Hands are amazing things, life would be so much more difficult without them. How blessed we are to have fingers so we can touch, hold, grasp, and create in a multitude of ways. We often give, serve and help others with our hands; we can even speak with our hands. For the love of hands…
There are a lot of things that we can share with others as we go through life that might be of value to someone. My philosophy is that it’s good for the soul to share what you care about, what is valuable to you. One way or another I believe we are all here to…
Blue 3 Ways
I’m really excited to be co-hosting the Thursday Favorite Things Hop this week. It’s a fun hop I’ve been participating in for a couple months, meeting new friends, and getting lots of creative ideas. There’s always something new to discover at Katherine’s Corner, good food, good people, creativity; what more could you want? Please join…
The kids are grown and life is changing so this has caused me to think about how I will be spending the next 20 or 30 years. Of course someday I hope to be a grandmother and I’m sure that will become a favorite thing, but no one in our family is quite ready for…
Obviously we all know what’s coming – Mother’s day. It’s that wonderful day of the year that we shower our mothers with cards, flowers, candy or other gifts in an effort to show our appreciation for her years of love, sacrifice, devotion and caring. Some people might look forward to celebrating this day, and others may…
It’s always interesting catching dancers in action.
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather that luxury; and refinement rather than fashion…to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.” William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 American Minister
How does one create the day by letting go? A strange concept that came to my mind late last night after I realized that I had failed to create this post on Tuesday as scheduled. My thought was not just, “Oh well, I’ll do it tomorrow”, but it was more of a reflection of…
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace at all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
This was not a hard one, except that there were too many photos to choose from. So I chose a lot of photos that express together to me. Instead of having you endlessly scroll or click on thumbnails I decided to put them in a slideshow (You have to click here or on the post…
A simple random thought or memory draws the corners of my mouth up a bit, and my son might ask, “What are you smiling at?” The twittering of a bird on a tree branch outside my front door draws my attention; I gaze silently smiling as I watch his uncontrollable song. My cat jumps from the table…
Create A Beautiful Life 