My mother is not surprised that her children are well-off. Her two daughters are business executives. Her oldest son is a lawyer. She predicted it all long ago. “Someday,” she used to say when we were young, “you will all grow up and all be very rich. You’ll have lots of money to buy me presents. But I’ll be a little old lady. I won’t have any ( Read more... )

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"If you think you're enlightened, spend a week with your family"

(Ram Daas)

Elizabeth Gilbert

This one never grows old!

Let's give thanks for all the people who we love and need, and who drive us crazy, and who share our weird crazy history, and who always manage to push our buttons, and who we sometimes can't figure out how we could possibly be ( Read more... )

Happy Father's Day to all fathers! Here's a song about dads: "Daddy can do anything"
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 Picture originally posted by levkonoe at Robert Duncan "Good Memories"

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First time I've heard this in Russian:
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"MY MOTHER'S GARDEN"

Her heart is like her garden,
Old fashioned, quaint and sweet,
With here a wealth of blossoms,
And there a still retreat.
Sweet violets are hiding,
We know as we pass by,
And lillies, pure as angel thoughts,
Are opening somewhere nigh.

Forget-me-nots there linger,
To full perfection brought,
And there bloom purple pansies
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Why I'm Here
by Jacqueline Berger

Because my mother was on a date
with a man in the band, and my father,
thinking she was alone, asked her to dance.
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Originally posted by levkonoe at Marius van Dokkum - "В ногу со временем"

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Originally posted by levkonoe at Diane Dengel - еще одна умильная картинка-валентинка

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