Lift up your heart and seize the good.
- Suzy Shepard
How many times I have been past a construction site and seen this sign as a standard for public safety!
If you think your heart is liable to be broken, clad it in a panoply of virtue — the heart’s indestructible hard hat called love. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
This first line of this graph is a pictorial recording of a Spanish phrase accurately stated. The second row is my voice stating the same phrase. (I was learning to speak Spanish.) This comparison shows my voice looking different from the perfect model, but passing the test of similarity.
Speak up even if your voice is not distinct or perfect. It may be better to say good words — albeit imperfectly — than be silent and acquiesce to the the expression of an adverse, inappropriate authority. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
A simple southwest bean soup looked more appetizing with the colorful chips hiding the bland bean concoction.
When you have to sell an idea (e.g., getting your child to do his homework), make the plan more appetizing by topping it off with a winning way. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
The movie credits were scrolling and I was impressed by all the help it took to make this two hour film.
Make note and acknowledge those people who have given you a lifetime of good. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
I bought a miniature piano keyboard game for my phone that allows me to submit my piano playing accuracy scores online! Imagine that. Competing with all app countries. All languages! All cultures! Music, the universal language. Today, my first try at “Happy Birthday”, scored thirty first in the whole world.
Move into the world and find the universality and abundance of love and joy that is there for you. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
Thump, a-thump, a-thump. Dah, dah-dah, dah, daaaaahhh, dah, thump. I turned to see where the jazz bass was playing and realized it was the yellow strap on the side of this tractor trailer truck. I would have loved to follow it down the highway and mentally add some great mind melody. Never have I heard a truck totin’ bass string strap so enlightened.
Make something lively and cheerful with what you have been given — and all that jazz. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
There are so many things I don’t know! For instance, walking past this container, I saw these building materials and wondered, “What are they and how will they be used?”
Let go of those things you do not have to know (e.g., how the car works, why there is air) and enjoy life without having to invent, build, or maintain everything in the universe. This is my flashback of good for today. Suzy Shepard
The aspen tree is a study in resilience. Thousand year old aspen roots survive forest fires and send up new trunks. When traumatic life experiences burn on the surface, remember the aspen. Your deep roots will survive and grow into a life not wasted - a life worth living. You will have flashbacks of good.
