I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!
I miss you Sam!!

Monday, June 29, 2015

My World!!


Another new week!! The time does fly whether you’re having fun or not, but fortunately for me, I nearly always have fun!!  One of the best things about visiting Seattle is being able to go to the beach!! I do love the water!! So, of course, my friends took me to the beach for a few hours before it was time to return to Portland. And, I’m sharing a few of those moments with you today – yes, Seattle is still my “other” home!!
Hope all of you have had a great weekend and that you are ready for a new week – and hopefully it will be a great new week!!


I have found that if you love life, life will love you back - Arthur Rubinstein.


All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson.


Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
 - Henry David Thoreau


I think everyone should be told they’re beautiful until they believe it – Unknown
Happiness always sneaks in a door you did not think was open – Anony-mouse.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

One Quiet Moment

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Mahatma Ghandi
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Dr. Martin Luther King
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
                                                 Mother Theresa

Some Beauty and Some Wisdom for the Day!



How about some wisdom and beauty for the day!!  My 94 year old friend sent these quotes to me last evening and I thought they were worth sharing on this lovely Sunday!!  Hope all of you have had a wonderful weekend filled with all the good things – whatever they are to each of us!!
 
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I will know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Agatha Christie



In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel Reardon



An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value the comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. -Robert Brandt



Even if happiness forgets you in a little bit, never completely forget about it. -Jacques Prevert



The world is full of people looking for  spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. -Doug Larson


What Can I Say?

What Can I Say?
I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Portland Time