Tips For A Full Life

1. Get born.
2. Listen enough to learn something.
3. Eat well and enjoy the gifts of the earth. (Except for lima beans, no way.)
4. Learn how to read so as to have access to truth (Bible), mystery (Sherlock Holmes) and unexpected faith (Annie Lamott).
5. Laugh, and make others laugh, especially when it hurts. It hurts less then.
6. Love for the sake of giving, not getting.
7. Help things grow: my kids, my garden, my patience, my knowledge, my love for Steve.
8. Live in today, not tomorrow. Just relax and live 24 hours at a time, then do it again, and again, till it ends.
9. Put others first, me last.
10. Go home.