. . . and to you this day . . .

This is a true story in which sunshine, my lovely husband and a little James Taylor manage to save me once again. I can feel myself thinning not so much as to say I may be losing weight but rather,…
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“The faster we run, the more determined is the Universe to slow us down. The more embedded our methods of self-distraction, the more agitating the truth-aches calling us back to authenticity. The more eagerly we race to the sky, the…
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“Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.” ~ Marius Vieth

“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the…
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Recently I was introduced to a young woman, by a friend, “She’s a writer, my friend says she writes beee-yoo-ti-full things” (my lovely friend, has had a bit to drink) “Oh yeah, says the young woman clearly unimpressed, whatd’you write?”…
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I don’t spend a lot of time with mirrors not the usual kind any way I suppose some days, there are things you’d rather not see extra little lines and creases time’s tiny little footprints making their tracks across your…
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“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

Some days the lessons just keep coming… This morning I rise early, I have a birthday cake to make.  There was a time when my kids were younger, I spent considerable time making elaborate birthday cakes the night before.  But…
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Too many cool rainy days In a row can start to wear a person low last night I go to bed feeling a little less than civil consequently my sleep is disturbed and this morning once again the dog decides…
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I have a very strong aversion to the telephone. If you know me, possibly you already know this. Really if it didn’t sound rude, my voicemail message would say – don’t call me, because I probably won’t call you ……
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