Northern Exposure

Do you remember the TV show, "Northern Exposure" about a small Alaskan town?

I liked this show, although I probably only saw a dozen episodes. I don't own any DVD's, but was thinking of getting the entire series of this show on DVD, to take in the RV. It would give me something to watch on rainy days or on days I can't get an internet signal.

I recently came across some quotes or sayings from the show.

A person has three choices in life.

You can swim against the tide,

and get exhausted

or

You can tread water and

let the tide sweep you away

or

You can swim with the tide,

and let it take you where it wants to go.

It's just human.

We all have the jungle inside of us.

We all have wants and needs and desires,

strange as they may seem.

If you stop to think about it,

we're all pretty creative,

cooking up all of these fantasies,

it's like a kind of poetry.

I guess what I am trying to say is,

I don't think you can

measure life in terms of years.

I think longevity doesn't necessarily

have anything to do with happiness.

I mean happiness comes from

facing challenges and

going out on a limb and taking risks.

If you're not willing to take a risk

for something you really care about,

you might as well be dead.

We hold in our hands,

the most precious gift of all:

FREEDOM

The freedom to express our art. Our Love.

The freedom to be who we want to be.

We are not going to give that freedom away

and no one shall take it from us!

I don't remember the actors name, on the show he would
 report the town news and offer up this type of advice
 on the towns radio station.



Thoughts about....

Life begins

at the end of your comfort zone.

-Neale David Walsh

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Our purpose is already encoded in our souls

before we are born and therefore

 there is someone inside us who knows what it is.

Watch for synchonicities.

They are signposts to purpose.

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You have to strive every minute

to get rid of the life you have planned

in order to have

the life that's waiting to be yours.

-Joseph Campbell

The price of anything

is the amount of life you exchange for it.

-Henry Thoreau

If you don't risk anything,

you risk even more.

-Erica Jong

No, these thoughts do not mean that I am just going to go off and do things without thinking.

I am still taking my time to get things in order and making some plans, but I am not planning out every single step along the way.

I want to see where life is going to take me.