Every Time I'm Out In Nature ~ I Become More and More Enlightened


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"Imagine" - (THIS is what I'd call a real Christmas song)


"Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world..."

~John Lennon

Check-Out "Imagine" on Dolly Parton's New Album ~ by clicking here to I-Tunes

2 Good Questions; 2 Good Answers


1. What makes you most happy about the world?
My wife and kids

2. What makes you most sad about the world?
Unfairness, unnecessary suffering

This person had some good priorities.

What would YOUR good answers be?

Everyone Needs A Home


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Put your hand over your heart and
recall a beautiful feeling or time in your life.

Angel Rays


In Loving Memory of Helen Bruetsch ~ A very special lady who meant a lot to me and who died this week at the age of 89.

"The road you've known
That takes you home
Is waiting strong and true.
For this child of mine
She'll forever shine.
Angel rays
Watch over you."

(lyrics from "Angel Rays" by Gemma Hayes)

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Good For All Seasons ~ Our Intentions for Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Others


"What wisdom can we find that is greater than kindness?" ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

"I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now and not defer or neglect it as I shall not pass this way again." ~ William Penn

"...Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy." ~ St. Francis of Assisi

"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." ~ Jill Jackson

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Eternal


"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and glowing." ~ John Muir

Words


Words can be beautiful
and words can be cruel.
Words can make your heart break
and render you a fool.

Words can make you feel
and words can help you heal.
And, words can also
be a "trickster's" tool.

We're not too careful with our words.
We use them as we please.
But, words can seem like life or death
to those who are like me.

Kind words help us finish
the good things that we start.
But, bad words hurt forever
our unsuspecting heart.

~ Patty Ann Smith

The Music


from Ludwig van Beethoven:

Music is...a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Keith Urban (one of my "gurus":))
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