Leap Year



In Love with HOT PINK

Today is an ephemeral ghost...
A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."
In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune u...p!
But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...
A day of unlocked potential.
Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you?
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”
~Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Learning

There is divine beauty in learning. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

~Elie Wiesel

Inspiration for this Monday

http://www.godvine.com/Girl-With-No-Fingers-Plays-the-Piano-Beautifully-310.html

Have a fabulous start to a fabulous week♥

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
~J. Brotherton

http://life.time.com/culture/lifes-best-oscar-photos/#1

Happy Sunday

“Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation…
…we'll all still feel it.
Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.” —Yehuda Berg

Hooray for Hollywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMv4P_IJ29I

I will be watching the Academy Awards tomorrow night.

Enjoy your weekend my darlings

Have a glorious weekend

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0

Have a glorious weekend.  I am looking forward to relaxing this weekend
and watching the academy awards on Sunday evening.

How about you what are your fabulous plans?

On the Road to Spring and Happy Family Day

My beautiful friend Dani has been creating her Magic once again.

This is one of my favs.

Asian themed and blossoms of spring.

Oh it calls to me more than you will ever know.

I love you Dani.

Thanks for all the beauty you share.

Happy Family Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvvJOg6jXI

Anyway

This poem is engraved on the wall of
Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, and is called "Do it Anyway"

The poem is a variation on the Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Smith

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis
it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

 

and this link was posted on Facebook by my dear friend Dani

As we begin Lent soon

 

This may be beneficial to read

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2012/02/homily-for-february-19-2012-7th-sunday-in-ordinary-time/

Thankful

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a Home ♥ I am thankful for the pile of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. ~Nancie J Carmody~

So thankful my husbands eye surgery went very well yesterday.
We are on our way to the doctors soon for his check up.

Have a gorgeous Saturday.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and soon I will be walking down the path of Spring♥
I cannot wait

A Man in a metro station

By: Josh Nonnenmocher

 

This is so awesome. Please take a moment to read:

A man sat at a metro station... in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?See More

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

http://chefartsmith.net/press/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PEOPLE-2.20.12-Lady-Gaga.pdf
This recipe is one I hope to try.


In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

This afternoon when I go to the library I shall have to enquire about this book.

Looks interesting.

Happy Thursday♥

A good Life

As seen on Pinterest

Love quotes by Children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfvuJr9164

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMgUlO0Btho

 

 

Love and Marriage:

• "If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." -- Glenn, age 7
• "Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life." -- John, age 9
• "I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful." -- Manuel, age 8
• "No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular." -- Mae, age 9
• "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." -- Greg, age 8
• "Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." -- Tom, age 5
• "On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date." -- Mike, 10
• "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when Dinosaurs is on television." -- Jill, age 6
• "One of the people has freckles, and so he finds somebody else who has freckles too." -- Andrew, age 6
• "My mother says to look for a man who is kind. That's what I'll do. I'll find somebody who's kinda tall and handsome." -- Carolyn, age 8
• "It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble." -- Kenny, age 7
• "One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." -- Ava, age 8
• "When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get divorced.'" -- Anita, 9
• "I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." -- Regina, age 10
• "Most men are brainless, so you might have to try more than once to find a live one." -- Angie, age 10
• "A man and a woman promise to go through sickness and illness and diseases together." -- Marlon, age 10
• "[Being] single is better . . . for the simple reason that I wouldn't want to change no diapers. Of course, if I did get married, I'd figure something out. I'd just phone my mother and have her come over for some coffee and diaper-changing." -- Kirsten, age 10
• "Love is foolish...but I still might try it sometime." -- Floyd, age 9
• "Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." -- Dave, age 8

---

Kissing:

• "When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down, and they don't get up for at least an hour." -- Wendy, age 8
• "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." -- Jim, age 10
• "Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours." -- Kally, age 9
• "You learn [how to kiss] right on the spot when the gooshy feelings get the best of you." -- Doug, age 7
• "If it's your mother, you can kiss her anytime. But if it's a new person, you have to ask permission." -- Roger, age 6
• "It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you. That's why I stopped doing it." -- Tammy, age 10
• "I know one reason kissing was created. It makes you feel warm all over, and they didn't always have electric heat or fireplaces or even stoves in their houses." -- Gina, age 8
• "The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." -- Curt, age 7
• "The rules goes like this: if you kiss someone, then you should marry her and have kids with her. It's the right thing to do." -- Howard, age 8
• (on seeing a couple kissing) "He is trying to steal her chewing gum!" -- Boy, age 6

---

Beauty:

• "If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." -- Anita, age 8
• "Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." -- Christine, age 9
• "It isn't always how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything, and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." -- Brian, age 7

---

How People In Love Act:

• "Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food." -- Brad, age 8
• "They act mooshy. Like puppy dogs, except puppy dogs don't wag their tails nearly as much." -- Arnold, age 10
• "All of a sudden, the people get movies fever so they can sit together in the dark." -- Sherm, age 8
• "Romantic adults usually are all dressed up, so if they are just wearing jeans it might mean they used to go out or they just broke up." -- Sarah, age 9
• "It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like how their hearts are -- on fire." -- Christine, age 9
• "See if the man picks up the check. That's how you can tell if he's in love." -- John, age 9
• "Many daters just eat pork chops and french fries and talk about love." -- Craig, age 9

