24 Nov 2011

Thanksgiving Is A Lifestyle ~

 
 
‘When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.’
~ Chinese Proverb
‘Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.’
~ William Arthur Ward
‘You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before […]

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30 Aug 2011

Response to Comments ~

‘A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. ‘
~ Victor Hugo
Hello to all, this is a response to comments left here requesting a response . I wish to say thank you very much for taking the time to write to me and for your kind thoughts towards me. I am not one to ignore others however, […]

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25 Dec 2010

Happy Holidays!

 
 
 
‘It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.’ 
~W.T. Ellis
‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.’
  ~ Author, a seven year aged child
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, […]

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08 Sep 2010

Nurturing Creativity ~

 
‘I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation […]

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28 Aug 2010

Living Love Actively ~

 
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged”
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”
~ […]

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17 Jul 2010

UnWritten ~

 
‘In the creative act there is an upward surge from some unknown, fertile, underground layers of the mind.’
~ Koestler
 
‘Let the beauty we love, be what we do.’ ~ Rumi
 
I love music, sharing it, singing along with it, listening to and dancing along with it.  Music is like water for the creative soul’s nourishment, a liquid […]

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20 Dec 2009

Conversations With Aleena ~

 
This is a Love Note in my musing sort of way: alphaOmega Order aka alphabetical order …  a short brief, a buss on the cheek while running out the door, a loving knowing Intimate look across the room of meeting later ~
In the midst of being the Designated BS today … no, no, no, not […]

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14 Nov 2009

Order in the House ~

 
‘The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult, the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.’
~ Alden Nowlan

‘You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.’
~ Abraham Lincoln

‘ The trick is growing up without growing […]

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25 Sep 2009

Sapphire by Kiara

Sapphire as created by my grand~daughter Kiara, age 11, using the ‘Paint’ program in Windows.

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16 Jul 2009

A Child’s Music

 
 
 
 I am sharing some music videos sent to me by my lovely grand daughter Kiara.
Thank you Kiara Joy ~
InJoy listening to Animusic ~
Resonant Chamber
Pipe Dreams
Aqua Harp
Cathedral Pictures
Acoustic Curves
 
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