How About a Laugh to Start the Day???

Sometimes you are encouraged about the future when you see something like this:  Yep, the truth is out!!
 
    Specifically, there is an annual contest at the University of Arkansas calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.        
 
    This year's term was:  "Political Correctness."
    The winner wrote:    "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end. "
  You know why a banana is like a politician? When he first comes in he is green, then he turns yellow and then he's rotten..

I think Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors!

An old one, but unfortunately, still SO true!! 

And I've been naughty for the day and somehow that feels really good!!!

One Quiet Moment

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha

Let's Go Shopping at My Favorite Mall!!!

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.--Carlos Castaneda

I'm not a shopper -- actually hate shopping, but the mall is colorful and fun and has a couple of great restaurants -- I don't shop, but I do eat --oh, yes, and I do love the two great book stores they have there!! You did know, of course, that going to a book store is not considered shopping, didn't you?? It's called Mall Research!!

One Quiet Moment

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
-- Margaret Fuller

Ah! One of Those Sunny Days at the Beach!!

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
-- Margaret B. Runbeck

One Quiet Moment

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children

David Bower

In separateness lies the world's true misery. In compassion lies the world's true strength

Buddha

Remembering Chihuly's Art in Seattle

I wanted to share (again) these pics of the artist Chihuly whose work was on display in Seattle a year ago.

If  you ever have an opportunity to see any of his work, it is amazing!

I'm glad I was able to see it and take the shots that I did!

One Quiet Moment

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  Mark Twain

Let's Go for a Walk in the Park!!

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
       - Frank Lloyd Wright

One Quiet Moment

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
    within.
                                                                                 - Horace Friess

Wonderful Skies!!!

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
-- Harold B. Melchart

One Quiet Moment

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie

And from me --- Amen to that!!

Some of My Favorite Places and Things!!!

The authentic self is the soul made visible Sarah Ban Breathnach

Trees are the Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.  Rabindranath Tagore 

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom. R. Tagore

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
        - John Buchan

One Quiet Moment

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Spring is Beautiful!! And I Can't Wait!!!

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
-- David Seabury

One Quiet Moment

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A Beautiful World It Is -- Well, Will Be!!

Nature does nothing uselessly.
       - Aristotle

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
       - Frank Lloyd Wright

Beauty for a Quiet Sunday!

Delight in the beauty that surrounds you.

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
    within.  Horace Friess
                                        

                                        

One Quiet Moment

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. - Andrew Matthews

Let's Go to the Beach!!!

We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Ewart Gladstone

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
        - Chuck Sigars

Spring is Coming!!! Really!! Trust Me!!!

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  ~Kahlil Gibran

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine's Day!!!  Enjoy!!!

Lovely Skies and a Beautiiful World!

“Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”  Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hope your week is going well!  Smile, laugh and look for fun and joy wherever you are and wherever you go today!! Oh, I know I'm just one of those "goodie two shoes" old ladies, but it's more fun than being the "old neighborhood bitch", don't you think???

There's Always Beauty When You Take Time to Look!!

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.”Sarah Ban Breahtnach

Yes, there are all kinds of beauty, everywhere once we learn to look for them instead of focusing on the bad and the ugly so often found on the surface!!

Learning to Enjoy Every Day!!

The best medicine there is -- for everything!!

The earth laughs in flowers.  R.W.  Emerson

                                                                       

Find a lovely place to eat and enjoy a special lunch!!    

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing -- Matt Biondi

I'm Tired of Snow and Cold!! Back to the Good Times!!

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
-- Margaret Fuller

What a Difference a Week Makes!!! Happy Sunday!!

This was Saturday a week ago here in Portland!

This was yesterday here in Portland!!  Both shots were taken at my apartment complex!!  Those white flecks on the side of the building are snowflakes! BIG snowflakes!