---

What Mom and Dad Have In Common:

• "Both don't want no more kids." -- Lori, age 8

---

How To Tell If Two People Are Married:

• "Married people usually look happy to talk to other people." -- Eddie, age 6
• "You might have to guess based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids." -- Derrick, age 8

---

Deciding Who To Marry:

• "You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming." -- Allan, age 10
• "No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." -- Kirsten, age 10

---

Strategies For Making People Fall In Love With You:

• "Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." -- Del, age 6
• "Shake your hips and hope for the best." -- Camille, age 9
• "Yell out that you love them at the top of your lungs...and don't worry if their parents are right there." -- Manuel, age 8
• "Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love." -- Alonzo, age 9
• "One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually works for me." -- Bart, age 9

---

The Best Age To Get Married:

• "Twenty three is the best age because you know the person forever by then." -- Cam, age 10
• "No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married!" -- Freddie, age 6

---

Good Advice About Love:

• "Spend most of your time loving instead of going to work." -- Dick, age 7
• "Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough." -- Lynnette, age 8
• "Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck!" -- Ricky, age 7
• "Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love." -- Erin, age 8
• "Sensitivity don't hurt." -- Robbie, age 8
• "Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8
• "Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind. Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch." -- Natalie, age 9

---

What To Do When a First Date Turns Sour:

• "I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." -- Craig, age 9

---

What Most People Are Thinking When They Say "I Love You":

• "The person is thinking: 'Yeah, I really do love him. But I hope he showers at least once a day.'" -- Michelle, age 9
• "Some lovers might be real nervous, so they are glad that they finally got it out and said it, and now they can go eat." -- Dick, age 7

---

Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:

• "They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8
• "They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." -- John, age 9

---

Titles of Love Ballads You Can Sing To Your Loved One:

• "'I Love Hamburgers, I Like You!'" -- Eddie, age 6
• "'You Are My Darling Even Though You Also Know My Sister.'" -- Larry, age 8
• "'I Am In Love With You Most of the Time, But Don't Bother Me When I'm With My Friends.'" -- Bob, age 9
• "'How Do I Love Thee When You're Always Picking Your Nose?'" -- Arnold, age 10
• "'Honey, I Got Your Curly Hair and Your Nintendo On My Mind.'" -- Sharon, age 9
• "'Hey, Baby, I Don't Like Girls, But I'm Willing To Forget You Are One!'" -- Will, age 7

Love quotes by Children

Love and Marriage:

• "If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." -- Glenn, age 7
• "Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life." -- John, age 9
• "I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful." -- Manuel, age 8
• "No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular." -- Mae, age 9
• "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." -- Greg, age 8
• "Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." -- Tom, age 5
• "On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date." -- Mike, 10
• "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when Dinosaurs is on television." -- Jill, age 6
• "One of the people has freckles, and so he finds somebody else who has freckles too." -- Andrew, age 6
• "My mother says to look for a man who is kind. That's what I'll do. I'll find somebody who's kinda tall and handsome." -- Carolyn, age 8
• "It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble." -- Kenny, age 7
• "One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." -- Ava, age 8
• "When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get divorced.'" -- Anita, 9
• "I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." -- Regina, age 10
• "Most men are brainless, so you might have to try more than once to find a live one." -- Angie, age 10
• "A man and a woman promise to go through sickness and illness and diseases together." -- Marlon, age 10
• "[Being] single is better . . . for the simple reason that I wouldn't want to change no diapers. Of course, if I did get married, I'd figure something out. I'd just phone my mother and have her come over for some coffee and diaper-changing." -- Kirsten, age 10
• "Love is foolish...but I still might try it sometime." -- Floyd, age 9
• "Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." -- Dave, age 8

---

Kissing:

• "When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down, and they don't get up for at least an hour." -- Wendy, age 8
• "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." -- Jim, age 10
• "Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours." -- Kally, age 9
• "You learn [how to kiss] right on the spot when the gooshy feelings get the best of you." -- Doug, age 7
• "If it's your mother, you can kiss her anytime. But if it's a new person, you have to ask permission." -- Roger, age 6
• "It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you. That's why I stopped doing it." -- Tammy, age 10
• "I know one reason kissing was created. It makes you feel warm all over, and they didn't always have electric heat or fireplaces or even stoves in their houses." -- Gina, age 8
• "The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." -- Curt, age 7
• "The rules goes like this: if you kiss someone, then you should marry her and have kids with her. It's the right thing to do." -- Howard, age 8
• (on seeing a couple kissing) "He is trying to steal her chewing gum!" -- Boy, age 6

---

Beauty:

• "If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." -- Anita, age 8
• "Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." -- Christine, age 9
• "It isn't always how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything, and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." -- Brian, age 7

---

How People In Love Act:

