Note to Self

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“If you are not doing what you love, 

you are wasting your time.”

— Billy Joel

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Wholehearted Living

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Wholehearted living is about engaging in our
lives from a place of worthiness. It means
cultivating the courage, compassion, and
connection to wake up in the morning and
think, No matter what gets done and how
much is left undone; I am enough.

It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am
imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes
afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth
that I am also brave and worthy of love
and belonging.

 

~Brené Brown

What are you Thankful for?

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....and for every day,

I say to the universe and to my maker

"Thank You"

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to everyone we know....

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Lessons...

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What Else is There?

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Joy

Courage

Humility

Compassion

There.  That should help get us thru the weekend.

Happy Friday!!!

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More choices...

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been there. done that.  moving the bleep on.

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TAKE A CHANCE AND DON'T LOOK BACK

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Stepping Away.

Leaving a part of her behind

in order to move on.

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Baby steps but starting to feel very comfortable.

Time does heal the frayed edges.  

Thank God.

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Happy Birthday, Georgia

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At the close of this blog page is

The Georgia O'Keefe Art Collection

because I admire the woman, her life's story

and am still awed by her work.

photo by Irving Penn

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. New York Times critic, Jed Perl, in 2004 described her paintings as both "bold and hermetic, immediately appealing and unnervingly impassive." She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.

painting by Clair Hartmann

via Clair Hartmann

It is my honour, Mrs. O'Keefe

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This Was Home....I Will Return, if Only to Visit

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   Golden Gate via Sylvia

 

“And in you and in all of us, there is nothing more than the capacity to be a force for, or a force against. And to wonder, how many people wake up each morning and can’t decide if they want to save the world, or destroy it.”

via twentythree/

I Wrote This for You: The 5:45 Home

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Inspired is a State of Thinking

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via Kal Barteski

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be The Real You

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“Other people’s opinion of you 

does not have to become your reality.”

— Les Brown

via twentythree

woof

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The Process

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“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; 

a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”

— Mohandas Gandhi 

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Need a Reminder...

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...be good to yourself...your whole self needs it!

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Downstate

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Indian Summer in Michigan

via flickrpaulh192

Mmmmm

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Gaaasp: Snow!

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Awww...lookey how beautiful...

my beloved Leland had it's first lake effect snow of 2010

This town is Currier and Ives in Winter

Be still my heart.

via thelelandreport

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Erased

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Goodbye

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A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime

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A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime

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A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime

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A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or
a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you
will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is
usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have
come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you
with guidance and support, to aid you physically,
emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a
godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason
you need them to be.

Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an
inconvenient time, this person will say or do something
to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die.
Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our
desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you
sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON . . .
Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount
of joy. Believe it! It is real! But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things
you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional
foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the
person, and put what you have learned to use in all
other relationships and areas of your life. It is said
that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Author Unknown

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