July 2,3, and now 4th

thank you, again, Maura

 gotta love, Katie Daisy and Spirit of a Hippie

Celebrate! Google style. Kind of reminds me of my family when we all get together. :)

Duck Donuts for the D!

Escazu visit this week, and then remembered this post from Angela :)

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
 ~ Gibran

"Happy 4th from H and M, P and Q!"

July 4th 2016

Ken's daughter Caroline is now Andy's wife and Violet's Mom (and also Pat's daughter, Jess and Tra's sister, my niece, etc. :)

"Leafpeeping" LOVE!!

My kind of fireworks :)

"Nothing happens by chance, no one goes on a quest without a reason, without the pull of the magnet there is no action." ~ Rumi

One Human Family's post from earlier this week contained a very important reminder: 

Pets are finally feeling better

Quite the family photo! so very blessed

Reunion of sorts

Smiling faces of family xoxoxox

Take those "Tree pauses". They really do work wonders. Thank you for the reminder, Gunilla Norris

Unusually low-key day for me

Very grateful for my friends and family, our home and our pets

"We learn by going where we need to go, but it requires a bit of imagination, too: my subject for July." ~ Gunilla Norris

relaXing on this cloudy day, and loving it. I may even nap - who knows. :)

You made us all giggle, Terri, thank you :)

Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

...[A]n abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists..." ~  One Writer's

Beginnings, Eudora Welty, qtd. by Lee Smith 

"Culture" part of the preface p. xi

Eudora Welty : "luminous, lit from within" p.67

Fusion? or simply marble cake? :) p. 67

"God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney

Hush puppies : "tossed to the hounds around the campfire to keep them quiet." p. 37

I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE THE WHOLE TIME DOING THIS BOOK.

 ~ Lee Smith qtd. in N and O

"[J]itterbugging wildly to ... Hank Williams..." p. 54 "Just go for it." p. 146

"...Kiss of the sun for pardon / The song of the birds for mirth / I am nearer God's heart in a garden / Than anywhere else on earth." ~ "God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney qtd. p.10

Lee Smith: A life spent developing character" by BY MARY E. MILLER

My favorite photo of Lee Smith, from the rafting trip during the "girls" era:

 from N and O article

"...[N]obody notices. p. 132

"[O]ur recipes tell us everything about us: where we live, what we value, how we spend our time." p.35

"... the [P]ossibility of change must arise" p.83

"Quality of freedom to be themselves which they wish to have." p.145

"Recipe Box"  photo from N and O article

"The[S]ecret ingredient is love." p. 40

"Thus I learned the position of the omniscient narrator, who sees and records everything, yet is never visible. It was the perfect early education for a fiction writer." p. 4

"I was [U]tterly fearless in those days; I could run like the wind, and hit like a boy." p. 56

"... and [V]enture forth fearlessly into the New South." p. 118
"It is another way of [W]histling past the graveyard." p. 162
"In my own memory, my elegant Aunt Millie was always referred to as an eXecutive secretary" p. 58
"And get [Y]our head out of them clouds, honey. Pay attention." p. 91
"since most of us writers can't be out there living like craZy all the time." p. 167

Joy in Living ... June 29 thru July 2, 2016

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

“Beyond fight or flight, we can 

Choose fortitude in response to life stress.” ~

Dr. Russell Jaffe (paraphrasing Bhanté Dharmawara)

 photo by Mandy Smith

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Friday "Farm day" wipes me out, but in a good way :)

"Garden Guru" thanks Pat!!

Happy, and tired, and very grateful

"Joy in Living: The Alkaline Way" click here for the pdf

Ketogenic information can be found if you click this link

Life effortlessly thrives. 

Maura shared this today  thank you, Maura

Nature's candy all of these beauties can be found at Meredith College's Three Sisters Community Garden

 photo by me :)

Oprah and Deepak : "Getting Unstuck: Creating a Limitless Life!" click here to join me beginning July 11th

Peace and eQuanimity can be part of our lives every day

Russell Jaffe media content can be found here

Salad "recipe" I created for my dinner last night: tomato, basil, kalamata olives, pumpkin seeds, and mango stilton cheese, with olive oil and salt. Amazingly good, and good for me.

"Thanks very much (takk fyrir in Iceland)...You are a goddess!" ~ Michael Novak :)

Unified field of all possibility... Unity of all things - Deepak Chopra

Valerie Lorimer's "Harmony""He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. – Marcus Aurelius

"I am an eXquisite eXpress of nature." ~ today's centering thought. Day 16 Living Nature

Yours in health's JourneY

Zen moment for today:  thank you, Zen Mama