The language of kindness
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.\” Mark Twain An over the top super, wonderful weekend. A spur of the moment family get together at our house. Two from Seattle area and two from Oregon and that made six fun folks (and […]
Life is an experiment
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.\” Ralph Waldo Emerson Today I read a great blog post from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.com. It was about setting goals for a blog but coming at it from the readers perspective. In the post […]
You never know until you try
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”You never know what you can do until you try.\” C. S. Lewis It\’s amazing really how our mindset is about some things. Impossible things or at least what we tell ourselves are impossible things. The rest of the quote by Lewis I think is a bit negative – […]
One of the nicest things you can have
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.\” Winnie the Pooh I just finished vacuuming. Yea for me. It\’s very funny but no matter how much work I do on the puzzle books or other computery things […]
No strangers here
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven\’t yet met.\” William Butler Yeats Here\’s the thing I have noticed this year about some of the email that comes in my box. Everyone (well at least a lot) of it is from people telling me they have the secret […]
Friendship improves happiness
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”Friendship improves happiness\” Marcus Tullius Cicero I just thought of a good idea for a movie. What if (think Twilight Zone here) after you died the only people you spend eternity with are those you become friends with while living. Wouldn\’t that make a whole shift on what was […]
Friends are like that
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.\” Arnold H Glasgow I should have started this earlier in the day, but I decided to do a few other things first. So then, here we are, late and not done. Tomorrow I will […]
Create your future with a dream
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo New Year and I had some serious thoughts about eating better as soon as the clock struck midnight on December 31st . . . but I just put a cinnamon cake in the oven . . . […]
Hope is the mountain mover
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: \”Everything that is done in this world is done by Hope. Martin Luther I am a strong, strong believer in the value of hope. I don\’t think it gets enough attention as to how valuable a factor it is. Of course it is one of the big three in […]
Optimism and faith
Subscribe to these notes Today’s Sunshine: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller This picture reminds me intensely of a small kitten we had growing up. It had an accident in which its head was hurt. At first we didn\’t think it would survive […]