Don\’t stop your dream

Don\’t stop Writing these notes is very therapeutic for me. I look for a quote that most resonates with my thoughts and feelings and when it zings – I know I\’ve found it. Almost every day I need to give myself a pep talk to keep going with my puzzle books and other things. Sometimes […]

Carrying ideas into action

Enthusiasm I have a book by Norman Vincent Peale that I take out and read periodically. It is called, Enthusiasm Makes the Difference. For me enthusiasm needs nurturing to keep it burning. And while I do agree a definite plan carrying one\’s idea into action is necessary I find I need to work at keeping […]

Your life\’s purpose

Find your gift This is the first time that I have read this quote by William Shakespeare. I\’ve definitely heard a hundred different versions of it I suppose but somehow it takes on more power and meaning attributing it to William Shakespeare. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life […]

Sunny Disposition

Happy just because Love these cute little puppies having such fun on a nice green lawn. It\’s spring and the sun is shining and what more could one ask? Right now I am jumping from one butterfly moment to the next. This could be a bad thing or you know it could be just be […]

Rainbow Makers

Try to be a rainbow I have never read a complete book of Maya\’s poems but the bits and pieces I have read I have liked. This one seems especially nice. When I think about it there have been many people who have been rainbow makers for me. Starting with my parents of course, my […]

Giving with Kindness

Giving with Kindness It is not so much what we give but how we give that matters the most. I have been embarrassed and humiliated by some gifts I have received. Whether the feelings gendered were real or imagined the gifts felt burdensome. Like I was obligated to be grateful. As if I was somehow […]

Astound Yourself

If we all did the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.Thomas Edison What we have done I think it is only in looking back that we see that the things we have done are remarkable. In the doing of them we are pretty much just scrambling to keep afloat. […]