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🌟🌿🌟🌿🌟“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”🌟🌿🌟🌿🌟

HOLLYWOOD- Can you believe it was 47 years ago that Elvis Presley died, on August 16, 1977. I’m almost 100 percent sure that if you are of a certain age, you remember exactly where you were on that tragic day when you heard the news. So many decades have passed yet he is just asContinue reading “Elvis Remembered!”

🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸”A day is not lost if you failed to tick off a list, or a diet was broken.A day is only lost if you forgot to say something kind to yourself, or another.If you forgot to pause and search for a tiny spark of beauty amongst the drudgery, glimmering like gold in the mud.A dayContinue reading “A gift!”

🌷🌿🌷🌿🌷“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful forContinue reading “Beautiful!”

🍓🌿🍓🌿🍓”Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields… and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?”🍓🌿🍓🌿🍓

💜🌿💜🌿💜“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Never give up!”

“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelousto be understood.How grass can be nourishing in themouths of the lambs.How rivers and stones are foreverin allegiance with gravitywhile we ourselves dream of rising.How two hands touch and the bonds willnever be broken.How people come, from delight or thescars of damage,to the comfort of a poem.Let me keepContinue reading “Comfort!”

HOLLYWOOD- Everyone enjoys drinking, especially social drinking. Alcohol induces euphoria, relaxation, while reducing stress and anxiety. By consuming alcohol there is increased endorphin activity in brain regions. Some even think of alcohol as a social lubricant. Some celebrities have chosen to live a sober lifestyle. Anne Hathaway opened up about her drinking a few monthsContinue reading “Celebrities and Drinking!”

🐶🌿🐶🌿🐶🌿“I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.”🐶🌿🐶🌿🐶

🧡🌿🧡🌿🧡”Instead of saying, “I know what it feels like”, let’s say “I cannot imagine your heartbreak”. Instead of saying, “You’re strong, you’ll get through this, let’s say ” You’ll hurt, and I’ll be here. Instead of saying, “You look like you’re doing well, Let’s say, “How are you holding up today?” Instead of saying, “HealingContinue reading “You are Strong!”