Have you heard that laughter is the best medicine? On its surface that may sound flip & you may ask what does that mean? Will laughing at something makes it all better? Does laughter heal hurt feelings or rights a wrong? The answer is no it won’t do that. What laughter does however, is gives…
Memories
Experience hopefully teaches us those valuable lessons that we can call upon later in life when facing similar circumstances. In a perfect world everyone would be wise, kind & caring. In a perfect world we would know the problems in our future and tend to them before they became problems. In a perfect world we…
Thanks
There is always something to be thankful for.
National Cancer Suvivors Day
Today is National Cancer Survivors Day. A day to celebrate those who have fought cancer, those who have lost their battle, those who have waged the war on this deadly disease and pretty much anyone who has been affected by it. When you think about it in those terms, today is a day to be…
The Non-coincidental Coincidence
Life has a funny way of presenting coincidence. There are some who say coincidence is just irony, I on the other hand beg to differ. Coincidence in my mind is God's way of putting 'pieces' of life's complications together. Tonight I attended a long time friends nuptials. For someone who has never been married, the…
Everyone is pretty much the same…
I blog, I tweet, I stumble, I Pin and I Facebook. I spend hours 'connecting' with the world through my computer. Friends from yesteryear as well as new ones, the internet has given people an international audience to promote causes, share lives, seek new friendships and reconnect with old ones. The things I write about have…
Happy Birthday Mom!
October 24th is my mother's birthday. She turned 85 years old today and my family is very blessed to still have her and my dad with us. My mother is suffering from issues and at her age she is not alone, but generally she is fine. How do you celebrate a birthday when you turn…
A leopard cannot change its spots…
People are people and this world is filled with lots of them. Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers the list goes on and on. Life is full of constant introductions and interactions with others. There are people we like, people we tolerate and people we love. While philosophers have spent the ages trying to figure out the meaning of life,…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What one person sees as beautiful someone else sees differently. Life has the same way of making one person feel one way and someone else another. When I was twenty something beauty to me was significantly different from what I now see as beautiful. We live in a society…
Motivation
Motivation comes from within. Our lives keep us moving towards goals and our aspirations get us there. It is when we really want something that we work the hardest. Complacency gets you no where, yet motivation can move mountains. I have devoted the past ten years to my pet project The Honeysuckle Foundation for Children…