PINK...Pioneer Integrity with Neverending Knowhow!

PINK (Pioneer Integrity with Neverending Knowhow) is the plan for today. A Little House on the Praire fan, I have always been impressed and inspired by the Pioneers...Great Stories of Pioneer Women forging the trail under great hardships. Facing howling wolves, snakes, Indians, Plagues, Sickness, pain, death, weakness, malnutrition, and just the daily survival needs with cooking, eating, water and hygiene with dignity and integrity as each one overcame great hardships. So many things we take for granted. So little sets us in a stress mode. Yet these women faced all of their challenges, head on, and overcame with great strength.

Trying to have that PINK attitude of gratitude and Faith in every footstep, I have learned that "Courage is not the Strength to go on, but rather going on when you don't have the strength." Wanting that Pioneer Courage, I work hard each day to face it with strength. Watching the Pioneer women I saw that their strength came from within, believing in a greater good, seeing the bigger picture, trusting GOD (the source of all Light, Truth, Knowledge, Love), and not getting distracted from their focus on the mountain/goal ahead. Yet not so focused on only one mountain/goal that they couldn't monitor, and adjust as needed according to the challenges/opportunities, compensating and switching directions as needed.

All the winding roads, paths, trails (of Love and Light)...intertwine like scribble on a page, and all lead home. And since each one of us has the free agency to choose our life, the roads, paths, and trails we take, have created the life we live. All different. Some like rock climbing, others quiet streams, there are those who like to chase storms, and others who love a bright warm sunny day. Always easy, looking in from afar to criticize, but not always as clear in the thick of the brush looking out... makes it a good practice to:

KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT while each one of us forges their own trail, that they have picked. They want to walk it, they need to walk it, they need to learn lessons cut out just for them...

I need to STOP MAKING EVERYTHING a matter of RIGHT OR WRONG...(although there is love and light, and hate and dark) let people live their life in the way they choose. And when we allow this and live life in an inclusive manner, including everyone, being open and loving, life is more rewarding. When we exclude because of different belief systems/choices/trails we are on, we limit our experience, but then that too is a choice!

Today I focus on the mountain ahead...and refuse to listen to the howling wolves. What is your Mountain ahead? What are your distractions?

Think PINK going on when you don't have the strength! In spite of my howling wolves: allergies, health issues, overweight, special needs daughter, family stuff, I choose happiness and begin making the adjustments on the trail to head toward the mountain/goal I want...cause after all, it is a choice from within...in that same place where the Pioneers found FAITH in every footstep...GOD within....our Source.....our Strength!

Put on your boots, shoulders back, and march! I don't even see the mountain/goal right now...in those times, we need each other...it is then I follow the Pioneer in front of me, just make sure you are following a pioneer (like Rita, Todd, Randy, Chris H., Mike, Doc, Pam H, Green man)

Happy Trails :)