Happy Thursday

I believe that everything happens for a reason.People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate when they are okay, believe the lies because then you learn not to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things go to pieces because the best things can happen. 

(Marilyn Monroe)


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☆ ▒░ ☆ ☆♥ Blessed with the best ♥☆ ♥☆░▒ ☆
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“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”
— Drew Barrymore

Beautiful story…..A very poor man lived with his wife. One day, his wife, who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed. The man felt very sorry and said no. He explained that he did not even have enough money to fix the strap of his watch he had just broken. She did not insist on her request. The man went to work and passed by a watch shop, sold his damaged watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife. He came home in the evening with the comb in his hand ready to give to his wife. He was surprised when he saw his wife with a very short hair cut. She had sold her hair and was holding a new watch band. Tears flowed simultaneously from their eyes, not for the futility of their actions, but for the reciprocity of their love. MORAL: To love is nothing, to be loved is something but to love and to be loved by the one you love,that is EVERYTHING. Never take love for granted.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfEw44cVJvY
So sweet
"Life is a miracle. YOU are a unique expression of this purposeful miracle. Think of how GREAT that makes you. 

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✿.*.¸.*¨`*•✿ You can't touch friendship, but You can feel the Loveliness that it Sprinkles into the Heart Every Day! 

Beautiful Kim Yuna


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BFF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipnGPeRIy2k

This is so sweet..................100 year old BFF

Happy Wednesday

"Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished." ~ A.D. Williams

"We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy." ~ A.D. Williams

May the Miracle of Peace Live in You May the Miracle of Love Flow through You May the Miracle of Light Illuminate your Path All the days of Your Life... ~ Julie Parker



Spread love wherever you go.
Let no one ever come to you,
Without leaving happier.

~ Mother Theresa

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☆ ▓▒░☆ HAVE A SUPER ☆ WEDNESDAY ☆ ▓▒░☆
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May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you, Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.


Amish Potatoe Salad

for the salad:

12 to 15 smallish brown or red potatoes

1 small, yellow onion, chopped fine

1/2 cup red bell pepper, chopped

1/2 cup yellow bell pepper, chopped

1/2 cup carrots, chopped

6 hard boiled eggs, cooled, peeled and chopped

Boil potatoes for 20 minutes, or until just tender enough to easily pierce with a fork. Drain, cool completely and peel. Cut into big chunks and place in a big mixing bowl along with the onion, bell pepper, carrot and eggs.

for the dressing:

1 and 1/2 cups real mayonnaise

1/2 cup white sugar

3 Tablespoons sweet pickle relish

1 Tablespoon prepared yellow mustard

2 to 3 Tablespoons white vinegar

2 to 3 teaspoons paprika

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

a couple dashes cayenne pepper

Combine all dressing ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Using a wire whisk, whisk until combined and smooth. Pour over the salad ingredients and gently fold into salad until evenly combined. Adjust ingredients to reach desired consistency and flavor. Cover and chill completely before serving.

Enjoy!

http://www.chindeep.com/2013/07/22/harmony-farm-amish-potato-salad/

Recipe from this fabulous blog
Thank you 

Embrace your bliss and don't forget to sing and dance

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”

~ Angeles Arrien, Anthropologist

God loves it when we sing and dance and celebrate our joy of life

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As I stumble through this life,
help me to create more laughter than tears.
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Never let me become so indifferent,
that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a
child.
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Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer
people,
make them forget, at least momentarily,
the unpleasantness in their lives.
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and in my final moment, may I hear You whisper:
"When you made My people smile, you made Me
smile."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxATcFhbfcw
Imagine driving down this road?

China's Atlantis

A maze of white temples, memorial arches, paved roads, and houses... hidden 130 feet underwater: this is China's real-life Atlantis.
The so-called Lion City, tucked in a lake between the Five Lion Mountain, was once Shi Cheng - the centre of politics and economics in the eastern province of Zhejiang.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561147/Chinas-Atlantis-How-Lion-City-purposely-flooded-make-way-power-station-remains-completely-intact-130ft-underwater-50-years.html#ixzz2tfkcoqVJ 

Family Day

Happy Family Day

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A beautiful creation by my lovely friend Dani.

