"I have crossed many rivers" - is that an opening line to a novel? If not, I'm stealing it. :)
It reminds me of "I once had a farm in Africa...."
I love this too:

I also believe that the word, spoken and written, magnetizes, has the power of attraction. We are magnets of the universe and through words we can attract whatever we are interested in and pay attention to.

Well dang. "Too many words," my family said, and I stopped writing ... (I really did cut back drastically, anyway! Barely posting a few times a year!)

Thanks for the inspiration and the reminder that we CHOOSE some things even if it appears our only choice is to accept ("It is what it is") or wage Quixotic battles against things we cannot change.