When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Charles A. Beard
My take: Ok, I’ve been having fun with these lately, but this one actually says a lot, and I think it’s very important to maybe try to plant this little seed of a reminder: I truly believe you can not know how excessively blessed we all are unless you’ve seen adversity. To everyone it is different. What ever your comfort zone, what ever your tolerance…to go beyond and/or below your personal comfort is the only way to experience how comfortable you ARE. In the case of children specifically, Read more…
During it’s commercials, the makers of Hydrolyze Eye Cream offer a ‘Risk Free Trial’ for the first 100 callers in MY viewing area.
So, A: If you don’t live in MY viewing area, too darn bad for you I guess. Your purchase will be a risk. B: Even though every other company offers a ‘Risk Free Trail’ - also known as a ‘Money Back Guarantee’, Hydrolyze only offers it to the first 100 hundred callers? That’s one way Read more…
You are the man who speaks to me so tender.
You are the man who makes this heart of mine surrender.
You are gentle-
You are kind-
You are the sweetness always on my mind.
In all your goodness, sincerity and honesty, you are the sweetness that life has promised me. Read more…
Every morning the sky shines bright. Another night with you and all in the world is right.
Last night I held you in my dreams all night long. Snuggled up close; hearts in rhythm swaying to a tender song.
The afternoon sun is warm against my cheek. I close my eyes and smile as your hand brushes back my hair. They come back Read more…
Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My take: So basically… we’re screwed?
No no no… Ok, seriously now. It’s like playing a character Read more…
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb
My take: This quote really needs no further expounding. If only Read more…
I’ve learned not to judge. I’ve learned that when you don’t know someone very well… you probably don’t know them at all.
Take for instance any musical superstar. You see them and they have presence, style, poise, grace and confidence. You sing their lyrics and secretly wish you could don their ‘look’. Everything they do is golden.
And then the reality hits and the paparazzi have made millions Read more…
I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
- e.e. cummings
My take: I hear this guy was a brilliant man. So what the heck Read more…
I am the smile that was born in dreams of ‘I Do’.
I am the joy that runs through my every cell since knowing you.
I am the wisdom of a lifetime lived that has come to know true joy.
I am the lass who dreams of the ladd, the girl who loves the boy.
I am the Winter that wraps around autumn’s fall. Read more…
When the stuff hits the fan, it won’t be distributed evenly.
-Unknown
My take: It’s all about Karma baby! You know what I mean… what goes around comes around- and sometimes front and center is NOT the best place to be!
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I love you dearly, and this I think you know. But I wonder if you know the yearning way I want you so.
Like when you are near, how my body awakens and what I want has never been so clear.
Do you know that it’s enough just to think of you and suddenly my sensuality feels brand new.
I breathe deep and close my eyes… I feel you near me as I try to concentrate through excited sighs.
My hands become yours, firm and slow. I’m feeling you feel me and I Read More...
The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them.
- Unknown
My Take: This reminds me of the thought provoking adage, ‘The only difference between medicine and poison is in the dose.’
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
- Chicago Tribune
My Take:
I suppose that’s true for a lot of people, but I happen to love my music and will continue to play it loudly until I’m too old and too short of breath to sing along. So maybe I shall never grow up. And in the mean time I only worry what the neighbors think when I’m blasting Rick Springfield’s Read More...
Have you caught onto the new way in which infomercials are trying to get you to part with your hard earned dollars? It seems to me that it’s all about playing on our expectations.
What comes to mind when you see, ‘30 Day Trial!’? How much would you expect to pay for that?
What!? PAY for a free trial? As if. Then we roll our eyes.
Well, hold on. Nobody actually said it was free! And let me tell you… Read more…
That’s right… my family and I were muggled. But it sounds worse than it really is. It is actually a very common phrase and occurrence heard about often in the world of Geocaching.
(The world of WHAT you ask? Read on to discover, as I have, the Read More...
Don’t let go of the vine.
- Johnny Weissmuller, film’s Tarzan
My Take: I can see why someone would think this is an inspirational quote, but quite frankly I’m kind of surprised it wasn’t ‘Don’t let go of the loin cloth.’
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As I sit at my patio table and gaze out across my backyard, I hear the constant roar of a nearby highway in one ear, and the ever changing rumbling of the main drag through town in the other. It isn’t until I stop to contemplate these things though, that they really come alive to me. Thankfully, I have become accustomed to them on the whole.
