Biology is the least of what makes someone a Mother. ~Oprah Winfrey Happy, happy birthday, Baby Cakes. ~ Your mother
What It Takes
Mysteries
“Being at ease with the uncertainty and mysteriousness of life is one of the greatest gifts of wisdom.” Deepak Chopra Quoted from Suicide: Finding Hope http://www.suicidefindinghope.com/content/deepak_chopra In honor of our young friend, who ended his life two months ago. RIP.
Optimism
“Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, but the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.” — Billy Graham Bounty from one of many gorgeous offerings in Portland, Oregon’s Rose Garden, 2013.
Retirement–Day 9–Lessons From My Cat
It’s Retirement–Day 9–and while my body understands what happened, I’ve noticed a cerebral hitch in my get-along. I can’t relax. I’m wound up tighter than a __________. You may fill in the blank. Be kind. I’ve mentally cut people off this past week. I’m not sorry. I want them to stop talking. I’m nearly choking…
Little Bits
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” — Desmond Tutu
Pristine
“Purity, uncorrupted, unsullied.” So much more than its definition, I fail to create one better. PRISTINE (adjective) 1. having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied. 2. of or relating to the earliest period or state; primitive. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pristine
finding merle 