Reflective Moment

Simplicity Pledge

A    L    O    H    A  !

You couldn't just pick and choose at will 

when someone depended on you, 

or loved you. 

It wasn't like a light switch, 

easy to turn on or off. 

If you were in, you were in. 

Out, you were out.

           Sarah Dessen

Strange how complicated 

we can make things just 

to avoid showing 

what we feel!

        Erich Maria Remarque

“It is not so long ago that a member of the Diplomatic Body in London, who had spent some years of his service in China, told me that there was a Chinese curse which took the form of saying, ‘May you live in interesting times.’ There is no doubt that the curse has fallen on us.”

“We move from one crisis to another. We suffer one disturbance and shock after another.”

                            Sir Austen Chamberlain, 

addressing the annual meeting of Birmingham Unionist Association

March, 1936

The most complicated skill

is to be simple.

 Dejan Stojanovic

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Chocolate-Covered Shaman

A    L    O    H    A  !

Flying Pig

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, 

an ass and a nightingale. 

Diversity of character is due to 

their unequal activity.

        Ambrose Bierce

As I have practiced it, photography produces 

pleasure by simplicity. I see something special 

and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. 

The moment is held until someone sees it. 

Then it is theirs. 

               Sam Abell

Lions don't have to roar. 

There is power in silence, 

confidence, and persistence. 

Those who work don't talk, and 

those who talk don't work. 

Handle your business.    

            Les Brown

Being Wise Is Not Believing 

Everything You Think

           Donna A. Favors 

I'm a lion too!

You are a chocolate shaman, Pixie!

I love cats because I enjoy my home; 

and little by little, they become its visible soul.

 Jean Cocteau

Linking To

Our World Tuesday

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

Travel Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

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Become People

A    L    O    H    A  !

Presiding Angel

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake 

of dreaming that I am persecuted 

whenever I am contradicted.

                  Emerson

When you start 

treating people like people, 

they become people.

             Paul Vitale

Where Have I Seen This Before?

“Mingle often with good people to 

keep your soul nourished.

Anthony Douglas Williams

Oh Yes!  Here:

"Church Windows" by WELS.net is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 

The good life is a process, 

not a state of being. 

It is a direction 

not a destination.

             Carl Rogers

This time, like all times,

is a very good one,

if we but know what

to do with it.

              Emerson

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Promise

A    L    O    H    A   !

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No matter how long the winter, 

spring is sure to follow.

        Proverb

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

        Thomas Blackburn

Science has never drummed up 

quite as effective a tranquilizing agent

as a sunny spring day.

W. Earl Hall

In Spring, everything is full of promise.... 

The child sporting upon the lawn, and 

the season, sympathize together, and 

nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness.

            Charles Lanman, 

                 "The Dying Year," 1840

Linking To

Saturday Critters
Monday Murals

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Answering Passion

A   L   O   H   A  !

Right now, someone you haven’t met is 

out there wondering what it would be like 

to meet someone like you.

               Unknown

We need old friends to help us grow old 

and new friends to help us stay young.

         Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is an energy field between humans. 

And, when we reach out in passion, 

it is met with an answering passion 

and changes the relationship forever.

        Rollo May

Reflecting on Northern California Memories

“Love is the only force capable of 

transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

Linking To

Weekend Reflections 

Skywatch

Floral Friday

Feline Friday

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Just The Way You Are

A   L   O   H   A  !

Come walk with me around Honolulu's

 McCully/Waikiki Neighborhood- link

You've made this day a special day, 

by just your being you. There's 

no person in the whole world like you, 

and I like you just the way you are.

              Fred Rogers

Be grateful for luck. 

Pay the thunder no mind - 

listen to the birds. 

And don't hate nobody.

       Eubie Blake

I never approve, or disapprove, 

of anything now. 

It is an absurd attitude 

to take towards life. 

We are not sent into the world to 

air our moral prejudices.  

            Oscar Wilde

If you can spend a perfectly 

useless afternoon, in a 

perfectly useless manner, 

you have learned how to live.

         Lin Yutang

Linking To
Thankful Thursday

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