Soon I forget about the not so distant ‘noise’ and begin to tune into the children’s laughter Read more…
Your life is so far away- your love I can not touch. Every day is a waiting game and I miss you so much.
My life should be yours, and yours should be mine. But alone with out you I live, just passing time.
Sometimes living for the future means throwing out the present. It’s the lonliest of days… days like today that I begin the descent. Read more…
Dorothy L’s recent article about Child Abuse, published here at Angels, got me thinking a lot. I found myself being able to relate on a specific symptom of child abuse that is too rarely spoken of. Dorothy’s article touched on the emotional chill that abuse victims often develop. I’ve heard this fact before, but reading the article really made me connect with my own issues on the subject.
I’ve always prided myself on my particular ability to remain calm Read more…
You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky
My take: Don’t you think it’s time to up the odds? Even if you aim 20 times, and miss every one, the goal will still be there for the 21st try. It won’t go anywhere and your average certainly won’t go up by sitting out the game. I’m pretty sure I’m plagiarizing someone when I say, Read more…
The wind sneaks up as a welcome relief. It makes us close our use and breathe in deep.
Slowly but surely the breeze empowers it’s self and the branches on the trees begin to put on a show. And suddenly the lapping waves of wind build into a whistling crescendo.
It’s warm yet blustery as we remain- cozy on the porch swing together, and then comes the rain.
A tide of sensations bring us a rush and a thrill. They come over us as we hold on to each other and let Read More...
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
- Pete Seeger
My take: But give me the experience any day!
This is a great point: Education vs. Experience. Should you insist that you child attend college right after high school or do you allow them to back pack across Europe for a year? In my opinion experience is something you just can’t get from a degree. I think this Read More...
When a sleepy sadness settles into my soul… when the stars all hide from a night as dark as coal…
I know I will find my spirit in your arms.
When the goal seems forever out of reach… when frustration chafes like sand on the beach…
I know I will be soothed once in your arms.
When fear and fright send me into flight… and when my battles leave me with no more fight…
I know I will find strength in your arms.
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U R the 1-
the 1 4 me
the only 1 I C
the 1 I drm of
the 1 I luv
bcuz U R 2 good 2 B tru
I hope 4 evr 2 B me + U
I want U 2 luv me N Kiss me
N hold me tite
Pls 4 2nite
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When I was a very young child, poverty was all I knew. I didn’t wish we were rich and I didn’t yearn for the latest toy I seen on T.V. We had no T.V. most of the time. Everything I knew about MY life was just normal life in general for ANYONE as far as I knew. It Read More...
It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.
- Elvis Presley
My take: I’m sure Elvis was a pretty smart person. But any third grader would have been able to deliver this not exactly earth shattering thought. But I guess sometimes it takes iconic larger than life figures to speak to us in ways that the most pie eyed, strar struck people can understand. Thank you, Elvis for Read More...
There are many wayward paths that one can take when searching the world wide web. But even when we stay on the straight and narrow it’s amazing the nuggets of treasure we can stumble upon accidentally. Finding an unexpected humorous bit among the mundane, something Read More...
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
- Lou Holtz
My take: This quote reminds me of my own philosophy on how to let someone know you love them. You can’t just ‘tell them’, you have to show them. Words are a dime a dozen and the easiest way to work your way into or out of any situation, to prove a point, etc. Words take little more than some breath and vocal cord spasms. So if you really Read More...
Sadness is a cloud with no silver lining…
A song with no tune, no chorus, no rhyming…
A promise made in vain on a long cold walk in the misty rain.
When sadness creeps, a smile sleeps… the sun disappears behind blinding tears.
Sadness is something you just can’t shake. This sadness is something I just can’t take.
I’m used to being happy, my heart blissful, joyful and free…but this lonely hopeless feeling has got a Read More...
America is staring in the face of a rare virus known as Swine Flu, and the country from which it is suspected of having taken over a hundred lives still has free moving access to America’s people with nothing but a hand wipe and a face mask if you are lucky.
The words pandemic and epidemic are being tossed around like helium balloons and yet being taken only as seriously. I’m normally one of the last people to encourage panic but it seems that there are times when it is okay to be excessively careful. PEOPLE ARE DYING… why not take PREVENTATIVE measures and begin Read more…
