Did Descartes really mean, “I am, therefore I think.” Might be more accurate. (I think)

There are definitely times in my life when I feel a need to know for sure, instead of what others may ‘think.’

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Having spent a bit of time over the past week, flipping TV channels, looking for some mentally uplifting programs from which I could learn something new, I was again overwhelmed with the amount of TV gossip we are exposed to. We are definitely enveloped in a world where TV and other media are obsessed with personal scandal.

Okay, I have to confess that I parked myself in front of these programs, too.

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The New Year has begun, and yes, some of us even made a few resolutions. Well, maybe we were coaxed to do it. Maybe some of our friends have been waiting all year to use the excuse of the resolutions to ‘suggest’ it is time for some of us to ‘get more active’, for example?

Is it an automatic response to the year end, to publicly agree to follow the advice of those friends? Maybe it is about agreeing in order to ‘look good’ or be a good citizen? I can recognize a bit of that! Mostly, they give me the appearance that I am resolute in my resolutions!

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What a great year it has been! I have learned so much, including this new hi-tech way of connecting to my family, friends and everyone who has stopped in and visited richmatters.com in 2009.

It has shown me that there are so many ways that we can be a part of one global community. We speak of this one-ness and find it so difficult to truly understand how closely we are a part of each other’s lives.

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It’s late evening once again, my favorite part of the day, here in front of my fireplace, dancing flames, strings of twinkling colored lights and soft music, turning my room mystical, it seems.

My thoughts are on the words inside cards that have been given to me. May I say a few words about those words…’Peace and good will towards all men?’

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As my cheeks started to numb, I quickly retreat inside, choosing instead, a cup of hot chocolate and a warm fire. It is bitterly cold as the last remnants of a Western Canadian blizzard, now empty of wind and snow, unsure of invitation from neighboring provinces, firmly plants itself, deciding to linger for a few more days here in the foothills.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes has suggested that ‘many people die with their music still in them.’ If he’s referring to the sounds I’m trying to produce with my piano, I agree. The music is still in me somewhere!

However, I don’t think he was referring to my attempts to play the piano, although he himself was a poet and writer of songs. I think he meant the part of our lives that I call our shadow, the part that is always there, but in the background.

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