Crystal Through Which You Gaze

A  L  O  H  A !

Rasta Man Welcomes Us to the Smoke Shop

There is neither truth nor lie; 

everything is like the color of 

the crystal through which you gaze.

             Mexican Proverb

Urban Glory

We do not have to become heroes overnight. 

Just a step at a time, meeting each thing 

that comes up ... discovering we 

have the strength to stare it down.     

            Eleanor Roosevelt

Look To The Everyday Heroes!

Not the glittering weapon 

fights the fight, but 

rather the hero's heart.

            Traditional Proverb

I think a hero is any person really 

intent on making this a 

better place for all people.

           Maya Angelou

And you can 

start today,

right now,

where you are!

Linking To

Weekend Reflections

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YOU

are the reason

we meet

every day

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Love Donors

A  L  O  H  A !

Don't be a beggar of love, 

Be a donor of love.

What is moral is 

what you feel good after,

and what is immoral is 

what you feel bad after.

             Hemingway

I have never been hurt by 

anything I didn't say.

              Calvin Coolidge

I will not let anyone 

walk through my mind 

with their dirty feet.

             Gandhi

Linking To

Feline Friday

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Saturday Critters

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YOU

&

Me

=

US!

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Choose Inner Dialogue

A  L   O  H  A !

I fell in love with taking pictures, 

with wandering around finding things. 

To me, it feels like a kind of performance. 

The picture is a document

of that performance.  

                   Alec Soth

'Atlas'

When you think of Rihanna's voice, 

you think of this whole, rich thing, 

solid like a tree trunk. 

             Chris Martin

'Selfie'

Everything you believe 

affects everything 

that comes to you.

        Abraham Hicks

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Psychology and other branches of science, 

more and more, attest to the truth 

and mechanisms of this. 

As does my own experience 

and understanding.

Whatever is lovely, right,

and uplifting to your mood:

think on THESE things!

Linking To

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Skywatch 

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Thank

Y  O  U

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Not Everyone Sees It

A  L  O  H  A !

Consider a tree for a moment. 

As beautiful as trees are to look at, 

we don't see what goes on underground - 

as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots 

in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. 

But we don't see the roots. 

We just see and enjoy the beauty. 

In much the same way, what goes on 

inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

                       Joyce Meyer

Everything has beauty, 

but not everyone sees it.  

Confucius

That's what I was thinking,

before I took this shot

The only thing that ultimately matters

is to eat an ice-cream cone, 

play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, 

good God, now you're free. 

                   Ray Manzarek

The sparrow that is twittering 

on the edge of my balcony is 

calling up to me this moment a world 

of memories that reach over half my lifetime, 

and a world of hope that stretches farther 

than any flight of sparrows. 

                      Donald G. Mitchell

Linking To

Wildbird Wednesday

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Together We

will get past this

bump in the road

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Ascendancy

A  L  O  H  A !

The positive energy and 

love we give to others,

heals our own wounds.

              Angie Karan

 Every adversity, every failure, every 

heartache carries with it the seed of 

an equal or greater benefit.

                              Napoleon Hill

In order to see birds it is necessary to 

become part of the silence.

            Paul Laurence Dunbar

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,

you dreamers of the world. 

Your star is now in ascendancy.

                     Napoleon Hill

Pendulums do swing.

People do awaken.

Wrong acts

and lying words

sooner or later

bring failure.

The bigger they act

the harder they fall.

Forbearing* people

will inherit the world.

Linking To
Our World Tuesday
My Corner of the World
T Tuesday

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Love You,

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*  "to refrain or abstain from; desist from. 

to keep back; withhold.

Obsolete. to endure.
verb (used without object), for·bore, for·borne, for·bear·ing.
to refrain; hold back.to be patient or self-controlled when subject to annoyance or provocation.   Link

The Major Problem

A  L  O  H  A !

I’m here to tell you

That you’ve got

What it takes

The Major Problem

in the world today

is contempt.

I pledge to remain

calm and loving.

Even in the face of it.

I fell in love with Honolulu

When I saw a girl with flowers in her hair

When she gave me her aloha smile

I was glad that I could stay awhile

                    Donald Neil McKay

Live today so richly that

if it is your last 

you're cool with that.

Linking To

Monday Mural

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Love is Us

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With Joy

A  L  O  H  A !

Star lost

in the light of dawn,

trill of the breeze,

warmth, breath—

the night is done.

You are light and morning.

           Cesare Pavese

A single poem, alone

can turn tides

scatter galaxies

and burst forth with rivers

from paradise.

              Sanober Khan

The great sea Has sent me 

adrift It moves me 

As the weed in a great river 

Earth and the great weather 

Move me 

Have carried me away 

And moved my inward parts with joy.

                 Eskimo Song,  Uvavnuk

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Love You!

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Everything Nothing

A  L  O  H  A !

My hopes are not always realized, 

but I always hope.

       Ovid

Willpower is just another name for 

the idea of choosing long-term outcomes 

rather than short-term ones.”

            António R. Damásio

Everything changes

nothing is lost.

                    Ovid

Linked To

Saturday Critters

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Thanks!

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Rest Be Kind

A  L  O  H  A !

 I love the progress

of the day.

Time flies when

we're having fun.

Rest and be kind, you don’t 

have to prove anything. 

                  Jack Kerouac

Don't You love

Morning Noon 

& Night?

I don't feed the birds 

because they need me; 

I feed the birds because 

I need them.

        Kathi Hutton

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Love You!

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Don't Become What You Hate

A  L  O  H  A !

 " 'Resist not evil,' 

for all passionate conflicts 

result in an interchange

 of characteristics."

Neville Goddard

"In spite of the many sins of omission 

and commission against the Indians 

that I had laid at the door of the Municipality, 

I could not help commending it's 

solicitude for the white citizens, and 

I rendered as much help as I could 

in it's laudable efforts." 

              Gandhi ca 1900

"It is my faith, based on experience, 

that if one's heart is pure, 

calamity brings in it's train 

men [sic] and measures to fight it."

                         Gandhi

You cannot police the behavior of others.

But you can choose your own response

if you do not immediately react.

Don't take it personally. Choose.

Buddha was walking with some

traveling companions when an

angry person began yelling and

berating him. Buddha remained

quite calm. At the end of the day,

his friends asked him about the 

incident and received this question:

"If someone gives you something,

and you do not accept it,

who does it belong to?"

Don't make the problems of others

your own! Just keep walking as

you have chosen to do. Do right as

you understand it impartially.

THIS is what changes the world.

Linking To
Thankful Thursday
SkyWatch

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Thanks, Friend!

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