For Those Moments When You Need To Move!

When feeling lazy and unmotivated, I turn to this song.

I dare you to not start moving.

And today I need to move.

Nothing In The Room

A friend on facebook shared this. I thought it was thought it was worth sharing as well.

 

You Are More Beautiful

Grab a tissue...


and remember....
You are more beautiful than you think.

Prayers to Boston

Such a sad day for the human race. I really don't have much to say. Today reminded me of how I felt on Sept. 11th. I was pregnant with my first child. What I remember most from that day was feeling like I had made a huge mistake. Bringing another life into a world where there are people who do terrible things like this to others. I cried all the way home from work.
I have a good friend who told me that we had to have children and raise them to be loving and caring human beings. That if we did this it would help to balance the bad ones. So when moments like today happen I think about that too. And know that I will always feel a pinch of guilt for having children grow up seeing this, but I will also have HOPE. Hope that what they do in this world will not only balance things, but just maybe tip them in the direction of peace, and love. Thanks for reading. Much love and light to anyone who is suffering right now.

The Tree Lovers

I was straightening out a drawer today and came across my card collection. I find beautiful cards that I believe I will one day frame....best laid plans.

Anyway, in amongst them was a paper with a poem on it. There is no author listed on the sheet.

I wanted to share the poem cause I am in love with it. If you know who wrote it....please let me know so I can give credit where it is due.

The Tree Lovers

They grew in the fringe of woodland at the foot of the homestead hill,
Where ran like a silver ribbon a dimpling summer rill -
A spruce and a leafy maple - so close together they grew
That hardly a lance of sunlight might pierce their greenness
through.

Their mingled branches swaying cast ever a cooling shade
O'er the strip of emerald grassland where the happy children
played,
And a slender lad and thoughtful, with dreamy eyes of blue,
Said the tree was a maple maiden and the spruce her lover true.

The fancy pleased the children, as fancies children will,
For it gave them a sense of friendship with the trees below the hill:
As if the spruce and the maple had a life to their own akin,
And beneath their bark imprisoned beat human hearts within.

They saw how the maple nestled to the spruce's sheltering side,
As his rugged green arms clasped her with fond protecting pride.
He the taller and stronger; she the more graceful tree,
And never could human lovers more kind and faithful be.

When the winter snows were silver, and the winter winds
were keen,
The gray-cloaked bride was leafless but the sturdy spruce was green;
And when the springtime rapture thrilled all the woodlands
through,
The tender tints of maple were blent with his somber hue.

All through the days of summer they talked and whispered low,
While the gentle west-winds wavered their branches to and fro;
And in the autumn the little maple, in her splendor of crimson gay,
Stood proudly close to her lover in his rugged and dark array.

The children have grown and wandered from the ken of the homestead hill,
But the trees through seasons many are green and faithful still.
Still nestles the little maple to her knightly lovers side,
And still the spruce tree shelters with his mighty arms his bride.

Though the winter winds are biting, but the closer drawn are they,
As fond as when summer sunbeams among their branches play:
Time passes o'er them as lightly as it does o'er the ribbon rill,
There, as each season passes, at the foot of the homestead hill.
 

You Take The Good.....You Take The Bad!

You take them both and there you have The Facts of Life!

I got the best surprise last night!

Netflix Canada has The Facts of Life!

How sweet is that?

I know that I am not the only one who grew up watching Natalie, Tootie, Blair and Jo.

My favourite character was Jo, I really wanted to be like her. She was tough and not easily swayed by peer pressure. Of course we eventually learn she has a softer side.

Funny enough though, my favourite episode doesn't have Jo in it.

I really liked the episode where Mrs Garret holds a sex education class even though the headmaster objects. They always seemed to deal with real life topics early on. 

A quality that many shows just don't or didn't have.

So tell me who did you most identify with?

Do you have a favourite episode?

Have You Heard of Alabama Shakes?....You Have Now!

I am really enjoying Alabama Shakes....thought you might too.

Brittany Howard has an amazing voice.

Truly.