I love music.  Songs…. songs… songs.
But.
You know.. some songs just don’t make sense to me.

“If I could put time in a bottle….”

I would put a lot of things in bottles.    Like rockets.  But not time.  Time is here to be all spent up.  Wrung out like a sponge.  Soak up every drop…. and wring it out and soak it through… all over again.

Or…

“You’ve got to be cruel to be kind….”

Bunk.  Bunk. Total bunk.  Who writes these songs?
You DO NOT have to be cruel to be kind.  Don’t let anyone fool you about that one.  No Sirrrreeeeee.   The kindest people I know…..  do not have a cruel bone in their bodies.  Heck. They even dream about nice things… like fluffy clouds…. and cars filled with a herd of colorful lambs…
It takes a big heart to be kind.

These are both big on my to-do lists.  Especially for my upcoming Fourth of July Resolution List…. …. if I had such a thing. Back to the To-Do’s.
1.  Living each moment of time.  Fully.
2.  Being kind in each one of those moments.  No matter.

Every time we fill ourselves with the spirit of loving kindness….. a little ugliness …. a little bit of the despicable is removed from the world.

And along with that… if we live in the spirit of love…. our lives become fuller…  and our souls fill up with the better of it all.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
—  Swami Sivananda