Quotes

The still small voice from within brings joy and peace.

Edgar Cayce reading 610-1

Sometimes you don’t need to look far for the daily inspiration you didn’t know you needed….

The universe is within you. Bright and beautiful.

This morning’s Yogi Tea Bag tag

May your day be bright and beautiful!

With Love, Blessings, and Peace

“So what is bringing you inspiration? Do something that inspires you, one thing at least daily, to breed more inspiration into your life.”

~Gabby Bernstein

If you have never listened to or heard of Gabby, you need to stop what you are doing now (just kidding) and find one of her podcasts. She is an amazing motivational speaker. She is a genuine human being who has a lot of personal experiences she shares.

I was listening to her this morning and the above excerpt spoke to me, so I thought I would share. I hope her inspiration to me is my inspiration to you.

Have a fabulous day!

With Love, Blessings, and Peace

We are a week into the new year and I am so excited to see what good things will unfold in 2023! 

2022 was my painful growth year, thus, the lack of postings.  It was a roller coaster ride with some situations that rocked my world.  I have been extremely blessed that it has been a really long time since I have had to deal with something (never mind multiples) of that magnitude.

I am a project solver,  so when the first event occurred my natural reaction was to put time limits on myself to get through it and move forward.  Yes, I know, not the best way to cope.  And, yes, I had some Angels in my life remind me that real life isn’t that simple.  

I gave myself over to the situations, allowed myself the grace to FEEL and take the time that each situation needed to understand, rationalize, make peace, and move forward.  My synopsis sounds simple, but trust me, it was a bumpy ride (and at times downright ugly).

I am not spilling my “cryptic tea” for sympathy but to remind whoever reads this:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

And to my Angels, THANK YOU for carrying me when I need it.

Love, Peace and Blessings

I am sure you have heard the question, “How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.”  Well, today is my day of taking a few bites into some neglected areas in my office.  In all honesty, I know I won’t eat the elephant in one sitting, but I am happy to say I am making a dent.  

When I was moving around some items, I came across an old fortune cookie fortune.  I must have kept it  because it spoke to me.

All great things had small beginnings.

Think about it.

With Love, Blessings, and Peace

There are so many things that can get in our way on the daily, sometimes hourly.  It is how we respond to those nasty instigators that will define your hour, day, week(s), month(s) or even year(s).  

In my prior life, I was part of a training called Six Sigma and if I am not mistaken (I have not been able to verify it online) one phrase we were told was to “check your weather”.   Now this had nothing to do with looking out the nearest window, but everything about your mood and attitude.  Mood and attitude can define your interaction with others.  

In recruiting (and in any part of life really), if you are having a lousy day because you spilled coffee on yourself, that lousy day “weather” could possibly flow into a conversation with the next person you encounter.  Unfortunately, if you let it, that lousy moment will set the mood for your entire day. 

We all have those days, weeks, months – I am no different.  Sh*t happens.  It wouldn’t be life if it didn’t.  However, I do my best to try to keep my day as peaceful and positive as I can.  

A dear friend told me of something she recently heard – 

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

― Lao Tzu

My wish for you today, and always, is that you find peace, joy and positivity in every day.   

With Love, Blessings and Peace

Oh, and here is a picture of my peaceful sunrise this morning….

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

~Charlotte Bronte

This word has been cropping up in my life over the past few months…a lot.

Everyone is on their own journey.  Remember that.  

Our paths may cross but our journeys will only be our own.  Like our fingerprints, they are individualized experiences.  I believe journeys are lessons we are meant to learn while we are on earth.  

When I think of my journey I picture it as a road filled with straightaways, crooked s curves, smooth, filled with potholes or like a rollercoaster, with peaks and valleys. Each part of the road identifies a season in life; easy, happy, excited, scared, sad, grief, confusion…you get where I am going.

Recently, the road on my journey felt like I was driving on a mountain road with repeated blind curves, dodging potholes, and dangerously close to the edge while approaching a huge bridge spanning over a valley.   It was an unsettling feeling filled with lots of emotions…(If you know me, I don’t care for heights, mountain drop-offs or bridges at all).

When the journey gets bumpy, you can’t really put an estimate on when it will smooth out (trust me on this one….I’ve tried and failed).  You need to trust and have faith that it will.  In my experience, when that crazy mountainous road smooths out and is back to flat land, it is freeing.  I am able to find my joy and peace once again.  

Look out world, I am back!

I have been taking pictures for as long as I can remember.  Way before the digital camera, I recall having a 110 camera with a cube flash bulb, an automatic Kodak 35 millimeter camera and my manual Nikon 35 millimeter.  I know I have had other cameras, but when I got my manual Nikon, I was hooked.

Over time I have no idea how much money I spent on developing film.  I sometimes felt like I was an honorary member at the little Fotomat huts in the parking lots of malls.  When they went away I started sending away to a photo developing service.  I would wait for days, sometimes weeks, to excitedly open the envelope of photographs hoping they weren’t blurry, blank, filled with people having red eyes, or that I somehow completely missed the shot.  

The anticipation of waiting for the returned pictures eventually lessened when film processing evolved to onsite locations.  All you would need to do is pay extra money for one hour developing at the local drug store. 

It is all about trying to preserve memories in a perfect shot.

I like being able to manually focus the camera on my subject. When I was blessed to go to Europe in 2000, I schlepped my manual camera everywhere.  Back then, I was still using rolls of film.  I can’t remember how many I took with me and developed when I returned stateside – for some reason 24 sticks in my mind.  I was a wanna be photographer (I still am).

I held out for as long as I could making the transition to the digital camera.  Hubs bought my first one (come to think of it, he has always bought my digital cameras).  It was a small point and shoot which I used mostly around the ranch taking pictures of our critters.  

It wasn’t long after getting the point and shoot that Hubs upgraded my camera to one that had a manual option. 

Even though just about everyone has access to cameras on their phones, my Nikon is very seldom out of reach.