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life and the desire to know and learn more and sharing it all with love.

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me, just a women with heart and soul and the desire to do and grow. to be healthier with in mind and body. and to live life better. I could find a mate but that is not all ways my goal.

People don't know that I'm good at

where do I start. I am a introvert,so most pass me off just as a pretty face, so they don't stop to see with in. and I don't jump and scram to get noticed. it is not important to my happy place!

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I like what i have found so I will drift back from time to time. to see and to learn and to breath in more of thi good stuff here. the enlightenment is soulful.

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• A reply on Conversation: What motivates you?

  Oct 13 2012: I like what you said about the path. you learn so much on the path of doing something, and it can inspire you to make another goal to get to the end, but is there really an end. if your mind is set to seek and explore and the path is the path? your inter spirit I do think is what makes you do the things you set out to do. the desire to learn and to be more and to have more and to share that with others. in my life I have goals that I did not get to but I was never sad that I did not get to them I just made other goals for the path that I turned on to by the situations and the decisions of my life. but I had fun on that path most times. sure we all have the good times and the bad times, but it's the times that make it what it is.

• A reply on Conversation: What motivates you?

  Oct 13 2012: hum I don't think on death as well, it is an unknown factor. and I don't think about it til it is here. so for right now I think of all the living to do, I don't want to say that I never tried to do something. there are just too many things to do. and I don't want to sit on the couch and watch tv all day! I want to taste it feel it and share the greatness of what can be. life is not over til it is over. and if we have thought at that time, I think I will have wonderful thoughts of the life I had.
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  A comment on Conversation: What motivates you?

  Oct 13 2012: Oh my goodness there are so many things that motivates me! I have dreams, goals, desires, love ones and people and place to see. Books to read, trips to go on. A life to live! all of it motivates me to do what I do. I do think however the thing that makes me be so motivated is the positive spirit I have. I see every thing as a go. I am 55, divorced and my children are now grown. Some of the things I did not do because of them I can do now. I just joined a network- marketing company. why ? for money yes and no. if there was no money and I could explore the world, like I want to do and have time to play in my garden when and where I want. Read all the books, meet all the people, share thoughts and likes and wants. Help someone else see the possibilities in the world and in self. I still think I would be happier. It is a way of life that I seek. That at this point in time is my motivator. My day time job is boring restrictive, and time consuming. and it is just not the place I want to be at this point in my life. I am a creative person and that job just does not do it for me. but really it is my positive thoughts that motivate me. Smile.

• A comment on Conversation: Does formal education as a child hinder a child's creativity?

  Oct 13 2012: But when a child is limited by exposure, openness, of mind ,body and thought and what is right or wrong, and all things around them are in the negative, that is really what kills creativity in my view!
  if you see the sameness everyday and night and it is mostly sad, bad,hurtful,negative then how is someone going to think differently and see the possibilities of the world , the mind, people ,place things. to see or have the desire to do something different, to be creative?

• A comment on Conversation: Does formal education as a child hinder a child's creativity?

  Oct 13 2012: Does formal education as a child hinder a child's creativity?
  I would say that it depends on the teacher, and the environment and all who are involved with the child. Creativity comes from so many different stimulus. I the teacher shows that there is no right way to paint or draw a dog and that one should think of different things to show and to expose the child to in a positive manner. No rights or wrong just different. The subject matter also has a lot to do with it. Now math is math and reading is reading. However if a teacher uses their creativity to teach. and she or he is not just trying to get though the day! but really wants to see the student grow, and have cognitive thinking skills. yes I do think that formal education can can help the child have a creative mindset. I had a formal education but the people around me were creative. and so therefore I am. but like every thing else being creative is positive and most times some others do not see it that way!!

• A comment on Talk: Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself

  Aug 17 2012: great concept and wonderful talk. I do share this bond of her talk. and it value is how I feel we must embrace this concept of oneness and otherness. wow. eye opening.

• A comment on Talk: Susan Cain: The power of introverts

  Aug 17 2012: I love this book it help me understand myself and understand how I can work in the Network marketing world. by acting like a extrovert. and quietly go on with life not being so loud and understanding that I am good with in self. it explained a lot!! thanks so much