Looking Back on the Days Gone By | Gratitude
“The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back … well, it amounts to everything.” ~ Ray Bradbury
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
12 Months of Balanced Flow | Word of the Year (WOTY) 2022
“Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!” — SirTerry Pratchett Squaring back to the quote by British satirist, humorist and novelist;…
Truly a Grand, Golden Birthday
“My life is better with every year of living it.” ~ Rachel Maddo “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” ~ Larry Lorenzoni
The Long Weekend – Getaway – Part I
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” Bill Watterson
6 Months of Balanced Flow: Word of the Year 2022
“I am rooted, but I flow.” – Virginia Woolf Six Months of “Balanced Flow”
Thankful Thursday
The last few days have been awry and gloomy. I’m so glad for this opportunity to count the blessings around me, Thanks Brian for this prompt. I’m thankful: 1. My father and in- laws are safe and sound in this long Covid lockdown. Though my in-laws did get Covid, and their recovery took time but they are fine. Can’t be more grateful for their enduring spirit. Touché, I’m thankful for my Father’s resilience, of staying alone and managing everything on…
Balanced Flow: #WordOfTheYear | #WOTY2022
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.” – Lao Tzu Balance (noun) – “Stability found at the centre of acceptance.”
Good News: #WordlessWednesday #WednesdayWisdom
Ann Frank’s story is such a wonderful reminder in these tough times, to hold on to hope. To believe in the goodness within us and that of one another. The world is going through tough, turbulent times. There is mass unrest, lives being lost, political friction, pandemic woes, mental health issues on a rise, devastations and despair. Yet there are instances of hope. And today I choose to share a few hopeful instances that have added meaning to…
Garden Love: #ThursdayTreeLove
“”To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn