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    Baby Boomer Ramblings: Reflections on Life Through Childlike Eyes
    Baby Boomer Ramblings: Reflections on Life Through Childlike Eyes
    Baby Boomer Ramblings: Reflections on Life Through Childlike Eyes
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    Baby Boomer Ramblings: Reflections on Life Through Childlike Eyes

    By Gene McParland

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    What a gift life is! It comes ready to open every morning. Each day is totally unique. Each day can be a new adventure. It can be a source of joy, or of sorrow. It all depends on how we approach it. The secret to joyful living is learning to look at life through the eyes of a small child. As a bona fide baby boomer, I have lived a life filled with many joys and some regrets. Today I choose to live life in joy and with a sense of childlike wonderment. This book is a reflection on how to recapture the sense of wonder and joy we were born with.
    This book is a collection of thoughts, ramblings, and experiences about our special gift of life. Baby Boomer Ramblings offers my thoughts, observations and suggestions, on living life in a more positive and happier way. All of this is wrapped around a poem, or more correctly, a poem wrapped around lifes gifts.
    Personally, I prefer to live life as a poem. Poetry adds magic to life. Its the minds and hearts way of expressing ones inner voice. That is what this book does. Unlike a textbook of life that one reads and studies, poetry is recited by ones mind and speaks to ones heart and spirit.
    At the minimum, this book offers some food for thought on how to live in the moment. Learn how to live life with a sense of awe and childlike glee. As a baby boomer who has experienced around two-thirds of my life, Im finally at that stage where Ive finally got it.
    Read this book and discover how to have contentment and laughter. Become a childlike poet of life and be forever young!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2014
    ISBN9781452594255
    Baby Boomer Ramblings: Reflections on Life Through Childlike Eyes

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      Baby Boomer Ramblings - Gene McParland

      Copyright © 2014 Gene McParland.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-9424-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-9426-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-9425-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014904398

      Balboa Press rev. date: 04/03/2014

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Approaching Life with Childlike Wonderment

      Escape to Nature to Heal

      Death is Not the End

      Beach Glass and the Concept of Timelessness

      Dance of Light and Shadows

      Accepting that Some Things Happen in Their Own Good Time

      Anam Cara and the Concept of Soul Friendship

      How Many Angels Can You Get on a Pinhead?

      Do You Live Your Dreams?

      Checking My Saved Time Account of Life

      Monsters Under the Bed

      Life and Love are 4 Letter Words, Too

      Life’s a Beach! Especially for the Young at Heart!

      My Resolutions for the New Year as a 9 Year Old

      Mom’s Day Ramblings

      Take Time in Life to go a Whimsey

      Thanksgiving and Black Friday

      Tears

      The Lost Art of Catching Snow Flakes on Your Tongue

      The Weight of Joy

      There Are No Ordinary Moments

      Tree Forts - Portal Back to Youth

      Yes But or just plain old But…

      Sing the Children’s Song of Laughter

      Is a Garden Ever Dead?

      If I Have Sorrow

      The Concept of Beauty is Really Simple

      There Must Be Dragons Still

      9-11-01: A Day of Change and Transformation

      I’ll Drink to That and Did

      Be That Poem

      Does Magic Still Exist?

      Of Course There Are Still Fairies and Leprechauns

      On the Ebb Tide of Life

      Dancing to the Music of Life

      Always K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)

      If it’s All Nothing What Does Matter?

      No Such Things as Endings

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to the poet in all of us, and to those who can see life through the eyes of a child. Life is a journey - have fun along the way!

      Introduction

      What a gift life is. It comes ready to open every morning. Each day is unique. Every 24 hours is a new adventure. It can be a source of joy, or of sorrow. It all depends on how we approach it. Learn to look at life through the eyes of a small child and it’s an adventure. Look at life through glasses of self-pity and want, then life is a struggle filled with unsatisfied desires. I’ve lived life both ways and I know which way I prefer to live now.

      I’m a bona fide baby boomer. I’ve lived life filled with many joys and many regrets. Today I choose living life in joy with a sense of childlike wonderment. Believe me I remember my regrets, often much more than I should. Today I try looking at them as some of life’s lessons. Many of these lessons could have been learnt a lot quicker than they were, but my thick Irish head sometimes likes banging against the wall of life way longer than it needs to.

      This then is one of the reasons for writing this book. It’s a collection of my ramblings and experiences about, dare I say it, the meaning of life. Herein I offer my thoughts, observations, and suggestions on living life in a more positive and happier way. Hey, there’s some good advice here! At the minimum these selections offer some food for thought on how to live in the moment. How to live life with a sense of awe and childlike glee. How to live life a little off-centered, being a little out of step with society’s dictated norms. And all of this wrapped around a poem, or more correctly, a poem wrapped around life’s gifts.

      Personally, I prefer to live life as a poem. We poets tend to do things like that. Musicians use music. Artists use paint and other mediums. Poets paint with words. We sing our songs of life with poetry. Everything I do can relate to a poem (yes, even that!).

      Poetry adds magic to life. It’s the mind’s and heart’s way of expressing one’s inner voice. Unlike a text book on life which is read, poetry is recited by one’s mind and speaks to one’s heart and spirit. It is a very unique way of expressing thoughts and feelings in a few words instead of writing paragraphs and pages of text.

      We are all poets even if we don’t know it. I know, I know, a bad rhyme, but that’s OK. It says what it means to say. We all have the voice of a poet, a musician, an artist inside of us. It’s part of our creative soul. It is what connects us with the god-force. When we become creators, we transcend the mere human aspects of our being. When you really get down to it, it makes us more human in the good sense of the word.

      Poetry is to be savored. You don’t speed read poetry. If you do, you end up missing the whole point of the piece. Poetry like life is not meant to be rushed. You miss all the richness of it, if you do - you miss those nuances that make life a beautiful experience.

      Poems are not

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