What fear?

January 9, 2016

Like a three year old going down the slide for the first time….there is fear. But fear is an imposter….after the first successful trip it fades away like a leaf in November.

Silence

January 7, 2016

“We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for — sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm. As a matter of fact, one […]

Footprints

January 6, 2016

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same. Anonymous

Easy does it

January 5, 2016

Now I don’t know about you but here’s hoping Karen has a sound heart and non slip shoes.

Serenity

January 5, 2016

Keep close to Nature’s heart…break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir

Dreamland

January 5, 2016

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. Leo J. Burke

Shine

January 5, 2016

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine. Dwight L. Moody

Beauty

January 5, 2016

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats

The Glow

January 3, 2016

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” Helen Keller

Heaven sent

January 3, 2016

Before you were born, We dreamed of you….we imagined you….we prayed for you. Now that you are here, We hope for you….we pray for you….we thank God for you. Anonymous

Hide and Seek

January 3, 2016

‘You humans are so arrogant at times. It’s long past time that you acknowledge the fact that it was us sea otters who invented hide and seek.’ Photo by Laura Vais

How long?

January 2, 2016

Who knows how many hours you’ve been allotted to smell the flowers?

Smile

January 2, 2016

Life is good when your best friend loves jamming with the air guitar.

Power

January 2, 2016

You were not born to hope that there’d be a free pass to first base. No, you are meant to dig in, stare steely-eyed at life, and swing for the fences. How else will you realize the power and potential He gave you.

I dare you

January 1, 2016

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Ice Cream

December 31, 2015

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Anonymous

Risk

December 31, 2015

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk. Roslyn Carter

The Present

December 30, 2015

“We humans spend an inordinate amount of time in the future or in the past, and so miss out on the gifts of the present: the presents of the present, so to speak.” From the Mindful Golfer by Stephen Altschuler

Hide and Seek

December 30, 2015

You can have your hockey and baseball….and lacrosse. Hide and seek is my favorite pastime and this might be the best hiding place ever.

Priorities

December 28, 2015

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Stephen Covey