Happy New Year, again... Jan 8, 2017

Art, Blog, Peace, Beauty... "Love, Peace, and Santa" by Patricia Saxton 

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things." ~ Maya Angelou

Chicken soup is, indeed, good for the soul.

Dining with the Gilmore Girls

 ~ Art by Jill Lambert 

Feed Your Mind: You are in control of What Enters Your Head - Stand Guard!

 "Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul...Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your life. " ~ John O'Donohue Eternal Echoes

Honoring the place and space in which I find myself at this very moment.

"It's always now. It's the now that's eternal - actually." ~ David Hockney

James Joyce's epiphany was the sudden 'revelation of the whatness of a thing,' the moment in which 'the soul of the commonest object...seems to us radiant.' 

Kendall stole the best seat in the house, again: 

"Listen to the voices of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers...Listen to your memory and to the inrush of your future, to the voices of those near you and those you have lost." ~ John O'Donohue Eternal Echoes 

"Make a prayer that is big enough for your wild soul, yet tender enough for your shy and awkward vulnerability; that has enough healing to gain the ointment of divine forgiveness for your wounds; enough truth and vigour to challenge your blindness and complacency; enough graciousness and vision to mirror your immortal beauty."  ~ John O'Donohue Eternal Echoes

Novel Matters  Nice reading spot

"Outrageous Happiness: One Thought at a Time" by Patricia Saxton

Patricia Saxton : 52 Weeks of Peace :

“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.” ~ David Bowie would've been 70 today. Here are his wonderful answers to the Proust Questionnaire:

"Rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken" ~ William Carlos Williams qtd. by Jean Jackson,
 April 28, 2005 Academic and Leadership Awards Ceremony. posted to Facebook by me Jan 8, 2012

“Stand guard at the door of your mind.” ~ Jim Rohn

Treasures: "The A's have it! Love this one, too!!!" Antoinette, thank you, three years later, and I still agree wholeheartedly xo

"Through our eyes, the Universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the Universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the Universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. ~ Alan W. Watts

Video from YouTube: The Mind - Alan Watts

"Write a prayer that is worthy of the destiny to which you have been called." ~ John O'Donohue Eternal Echoes

"Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss"  can be found at Brain Pickings, but shared by Julie Burke. Thank you, Julie

Zest Bakery's Facebook status : "In the bakery today till the snowflakes tell us otherwise...❄️"