Love and friendship

We discover ourselves through our relationships with others

I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three.
~ William Blake

Something to think about…

Many of us are presently rebuilding old relationships and searching for new ones, ones that we hope we can protect.  We can’t survive without relationships, some intimate, some close, some casual.  And we discover ourselves through our relationships with others.

The purity of a relationship is directly proportional to the undivided attention we both give to those shared moments, hours, experiences, to being “there” with one another.  This communion with another is the celebration of life and God that quickens hearts and users in serenity.

Source (modified):  Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations

Show them how!

Don’t wait for people to be friendly. Show them how!

You are loved

Hubble Bubble

I saw this beautiful image on Pinterest, and the description that came with it simply said, “Bubble,” with no source identifying the photographer or artist. Interestingly, after performing a reverse image search, I discovered that it’s actually a scientific illustration from an article in The Astronmist. Pretty, isn’t it?

The Astronomist: Hubble Bubble.

A Moment | Phil Koch

A Moment Photograph by Phil Koch

Cheesecake Factory’s White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake

via Chef Mommy: Cheesecake Factory’s White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake.

Top five regrets of the dying

A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life?

Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style | guardian.co.uk.

Maybe next time?

Don’t say, “there’s still time,” or “Maybe next time,” because there’s also the concept of, “It’s too late.”

I saw an article the other day about the top five things that people who are in hospice express that they regret about their lives. I’ll see if I can find that again and post it for you. I was actually surprised by what was NOT in that list.

Marilyn Monroe

Did you know that Marilyn Monroe had an IQ of 168, higher than Albert Einstein, whose IQ was 160?

 Marilyn Monroe.

Close your car windows!

A reminder to close your windows and sunroof when there’s a blizzard in the forecast.

Can you even imagine heading outside to clear snow from the top of your car and the driveway, only to find that you first have to shovel out the inside of your car?

For All the Lonely Hearts

Excerpt:  Are you spending this Valentine’s Day alone? We hope you take heart in the knowledge that most of us have spent a Valentine’s Day evening – or two or more – by ourselves. Maybe we moped about it – or worse – gone out and done something we regret like awoken with a hangover next to a complete stranger. Perhaps we stayed home, curled into a ball on the couch with a box of tissues, eating ice cream and watching An Affair to Remember or Titanic for the umpti-ninth time. Maybe we played video games with strangers well into February 15th, or surfed the Net for other lonely hearts. For many, loneliness is a singular experience. But the strange thing is: You don’t have to be by yourself to feel lonely…

Solitude versus Loneliness

Sometimes solitude can feel peaceful and calm and at other times it can feel overwhelming with loneliness. Being lonely is even worse if we feel lonesome when we are with others. This paradox can happen when we feel like people around us don’t understand us or don’t really care about us. We can feel isolated and alone in a room full of people, trapped in our mind. This may be hard to believe – but feeling lonely is a choice and to a large degree, our attitude depends on how we view our personal time perspective. If we are stuck in all the bad experiences, mistakes and missed opportunities of the past – we are stuck in our past negatives. This, in turn, makes us feel hopeless in the now – present fatalistic. This one-two punch is a recipe for depression. But it is time for you to land an upper cut to that old foe so it knows there is a new You to contend with.

READ MORE:  For All the Lonely Hearts | Psychology Today.

Puzzle: Determine the 10 original words

In this puzzle, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters. These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice and all of the chunks are used. Can you determine the 10 original words?

via BrainBasher.com

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TEL + ESC + OPE = TELESCOPE
TIM + ETA + BLE = TIMETABLE
HAI + RBR + USH = HAIRBRUSH
DIF + FER + ENT = DIFFERENT
WAT + ERF + ALL = WATERFALL
LIG + HTN + ING = LIGHTNING
HEA + DLI + GHT = HEADLIGHT
WHI + RLW + IND = WHIRLWIND
CAR + TIL + AGE = CARTILAGE
NEW + SAG + ENT = NEWSAGENT

Your five senses

If you knew you had to give up one of your five senses, which would you choose?  Can you explain why?

 
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Which half?

Smart is when you believe half of what you hear.  Brilliant is when you know which half.
~ Robert Orben

Beautiful ladybug image

Did you know?

So, I’m just sitting here…

So, I’m just sitting here and the whole dang thing explodes!  I’m just as surprised as you are.

Oh-oh! They just went to ALL CAPS.

Note: Typing in all caps is supposed to mean the typist is shouting.

Donald Duck following an unperturbed duck family

via FB Editography

Big hearts

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.
~ Anthony Douglas Williams

Light Festival in Thailand

This must be spectacular to see in person!

 
via FB Art & Design

Fantasy tree

The scarf

Today is a new day!

Something to think about…

Today stands before us, ready for our involvement.  And it will offer us opportunities for personal growth and occasions to help another make progress on his or her path to the future.  Challenges are to be expected.  They further our purpose.  They foster our maturity.

How different it is, for many of us, to look forward today with secure anticipation, to trust in what the future holds.  We can still remember, all too vividly perhaps, the darker periods in our lives, periods that seemed to hold no promise; a time when we dreaded the future, fearing it would only compound those awful times.

The fear and the dread are not gone completely.  They hover about us, on occasion.  They no longer need to darken all of a day, however.  We can recognize their presence as parts of our whole, not all of it.  How free we are, today.  Our choices are many.

Source (modified):  Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations