Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there.
~Chinese Proverb


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Monday Giggles

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

~Yiddish proverb

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Oh Baby

I walked past a man with a baby in a pack, strapped to the front of him...
"You got a little somethin' on the front of your shirt, there," I said, pointing to his chest.
He laughed.
Nice smile.

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Pearls

"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."


Stephan Hoeller



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Exaserbating the Issue

Often we make our problems much larger than they are.

Don't look for the worst case scenario.  Look for the best possible angle.

You're going to find whatever point of view you seek, so purposefully seek a point of view that makes the task at hand sound easier.

Look for reasons why the task at hand will be a cinch, not for reasons why you're might fail!

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Where have you been?
Who has victimized you?
How bad was your childhood?

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

—Robertson Davies

It is within your pain that greatness grows.  Choose to be great!

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Good Morning, Beautiful Thursday

Awoke @ 6:30 this morning.

Listened to the birds announcing the beautiful new day on the rise as I watched the trees that were just out of view, cast dancing shadows on the bedroom walls.

My feet hadn't even touched the floor, but the trees I couldn't even glimpse assured me that today would be something to dance about.  I love days that make me want to dance.

The other half of my soul rolled into me wrapping his warmth around my body.  Bliss...

Even the bat on the wall looked content with the dawning of a new, exciting day...

Huh?!  Wait, did you just say, "the bat on the wall?"

Oh yeah, I said there was a BAT on my WALL!

*Giggle*

Turns out the other half of my soul is my much weaker, wimpier, shrieking, hiding under the covers, half.
*More Giggles*

I ♥ Bats!

They eat bugs.  Loads of bugs.

I took the opportunity to show the boys a bat, up close and personal.  Then I fetched a step ladder and a clear bowel and once he was safely inside, we examined his fuzzy little self a little more before we released him into the backyard.

A bat!   *Giggle*

Well... welcome into my amazing life, Thursday~

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Beauty

When you deliberately see the beauty outside of you, you are cultivating the beauty within you...

Similarly...

When you deliberately see what you define as "ugly" outside of you, you are cultivating the "ugly" within you...

There is beauty in all things, including You.  Choose to see it.

Your life can only contain that which you choose to see.
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Stillness Speaks

~ When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness.  It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future.  Such clarity, such simplicity.  No room for problem making.  Just this moment as it is.