Small Astonishments

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It's that element of surprise. 

When you lose control, 

you discover new things.     

Daniel Lanois

What astonishes astonishes once, 

but what is admirable is 

more and more admired.     

      Joseph Joubert

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. 

Let your tears water the seeds 

of your future happiness. 

Steve Maraboli 

Another Great Bar Closed

Prolong not the past

Invite not the future

Do not alter your innate wakefulness

Fear not appearances

There in nothing more than this.

                         Ram Dass

 O passing angel, speed me with a song, 

a melody of heaven to reach my heart and 

rouse me to the race and make me strong.     

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

Travel Tuesday

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Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

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Here I am in California where we lived for 4 years

Together We Are

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How Nice to See

YOU!

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; 

that true love can endure any circumstance 

and reach across any distance.

             Steve Maraboli

I love living. I love that I’m alive to love my age. 

There are many people who went to bed 

just as I did yesterday evening 

and didn’t wake this morning. 

I love and feel very blessed that I did.

         Maya Angelou

What is coming is better 

than what is gone.

   Arabic Proverb

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AWWW Monday

Accept Flourish

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In the central place of every heart 

there is a recording chamber.  

So long as it receives a message of 

beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – 

so long are you young.  

When the wires are all 

down and our heart is covered with the 

snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, 

then, and only then, are you grown old.

          Douglas MacArthur

Shadow Palms Dialogue

Tension is who you think 

you should be. 

Relaxation is who you are. 

            Chinese Proverb

*Take a slow, deep breath*

Hold for a beat.

Blow out gently through 

an imaginary straw.

Do it twice more.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish 

until you have freed yourself 

from mind dominance.

         Eckhart Tolle

Don't keep searching for the truth, 

just let go of your opinions.

Buddha

The most terrifying thing is

to accept oneself completely. 

           Jung

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But Do It Anyway

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Division Quickly Going Passe`

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We all woke up this morning and 

we had with it the amazing return of 

our conscious mind. We recovered minds 

with a complete sense of self and a 

complete sense of our own existence — yet 

we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

     António R. Damásio

Is there a cat around here?

Someone who loves a neighbor 

allows him to be 

as he is, as he was, 

and as he will be.     

    Michel Quoist 

Rededicate yourself to 

your passionate quests!

We Will Beach Together Again!

Together we can do this. 

Division is quickly going out of style. 

Pull together to build a truly 

better tomorrow for all. 

Don't argue with miserable people. 

Gently move on. At most ask 

the probing question innocently.

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Even As I Travel

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The world sees. The sky hears. 

The universe understands. 

The heavens speak.

      Matshona Dhliwayo

A child can teach an adult three things: 

to be happy for no reason, to 

always be busy with something, and to 

know how to demand with all his might 

that which he desires.

             Paulo Coelho

Star lost

in the light of dawn,

trill of the breeze,

warmth, breath—

the night is done.

You are light and morning.

       Cesare Pavese

The land created me. 

I'm wild and lonesome. 

Even as I travel the cities, 

I'm more at home 

in the vacant lots. 

             Bob Dylan

Visit Hawaii Later. We miss you!

Only in the shattering can 

the rebuilding occur.

Barbara Marciniak

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What You Know in Your Heart

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Walk into the unknown 
with what you know 
in your heart.
         A.D. Posey

A loving heart, determination, faith, 
courage, trust, belief, truth, 
and a solid soul create the 
wings with which we fly.

            A.D. Posey

One day, your light will silence the darkness, 

and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.

 A.D. Posey

I set out to find my peace 

in the skies and the tulips, in

the howling of the winds, 

in the rain under the shed 

and it was right there 

residing within me.

               Suyasha Subedi

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Thankful Thursday

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Spring Thoughts in Distancing

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Smile Down and Wonder

Impassive moon

at the stillness and return

of Nature.

Lessons being learned?

I hope so.

In order for the world

to work and be in order

the world needs wrong

and right to turn on.

Put your shoulder to the wheel,

pull the rope - ring the bell.

Which direction is it moving?

Still too soon to tell.

Remain at home.

Refrain from Hate & Fear.

Every day now, we each shed a tear.

But hear? It is tomorrow,

never tarries, and the packages

that she carries are filling up now.

 By inhabiting richly this moment

 clear a space for better things.

So dry your wings. And dare to think

of soaring on better days.

We have work to do,

but it is righteous work

rebuilding and re-reaching.

Don't focus on problem people

but solutions of love  pour down.

Every circus needs some clowns.

Know such cannot sustain,

they only bring pain.

But together

we Will rise again!

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