Here's a few pictorial thoughts to start your new year right.

Remember that you are the captain of your own fate:


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I am sitting in my clean apartment, sipping Irish breakfast tea. There is incense burning and my cranberry candle, I'm cuddled in my kimono bathrobe, my laundry is folded and put away ( Read more... )

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we would find in each person's life sorrow and
suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-Longfellow

To understand all is to forgive all. -French proverb ( Read more... )

"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

A good thought to check my attitude with at the start of this new month.
It reminded me somehow of the first stanza of the 13th chapter of the Tao Te Ching:

"Favor and disgrace make one fearful ( Read more... )

I feel like love is overwhelming me, like it's flowing out of me the past few days in storms. I feel like everyone should be told all those true things you for some reason put off telling them, that burning bridges should be put out, that I want to give everyone a gerbera daisy and a hug. Although I think I am in general an affectionate person, I ( Read more... )