Happy Family Day here in Canada.  Every day is family day.

Cherish the ones you love..................

It all begins and ends with family.
X0X0

Golden moments of life come full circle

top photograph my Son Justin eating a piece of his first birthday cake

December 28, 1979

and bottom photograph Logan eating off his tray

December 2012

Life is a circle game and consists of a thousand tiny miracles♥♥

These photographs melt my heart

Thank you Ahram and Justin for sharing many beautiful photographs

with me and all the story of your lives shared in so much love♥

There is only one happiness in love to love and be loved and to cherish your family.
X0X0


You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  ~Desmond Tutu


When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.  ~Joyce Brothers


Having a place to go - is a home.  Having someone to love - is a family.  Having both - is a blessing.  ~Donna Hedges

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


We are family  you know how much I love Justin Wu videos and music

Life is precious, Time is precious ♥
Live each day to the fullest and share the joy and love in your heart while you can =)

Family faces are magic mirrors

Love knows no distance to all my loved ones in far away places I love you 

I miss you 

Happy Family day whether near or far we love you and you are in our hearts always


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Being a famil means you are a part of something very wonderful it means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life no matter what.

Family faces are magic mirrors

Sitting at the foot of the bodhi tree on the night when he realized the truth, the Buddha discovered something which is very surprising to him and to us. He saw that the good, the beautiful and the true are to be found in everyone. But very few people know that. People think that the true, the beautiful, and the good exist somewhere else, it is in someone else. They do not know that in the deep levels of themselves there is the true, the beautiful, and the good. And because we are not able to be in touch with these things, the good, the beautiful, and the true, in ourselves, we have the feeling that we lack something, that we are a saucepan without a lid. And the whole of our life we are looking for someone else to replace that lack. How strange, all living beings have the fully awakened nature, but none of them know it. And because of that they drift and sink from lifetime to lifetime in the great ocean of Samara, in suffering. And that is what the Buddha said the moment when he realized the path.

And so when we are able to recognize that in us there is the essence of the good, the beautiful and the true, we will be able to stop going in search. We will stop feeling that we lack something and we will stop running around in the world, in the universe looking for something. The truth is that we return to ourselves in order to be in touch with the good, beautiful and true that are in us. And at the moment we are in touch with those things, we are able to stop wandering around feeling we lack something. And we are able to stop deceiving others. We don’t have to adorn ourselves, make ourselves up any more, because we have discovered the true, the beautiful, and the good right here within us.

Thich Nhat Hanh

All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten

~ All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten ~

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

~ Robert Lee Fulghum "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." Ballantine Books, 2003 (1986, 1988)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

May you be filled with loving kindness.

May you be well.

May you be peaceful and at ease.

May you be happy.

ancient - tibetan buddhist - blessing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezaBqCf0hv0

Calls of the owls

My Joy

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My year round sweetheart

Blessed
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by you 

When I saw you I fell in love, 


and you smiled because you 


knew. 



William Shakespeare

Life is a collection of moments of love

pieced together by blessings that

fill the heart with so much joy♥

My pride my joy my baby boy 

grandson Logan



YOU make my heart ☼SMILE☼ 
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Every day is perfect for Love

Every day is just perfect for love ~ Rumi 

The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return♥

To be happy in life love each other well

Happy Valentine's Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WYjNrDKYwQ

Happy Valentine's Day

I love this Valentine segment from Mad Men
and I love the song
Song of India
by David Carbonara

Love is all you need♥


A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

~ C. Haliburton ~

Remember: “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”--Charles Schulz

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share inyour excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

~ Bob Marley ~

valentine food for the thought

Cabbage always has a heart;

Green beans string along.

You're such a cute tomato,

Will you peas to me belong?

You've been the apple of my eye,

You know how much i care;

So lettuce get together,

We'd make a perfect pear.



Now, something's sure to turnip

To prove you can't be beet;

So, if you carrot all for me

Let's let our tulips meet.

Dont squash my hopes and dreams noe,

Bee my honey, dear,

Or tears will fill potato's eyes

While sweet corn lends an ear.



I'll cauliflower shop and say

Your dreams are parsley mine.

I'll work and share my celery,

So be my valentine. 

Lolita Hiroshi

Be mine Valentine

Love you