importance of family.   It is always celebrated from December 26 to January 1.  Seven values are celebrated: Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith).   A red, black, or green candle is lit each day.

This column shares only a few hundred words on some of the most profound values humans hold dear.  As the micro-descriptions of the holy traditions flashed by your eyes, what images of your own past Holidays flew to mind?  In the Christmas story of The Nutcracker, little Clara dreams of sugarplums dancing: beauty, music, joy, plentitude, and times filled with love.

From before my marriage, my favorite Holiday memory is from Colorado in 1997.  We waded in steamy hot springs on Christmas Eve, in our swimsuits, with snow falling in our hair, and we laughed.  Later, I went  for a walk alone in the fresh, silent snow.   Never were the stars or my visions more clear.  Suddenly, I felt the connection of all humanity and the planetwide aching for pervasive peace.  My soul seemed to flash around the globe, “seeing” what everyone was thinking about and dreaming of.  I felt a kinship, a connection with all. I felt the Spirit of the Season across all time and space. I knew my sugarplum visions: Pax hominibus. Peace on Earth.

What are the “sugarplums” that dance in your head?  May all your sugarplum visions come true.

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A version of this article appeared in 2004.  Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com

UpBeat Living: God Bless the USA

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energy, grateful, Gratitude, happy, Kebba, Patriotism, social satisfaction

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Every day, I give thanks that I live in this country.  Nowhere else are so many people so free.  Take a moment each day to just feel your gratitude, and notice the Good flowing more freely in your life.

Here is a magnificent short video that celebrates “Proud to be an American”.

God bless you and God bless the USA.

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Reach Kebba at Kebba@DiscoverTheSecretEnergizedYou.com .