Guru, ADD, Texas, Relationships, AND keeping up

Hi All,

Some items I thought I would share:

1) Some of the positives that adults with ADD report are:
Endless Energy
Hyperfocus
Energy and hyperfocus combined
Great Imagination
Creativity
Humor
Ahead of "establishment" thinking
Creative thinking, problem solving
Spontaneity
Great passion for interests
For some adults with ADD, understanding ADD is enough. This helps them to find ways to cope and to modify their lives to find productive and creative outlets. For others, coaching or therapy helps, others find support groups useful. Yet others find medication to be the most effective way to treat ADD.

2) Quote from the Daily Guru: "We find both our own power and happiness when we begin to set our own standards around what has heart and meaning for us. "

3) It is no surprise that I don't like the holidays. That isn't a judgement on anyone, nor on God. It is poetic breath and commentary on a situation. The risk of art and life is critique. So, remember, it's nothing personal, AND it's not about you. Jesus isn't sending me to hell, and honestly I'm not sending myself there either (for you theology people). Like the quote above, millions of people find their power and happiness through what has heart and meaning to them. For some that is a church of a multitude of variations and denominations. For some it is nature and others sports, family or even craft and vocation. Most every psychotic mindset revolves around the need to make another's viewpoint wrong. This is not opinion with a bias, it is a mindset and ideaology. When I compare the consciousness of alot of churches to that of what exists at a football stadium on Sunday, I am merely commentating a opinion with a bias. Although neither is any saner than the other, in my opinion, it doesn't keep me from going to the football game. If what has heart for you is an institution I don't go to, it is o.k. No one will die from differing perspectives. But, people will die from differing ideologies and the need to make others wrong. Look at Iraq.

You can believe everything you want to believe. I can as well. I have never said you were wrong for believing those things, even if I don't agree with them. Yes, I may be critical of those things, but so what!? It's not about you and it's not personal. I find it amazing that so many people who make God out to be some kind of american GI soldier who's going to kick some ass, are the same one's who can't stand it when their institutions (which may or may not have anything to do with God) are criticized. Does God need you to defend him? And, plus, I don't think He minds the criticism.

A similar example of this is being able to love America and our country, while having the freedom to express a differing opinion about our foreign affairs. I don't hate you for disagreeing with me, and my opinions aren't going to change the world. So, we move with no judgement and a spirit that lessens suffering.

O.k. I'm going to bed.

Happy Festivus.