• "Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food." -- Brad, age 8
• "They act mooshy. Like puppy dogs, except puppy dogs don't wag their tails nearly as much." -- Arnold, age 10
• "All of a sudden, the people get movies fever so they can sit together in the dark." -- Sherm, age 8
• "Romantic adults usually are all dressed up, so if they are just wearing jeans it might mean they used to go out or they just broke up." -- Sarah, age 9
• "It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like how their hearts are -- on fire." -- Christine, age 9
• "See if the man picks up the check. That's how you can tell if he's in love." -- John, age 9
• "Many daters just eat pork chops and french fries and talk about love." -- Craig, age 9

---

What Mom and Dad Have In Common:

• "Both don't want no more kids." -- Lori, age 8

---

How To Tell If Two People Are Married:

• "Married people usually look happy to talk to other people." -- Eddie, age 6
• "You might have to guess based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids." -- Derrick, age 8

---

Deciding Who To Marry:

• "You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming." -- Allan, age 10
• "No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." -- Kirsten, age 10

---

Strategies For Making People Fall In Love With You:

• "Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." -- Del, age 6
• "Shake your hips and hope for the best." -- Camille, age 9
• "Yell out that you love them at the top of your lungs...and don't worry if their parents are right there." -- Manuel, age 8
• "Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love." -- Alonzo, age 9
• "One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually works for me." -- Bart, age 9

---

The Best Age To Get Married:

• "Twenty three is the best age because you know the person forever by then." -- Cam, age 10
• "No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married!" -- Freddie, age 6

---

Good Advice About Love:

• "Spend most of your time loving instead of going to work." -- Dick, age 7
• "Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough." -- Lynnette, age 8
• "Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck!" -- Ricky, age 7
• "Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love." -- Erin, age 8
• "Sensitivity don't hurt." -- Robbie, age 8
• "Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8
• "Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind. Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch." -- Natalie, age 9

---

What To Do When a First Date Turns Sour:

• "I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." -- Craig, age 9

---

What Most People Are Thinking When They Say "I Love You":

• "The person is thinking: 'Yeah, I really do love him. But I hope he showers at least once a day.'" -- Michelle, age 9
• "Some lovers might be real nervous, so they are glad that they finally got it out and said it, and now they can go eat." -- Dick, age 7

---

Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:

• "They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8
• "They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." -- John, age 9

---

Titles of Love Ballads You Can Sing To Your Loved One:

• "'I Love Hamburgers, I Like You!'" -- Eddie, age 6
• "'You Are My Darling Even Though You Also Know My Sister.'" -- Larry, age 8
• "'I Am In Love With You Most of the Time, But Don't Bother Me When I'm With My Friends.'" -- Bob, age 9
• "'How Do I Love Thee When You're Always Picking Your Nose?'" -- Arnold, age 10
• "'Honey, I Got Your Curly Hair and Your Nintendo On My Mind.'" -- Sharon, age 9
• "'Hey, Baby, I Don't Like Girls, But I'm Willing To Forget You Are One!'" -- Will, age 7

Love is

To my Fabulous Husband on our 18th Wedding Anniversary today.
Thank you for loving me so well and all the love and laughter
and happiness and joy.

Love is...

being happy for the other person

when they are happy

being sad for the person

when they are sad

being together in good times

and being together in bad times

Love is the source of strength

Love is...

being honest with yourself at all times

being honest with the other person at all times

telling, listening, respecting the truth

and never pretending

Love is the source of reality

Love is...

an understanding so complete that

you feel as if you are a part

of the other person

accepting the other person

just the way they are

and not trying to change them

to be something else

Love is the source of unity

Love is...

the freedom to pursue your own desires

while sharing your experiences

with the other person

the growth of one individual alongside of

and together with the growth

of another individual

Love is the source of success

Love is...

the excitement of planning things together

the excitement of doing things together

Love is the source of the future

Love is...

the fury of the storm

the calm in the rainbow

Love is the source of passion

Love is...

giving and taking in a daily situation

being patient with each other

needs and desires

Love is the source of sharing

Love is..

knowing that the other person

will always be with you

regardless of what happens

missing the other person when they are away

but remaining near in heart at all times

Love is the source of security

Love is..

the

source

of

life



- Poem by Susan Polis Schutz  It is also our beautiful daughter in lawsbirthday today AhramWe love you♥May Heaven hear your every wish.

Each Day I am Thankful For

EACH DAY I AM THANKFUL FOR
NIGHTS That Turned Into Morning
FRIENDS That Turned Into Family
DREAMS That Turned Into Reality
AND LIKES THAT TURNED INTO
 ♥ L O V E *♥

And I am ever thankful for all of you.

It is another gorgeous spring like day out there.............

I'm walking on sunshine♥http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNqaLhRBecE and loving this Sade Remix
Love Love Love Sade

I loved Madonna's half time show

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/293532/20120206/video-photos-madonna-super-bowl-halftime-show.htm

I love the new starbucks LOVE themed cups they serve your coffee in.

Share the LOVE

Love is all you need♥

February Afternoon

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets, that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon♥
Constance Spry

I am really enjoying the balmy Spring like days.

For the first time since my Son has been in Seoul, South Korea,
they have closed his school where he teaches due to bitter cold weather.

A belated
Rabbit Rabbit
and extreme good luck for this month♥