Sometimes the ordinary can be extraordinary. Lowly landscape flowers shine in otherwise flowerless gardens; wet paint vibrates with energy creating liquid sculptures; one person helps another and both lives improve. There are many things that exist and happen in our everyday lives that we deem ordinary, but when reflected upon, they are truly quite extraordinary! [...]
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/17/12)
Posted in Aging, Art and Crafts, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged advice for women over fifty, blog, calories, Fab 50, food portions, Helping Others, inspiration, life, life is art, liquid paint sculptures, Martin Klimas, Miguel Angel Ruiz quote, National Heart Lung and blood Institute, ordinary and extraordinary things, over fifty, painting with sound, photo of the year, portion distortion, super sized food, super-sized, Women over 50, women over fifty, World Press Photo on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/10/12)
Posted in Community, Creativity, Health, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged accepting others, Arches National Park, Art House Co-Op, blog, Bryce Canyon, creative community projects, Helping Others, human similarities, images of the Milky Way, inspiration, Joseph Campbell quote, joy, Letters to Home, life, Milky Way, moods are contagious, Photography, romanesco, romanesco broccoli, Royce Blair, spread the mood, The Meal, the Sketchbook Project, Utah, Utah National Parks on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The world’s other 6,993,541,793 human inhabitants are more like you than you think. People’s emotions, actions and reactions are not so different from one part of the world to another. Cultural and religious customs do exist, but smiling, kissing, and hugging are among the many emotional gestures people around the world share. So the next [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/3/12)
Posted in Aging, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, Jewelry, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged Audrey Hepburn quote, blog, brain games, computer game, crocheting with newspaper, healthy snacks, healthy Super Bowl snack, life, life's regrets, quesadillas, Recipes, recycling newspaper, regrets, Super Bowl snacks, the game you can't stop, what are you made of on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stones, tumbled by the sea, collect on the shore. The waters have worn some smooth and round, while others remain irregular and pockmarked. That they existed in the same turbulent waters, but weathered the forces differently, can only be attributed to their individual compositions and, perhaps, the length of exposure. If you were one of [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (1/13/12)
Posted in Creativity, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, inspiration, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged advertising deception, benjamin franklin quote, blog, Creativity, fast food, Helping Others, inspiration, jigsaw puzzles, music painting, national geographic, New Year resolutions, online jigsaw puzzles, Photography, rainbow walkway on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
New Year resolutions speak of hopes, dreams, and new starts, but shouldn’t every morning bring with it the same potential? Why wait a day, a month, or 12 months to start something new or to create the life you want? There will never be a better time than now to eat better, to sharpen your [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (12/23/11)
Posted in About me, Creativity, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Pets, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged blog, christmas cards, e-greetings, food safety, foods dogs and cats should not eat, holiday greetings, holiday pet safety, holiday thoughts, inspiration, Lao tzu quote, peace, pet poisons, snowflakes on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Christmas tree glimmers with joy and cheer, and colorful stockings hang by very near. The pantry’s filled with an indulgent load, ’cause the kids are home and in a snacking mode. Snippets of red ribbon cover the floor, but the greatest gifts given are those to the poor. Now is the time to give [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (11/4/11)
Posted in Uncategorized, Health, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Entertainment, tagged random thoughts, blog, inspiration, life, Helping Others, brain games, good in life, spread kindness, sporcle, fake smiles, soaking dried mushrooms on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The ever-increasing tales of the world’s woes often overshadow the good in the world. The good in life isn’t always monumental and can be easily ignored compared to the attention-grabbing bad. Is it a matter of the “squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The good in life is often the sum total of everyday small joys, [...]
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