Wisdom Leads to Living Well

I love the Dalai Lamas Instruction for Life:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs:

   1. Respect for self

   2. Respect for others

   3. Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
    

The Face of Fall

Halloween

Halloween was a blast this year. We hosted a Halloween brunch with friends in the morning (which lasted all day). We served pumpkin pancakes, which were delicious, fruit, and veggie sausage. For desert we had pumpkin pie :) YUM! It was really fun to have something during the day to celebrate the holiday... minus the hornets that also liked our meal.









We then took Elliott trick-or-treating with our neighbors. It was very busy and the streets were full of kiddos. Elliott tried his best to say "trick r treat" but could only get the fluctuation. He was the cutest little veggie-burger around.
Sorry no pictures of us dressed up this year. We dressed up for two parties on the 29th and forgot our camera!!! RATS!