Lars Toomre

Some Personal Thoughts and Trivia

Reflection

Daily Reflection: Something To Quit To Be Happy

A lantern on a white wall in Malaga, Spain by the ocean and a setting sun

What is something you must quit to be happy?

Daily Reflection: Best Done Slowly

Exceptional variety of colors as the sun sets over rolling ocean surf

What is best done slowly?

Daily Reflection: Priceless Lesson From A Mistake

Bird perched on pier as brilliant sun sets over blue ocean

What is one priceless lesson you learned from a mistake?

Daily Reflection: Simple Way To Make Life Less Complicated

Golden Gate Bridge at night in the fog

What is simple way to make life less complicated?

Daily Reflection: Simple Rule To Live By

The ocean edge glows in the blues of the early evening light

What is one simple rule you live by?

Daily Reflection: Hard To Forget

Wonderful teal and blue colors in afternoon in the Maldives Islands

What is something that is hard to forget?

Daily Reflection: Little Voice

Looking down steps at blue domes on the hills of Santorini, Greece

What has the little voice inside your head been saying lately?

Daily Reflection: Serious Attention

Morning on Rue de l’Ancien Courrier in Montpellier, France

What is something that always should be taken seriously?

Daily Reflection: Survivor

Sailboat on a lake with mild waves during an orange sunset

In what way are you a survivor?

Daily Reflection: Different

Waterfall in the middle of Columbia River gorge in Oregon

What makes you different?

Daily Reflection: More On Regular Basis

Summer colors and flowers around the fjord at Svolaer, Norway

What do you wish you did on a more regular basis?

Daily Reflection: Take For Granted

Overton Church under grey skies in Overton-on-Dee, Wales, Great Britain

What do most people take for granted?

Daily Reflection: Memory of Mother

Orange sunset over the Arno River in Florence, Italy

What is your favorite memory of your mother?

Daily Reflection: Difficult Conversation

Arial view of Mont St. Michel along the coast of France

What is the hardest thing you ever have had to tell someone?

Daily Reflection: Energy

Golden Gate Bridge from base of northern face on San Francisco side

What drains you of energy?

Daily Reflection: Never Put Up With

Castle on a hill in Scotland

What will you never put up with?

Daily Reflection: Acquisition of Knowledge and Growing

Promotional photo from early 1900's for Glacier National Park, Montana

The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t mean you’re growing. Growing happens when what you know changes how you live.

How are you growing today?

Daily Reflection: Focus of Thoughts

Mountain snowy peak during 2012 winter at Glacier National Park, Montana

What do you think about almost every day?

Daily Reflection: Promises To Self

Promises to oneself include doing this drive along the Hawaii coast

What promises to yourself do you still need to fulfill?

Daily Reflection: Love

Setting sun over the Gran Canyon in northern Arizona

Love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s a treasure that people would give anything for, yet it costs nothing to give and receive. There is an endless supply, and it can be extended to family, friends and strangers at any moment. It increases positivity and acts like a shield against negativity. It forgives, heals, encourages and inspires.

Give love, receive love and invest in love every day. Because where you invest your love, you invest your life.