Milestones Along Your Path

For happiness, your Life Path needs many life building stones as time permits you to gather.  Each stone adds worth to your life.  Each is a life lesson.  Together these stones placed securely, build a path for you and for others, such as your friends, children and others in your  community, can follow.  Here are a few to gather and place on your Life Path.

You need to know three Arts and two languages.  Such as painting, pottery and poetry; Chinese and French

You need to know three dances and how to keep a rhythm.
You need to know three occupations for yourself, one of the three should require papers, it should need a certification to practice, such as, but not limited to, a contractor, real estate agent or lawyer.

Know how to play an instrument that can be played with a group.  Such as guitar, drums, sax etc.

Know three Leaders.  “Know,” means to be on a first name basis with them.  Clergy, political, military, business, farming

Know three Teachers and reward their efforts
Know three Artists and buy their work.
Know three Farmers
Know three Professional Soldiers
Know three Business People. Two of your sex and one of the opposite sex.
In the beginning, don’t waste your time with the non-self issues of the day such as politics or giving out your opinions. This can be done after your path is built. Don’t get distracted from your Path Building to help others. After your path is built you will have plenty of time to help others plus you will have the experience and credentials to do it justice to those that you give advise, unlike the Donner Party who took advise of an eager-to-help know-nothing, who wrote in his guide book:  The most direct path would be leave the Oregon route— bearing west-south west, — and thence continuing down to the bay of San Francisco. (Hastings, p. 137-138)  This “helpful” advise ended up with the Donner’s cooking themselves for dinner.

The Maui Path is a compilation of the best path stones man has assembled.  Your path also  contributes to the Maui Path.

Morro Bay Music — Central Coast Music on Main Street

Just walk in to this music store and you will hear, “Hi, Guy” and you just feel right at home.  There are few people in this world that have that kind of affect on strangers but here, in Morro Bay, is one of of those special people.

Everyone who meets him calls him friend. His name is Ed.

I visited Haight-Asbury in the times of the hippies (1968). There were flowers everywhere and there was music being played on the streets and friendly people were wearing bright colors of cloth and long strands of beads and they had yellow and white garlands in their hair.  It was just as the song lyrics of, “If your coming to San Francisco” that was written by Papa John and sung by his best friend Scott said it would be. It was real.

But, that all changed within a year as drugs and free-loaders found easy access to these open-hearted people.  Later, Haight looked more like skid row than the Eden that I had found there in the beginning.  So, what does this have to do with the, “Hey, Guy” of Central Coast Music in Morro Bay, California?
Well, that feeling of belonging, that deep love of music and true welcomeness are still alive in this store. It is truly knarly, Man. Go See.  And tell his wife, Sunshine and daughter, Rainbow “Hi, Guys” from me.   You will love this place because, Ed is one of the “people worth meeting” in this short life of yours.

Know Where You Are Going, Friend?

Big Fin’s best friend is a monkey, now that sounds cruel, but you don’t know the whole story. You see, Fin lives deep in the jungles of Cental America and Puncho the white faced monkey feeds him flowers and bananas. Puncho shares everything with Big Fin. Puncho is a super friend.

Finding super friends like Puncho is hard, but finding category friends is not hard at all. You just have to be open to every kind of friendship and not look for someone who will meet every little need you have of a super friend.

To start, list the things that you like to do into categories. Let’s say you enjoy going to the movies, shopping, golfing and gardening. Once you have your list then find a person that enjoys one of the same things that you do and make them your friend for that purpose or category. If that friend overlaps into other areas that is fine, but if he or she doesn’t then that is fine too. You will find that these category friends are more fun to be with and easier to keep as friends because you don’t have to include them in the parts of your life that they have little enterest in, but because you share the same category interest, both of you energize each other while doing the thing that you both enjoy doing.