You said yes, with little or no doubt, first thing out of your mouth when asked, “Can You…Will You…Can We????

It’s all about participation, the verb that can transform life into a party.

Yes, to those things I am uncertain I can do.

Yes, to those things I have never done before.

Yes, to the Wisdom of aging and the Ages.

I ponder the concept of the Pursuit of Happiness and the insights of Thomas Jefferson. In Jefferson’s time “Pursuit of Happiness, “written in the Declaration of Independence, meant PRACTICE. One of the premises of the Declaration of Independence meant to practice happiness, not pursue, or chase anything!

Life, Liberty, and the Practice of happiness.

In our times I expand the concept to include:

Follow your Bliss.

Do what you love, and the money will come.

Be Happy for No Reason.

The Dali Lama says, “Our business is to be Happy.”

Master Thomas Jefferson starts his famous statement with Life.

I was at a seminar and the trainer asked the participants “Who wants to represent life?” My right arm headed for the sky. Every chance I get, I say yes. In this group it was obvious that I was the oldest personification of Life.

The trainer placed a chair on the front of the stage, I was asked to stand on the chair and represent Life. I respectfully obeyed and looked out on those seated on the floor below me. I took deep relaxing breaths, inhaling and exhaling as much Life as I could. I felt my hands filled with energy as gratitude seemed to flow into the room. I enjoyed the attention, importance, and the challenge of being present.

The trainer said, “When we are small children, and we reach out to the ‘bigs’(adults) in our Life to lift us, and if we are continuously ignored, we imprint that Life is unable or unwilling to give. We decide that I am not good enough to have what I want. The child begins to imprint thru their Life not to bother to ask for what they want.”

At that moment in me, the persona as Life stopped being a mystery and became an entity, a field of abundance. I felt a profusion of energy residing in me.

I am Life, its representative with incredible power and permission to give, to connect and affirm: Ask me, I am here to deliver, was Life’s message.

The trainer said, “Reach to life,” the group did, and I, as Life reached back. We merged Life, Liberty, and the Practice of Happiness by happily asking for what we want.