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! [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Helping Others’
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! (1/20/12)
Posted in About me, Community, Gardening, Helping Others, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged blog, Charles Warnke, date a girl who reads, Helping Others, how to help the homeless, inspiration, John Bunyan quote, life, Pinterest, reduce food waste, Repurposing, Rosemarie Urquico, ways to help the homeless, ways to reuse things, you should date an illiterate girl on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was so cold outside that the birds looked all puffed up in their little down jackets. For me, dressing up like Nanook of the North and going out in the freezing cold at midnight is not something I like to do, but the weather forecaster on T.V. said, “There’s going to be a hard [...]
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! (12/16/11)
Posted in Creativity, Gift Ideas, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged blog, check out charities, checking out charities, D.M. Dellinger quote, gifts from the kitchen, Helping Others, holiday gift ideas, inspiration, life is a gift video, recycled bottle Christmas tree, Recycling, whole foods on December 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The holidays are right around the corner: Hanukkah begins on the 21st, Christmas, of course, is on the 25th, and Kwanzaa is on the 26th. There’s still so much to do, so many people to see and so many ways to help others. Check out the links on today’s Friday’s Fresh Five! – help and [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! 12/2/11
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Holidays, inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged Angelina Jolie quote, blog, free holiday printables, free printables, Helping Others, Holstee Manifesto, inspiration, life, random thoughts, rhyming words, smartphone apps, words that rhyme on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are you so busy making lists and checking them twice that you can’t fully enjoy the holidays? With so much to do and so little time, it’s very easy to turn into a holiday robot. Let’s all try to make more time to get out and be with the people we care about and not [...]
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